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Anna Justine Steiger (born 13 February 1960 [1] [2]) is a British and American opera singer who has sung leading soprano and mezzo-soprano roles in British, European and North American opera houses. She has sung many recitals at festivals which have been broadcast live on the BBC, Radio France and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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Steiger was married five times, and had a daughter, opera singer Anna Steiger, and a son, Michael Steiger. He died of pneumonia and kidney failure as a result of complications from surgery for a gallbladder tumor in 2002, aged 77, in Los Angeles. His fifth wife was Joan Benedict Steiger.
Her first marriage, in 1959, was to actor Rod Steiger, whom she met when they both performed in the play Rashomon. [45] Their daughter is opera singer Anna Steiger. [45] [28] Steiger and Bloom divorced in 1969. [28] In that same year, Bloom married producer Hillard Elkins. [46] The marriage lasted for three years, and the couple divorced in 1972.
Those singers whose birth year is unknown are sorted by the first year that they are known to have flourished. This list should not include singers who have never performed in a staged opera with the exception of historic non-white singers who were barred from the opera stage in varying parts of the world due to discrimination prior to the mid ...
The Met dropped the Russian soprano from future engagements shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Star soprano Anna Netrebko sues Met Opera over its decision to cut ties over ...
L'heure espagnole is a French one-act opera from 1911, described as a comédie musicale, with music by Maurice Ravel to a French libretto by Franc-Nohain, based on Franc-Nohain's 1904 play ('comédie-bouffe') of the same name [1] [2] The opera, set in Spain in the 18th century, is about a clockmaker whose unfaithful wife attempts to make love to several different men while he is away, leading ...
A concert version was presented from July 12–21, 1989 by Opera on the Move in the Queen Elizabeth Hall at the Southbank's Latin American Festival, "Viva!", with Anna Steiger in the title role and Odaline de la Martinez conducting, [11] while the European staged premiere was given by the Bielefeld Opera in 1991. [12]