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I was very saddened today to read of the death yesterday of Lorraine Hunt Lieberson.

http://tinyurl.com/hpr22

I have thought of her as a very special performer since I first saw her as Donna Elvira in the Peter Sellars production of Don Giovanni. Really , in my book, she was one of the truly great singers of today

Hunt Lieberson took her career down those avenues that were important to her, she didn't only go after high profile gigs.

Her early death leaves an unfillable gap in the Met production of Orfeo, due to be directed by Mark Morris next season

She fought battles with her health for several years now.

RIP

Richard

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O Lord this is a shock.

Yes, one knew that Ms Lieberson was ill -- but gone?

Those of us in Berkeley remember her WHEN.... when she was Lorraine Hunt. She went to Berkeley High. THere's been a great early-music scene here for four decades, and she was part of it. Modest in temperament, greatly gifted in talents.

Am I hallucinating, or didn't she sing Dido at the first performances of Morris's "Dido and Aeneas" here in Zellerbach Playhouse? I remmeber listening to the singer as often as i watched the dancer, whoever he was, kept looking at his fingernails. And I THINK she was the nightingale In "L'Allegro." (Wonderrfulissima) We heard her all the time, till her international career took off and she wasn't around so much.

What a wonderful talent, what an artist, what a loss.

PS THE New Yorker article is wonderful -- please go read it.

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Very sad. I guess we knew it was coming, with all the cancellations & all, but that doesn't mitigate the loss.

I will always remember her "swimming" across the stage in Purchase as Cleopatra in the Giulio Cesare. She was so all of a piece - mind, body, voice, artistry.

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The obituary in The New York Times has been posted to the website:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/05/arts/mus...r=1&oref=slogin

And an anecdote, in a remembrance by Alex Ross in All the Rest Is Noise of the late Village Voice critic Leighton Kerner:

Someone once jokingly asked him who his favorite Spice Girl was; he answered, "Lorraine Hunt Lieberson."

The AP obituary, as posted in The Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...6070500038.html

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I was very saddened today to read of the death yesterday of Lorraine Hunt Lieberson.

Her early death leaves an unfillable gap in the Met production of Orfeo, due to be directed by Mark Morris next season

She fought battles with her health for several years now.

RIP

Richard

The Metropolitan Opera has announced that next seasons Orfeo performances will be dedicated to Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Taking over the role of Orfeo will be countertenor David Daniels

http://listserv.cuny.edu/Scripts/wa.exe?A2...a-l&T=0&P=14386

(the Opera-L List Serve owner Bob Kosovosky forwarded the press release onto his board

---------- Forwarded message ----------

> T H E M E T R O P O L I T A N O P E R A

> Press Release

>

> Contact: Peter Clark

> Metropolitan Opera

> (212) 870-7457

> pclark@metopera.org <mailto:pclark@metopera.org>

>

>

> The Metropolitan Opera dedicates

> Orfeo ed Euridice performances

> to the memory of Lorraine Hunt Lieberson

>

>

> New York, NY (July 18, 2006) - The Metropolitan Opera will dedicate the May

> 2007 performances of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice to the memory of

> mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. The untimely death of this beloved

> opera singer, who was to have sung the role of Orfeo, has been mourned by

> the international artistic community since her passing on July 3.

> The role of Orfeo, which may be sung by either a mezzo-soprano or a

> countertenor, will be performed by American countertenor David Daniels. He

> will be joined by Lisa Milne (Euridice) and Heidi Grant Murphy (Amor). Met

> Music Director James Levine will conduct and Mark Morris will stage the new

> production, which is funded by a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer J. Thomas,

> Jr., with performances on May 2, 5 (matinee), 9, and 12 (matinee), 2007.

> Peter Gelb, who becomes general manager of the Met on August 1, said,

> "Lorraine Hunt Lieberson's death is a profound loss for the music world.

> Joseph Volpe, James Levine, and the entire Met community join me in

> extending our condolences to Lorraine's husband, Peter Lieberson, and to her

> family, friends, and admirers around the world. We are dedicating the Orfeo

> performances to her memory to commemorate Lorraine's extraordinary artistry

> and tremendous generosity of spirit."

>

> # # #

>

> PRESS DEPARTMENT The Metropolitan Opera Press: 212.870.7457

> press@mail.metopera.org

> Lincoln Center General:

> 212.799.3100 www.metopera.org

> New York, NY 10023 Fax: 212.870.7606

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