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Wendy White
mezzo-soprano
Wendy White is one of America’s favorite mezzo-sopranos. Since her Metropolitan Opera debut in Zeffirelli’s production of La Traviata, conducted by Carlos Kleiber, she has appeared in 40 productions with the company. In a televised “Live from the Met” broadcast of Madama Butterfly, Ms. White was Suzuki and she appeared as Bersi in a new production of Andrea Chenier. She was specially chosen for the Met Tribute to Mirella Freni, singing Suzuki in the third act of Madama Butterfly.Other recent Metropolitan Opera engagements include the title roles of Carmen and of L'Italiana in Algeri, Fenena in Nabucco, Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana, Hostess of the Inn in Boris Godunov, Death in Le Rossignol, Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde, Anna in Les Troyens, Annina in Der Rosenkavalier, Vois de la Mere in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Second Norn in Götterdämmerung, Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro, Margaret in Wozzeck, and Maddalena in Rigoletto.
In her hometown of Chicago, where Ms. White has returned to sing with the Lyric Opera, her appearances have included Susannah in The Ghost of Versailles and Die Zauberflöte, conducted by Leonard Slatkin. She also starred in new productions at Cincinnati Opera (Carmen), Washington Opera (Valencienne in The Merry Widow), Houston Grand Opera (American premiere of Busoni's Arlecchino). She made her Hamburg Opera debut in Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia.
Highlights of her orchestral engagements include Bernstein's Songfest with Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony and the world premiere of Ned Rorem's Goodbye, My Fancy with Leonard Slatkin and the Chicago Symphony. With Maestro Slatkin and the National Symphony she sang Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 and Tchaikovsky’s Pique Dame.She was Baba the Turk in a landmark concert version of The Rake's Progress conducted and recorded by the definitive Stravinsky interpreter Robert Craft at Lincoln Center. Maestro Craft also selected her to record Jocasta in Oedipus Rex and Requiem Canticles, which she also performed at Lincoln Center. Additional highlights include Wozzeck in concert with Christoph von Dohnanyi and the Cleveland Orchestra, both in Cleveland and New York's Carnegie Hall and Mozart's Requiem and Rossini's Petite Messe Solenelle with Netherlands Radio Orchestra.
Wendy White was widely known as one of Leonard Bernstein's favorite mezzo-sopranos. After performing Bernstein's Jeremiah Symphony at the 1986 Tanglewood Festival under the baton of the composer, he chose her to create the leading role of Dinah in the Vienna State Opera's new production of his opera A Quiet Place, which she recorded for DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON. After the composer's death she appeared in tribute concerts in New York and Tanglewood.
Ms. White's recordings include Parsifal and La Traviata for DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON and Luisa Miller for SONY CLASSICAL, all conducted by James Levine; Oedipus Rex, Requiem Canticles and The Rake's Progress with Robert Craft; A Quiet Place with Vienna State Opera and Bernstein for DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON; Songfestwith Maestro Slatkin and St. Louis Symphony for RCA/BMG, and the soundtrack for the American Playhouse Film The Music of Chance, in which she sings French art songs.
Feb 2007
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