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ALBUMPoulenc: Dialogues des CarmélitesHeidi Brunner, Erik Arman, Magdalena Anna Hofmann, Deborah Polaski, Craig Smith, Christa Ratzenbock, Michelle Breedt, Yann Beuron, Matjaz Robavs, Jean-Philippe Lafont, Sally Matthews, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nenad Marinkovic, Bertrand De Billy, Jurgen Sacher, Dominik Koninger & Hendrickje van Kerckhove
ALBUMWagner: GötterdämmerungDeborah Polaski, Sir John Tomlinson, Robert Bork, Hamburg State Opera Chorus, Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra, Deborah Humble, Petra Lang, Anna Gabler, Simone Young, Katja Pieweck, Christian Franz, Wolfgang Koch, Ha Young Lee, Ann-Beth Solvang, Maria-Cristina Damian & Maria Markina
ALBUMWagner, R.: Die WalkureHellen Kwon, Stuart Skelton, Yvonne Naef, Falk Struckmann, Deborah Polaski, Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra, Deborah Humble, Simone Young, Katja Pieweck, Gabriele Rossmanith, Ann-Beth Solvang, Mikhail Petrenko, Jeanne Piland, Miriam Gordon-Stewart, Maria-Cristina Damian & Renate Singler
ALBUMStrauss, R.: Elektra, Op. 58West German Radio Chorus, Deborah Polaski, Alfred Walker, West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Franz Grundheber, Felicity Palmer, Semyon Bychkov, Twyla Robinson, Susanne Resmark, Graham Clark, Anne Schwanewilms, Christiane Hossfeld, Viola Zimmermann, Margarita de Arellano, Lars Woldt, Irmgard Vilsmaier, Karen Foster, Arnold Bezuyen & Brigitta Svenden
About Deborah Polaski
Artist Biography
American-born, Berlin-based soprano Deborah Polaski is best known for her work in operas by Wagner and Richard Strauss. Her Wagner is extensive: she has sung Senta (The Flying Dutchman), Ortrud (Lohengrin), Isolde, Brünnhilde (Der Ring des Nibelungen), and Kundry (Parsifal). Her roles in Strauss have included Elektra and Ariadne. But her repertory is hardly limited to music by just these two: she has gone as far afield as Janácek (Kostelnicka Buryjovka in Jenufa) and Berg (Marie in Wozzeck). She has also sung roles in Beethoven's Fidelio, Berlioz's Les Troyens, and Wolf-Ferrari's Sly. Polaski has appeared at the Bayreuth Festival on countless occasions: she has sung Brünnhilde in Die Walküre there more times than any other soprano since 1914. While Polaski has appeared at major operatic venues in the U.S., including the Met and Chicago Lyric Opera, she has spent most of her career on European stages: Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Wiener Staatsoper, Covent Garden, and she has appeared in concert in Rome, Paris, Zurich, Tokyo, Sydney, and other major cities. Polaski has appeared on numerous recordings, many of them available from Kultur Video, Opus Arte, Oehms, and Arthaus Musik.
Deborah Polaski was born in Richland Center, WI, on May 26, 1949. As a child she regularly sang in the church where her Protestant minister father was pastor. She studied music at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (1972-1975) with Lucille Evans. Polaski had further studies at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria, with the renowned George London and Irma Cooper.
Polaski debuted in Darmstadt, Germany, in 1984 as Elektra, a role she would go on to sing more than 180 times in her career. Later that same year she sang her first Isolde, in Freiburg. In 1988 she sang Brünnhilde at Bayreuth, beginning her run of 20-plus complete Ring opera appearances there.
In 1992 Polaski debuted at the Met as Kundry and made numerous subsequent appearances there, including as Elektra (2002). She made a highly successful tour with the Met in 2006, singing Brünnhilde (Die Walküre) in Tokyo. In the 2008-2009 season Polaski sang Elektra in a semi-staged performance with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, under Maazel, and portrayed Isolde at the Berlin Staatsoper and made concert appearances in Berlin and Lisbon. Among Polaski's later recordings is her 2009 Oehms four-CD set of Wagner's Die Walküre, on which she sings Brünnhilde.
Hometown
Richland Center, WI, United States
Genre
Classical
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