Arleen auger biography

Arleen Augér was renowned as a great concert and oratorio soprano, especially esteemed as a Bach interpreter, taking the lion's share of the.
Joyce Arleen Auger was an American coloratura soprano, known for her interpretations of works by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Monteverdi, Mozart, and Schubert.
Arleen Auger was born in South Gate, Calif., on Sept.

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Arleen Auger, 53; Operatic Soprano

Arleen Auger, the Southern California soprano who had to go to Europe to find international fame in opera, the concert stage and recordings, died Thursday in Barneveld, the Netherlands, of cancer. She was 53.

Miss Auger had undergone three operations for a malignant brain tumor last year. She died in the city where she had resided during her illness, said Topper Smith, music administrator of the Los Angeles Music Center Opera, who had been the singer’s friend for more than three decades.

During her career, Miss Auger made more than 120 recordings, including dozens of Bach and Mozart pieces, and sang in opera houses and on concert stages from Vienna to Milan’s La Scala and from Moscow to Los Angeles.

Millions of television viewers around the world saw her sing Mozart’s “Exsultate, Jubilate” at the royal wedding of England’s Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey in 1986.

“Arleen Auger is a paragon,” said Los Angeles Times music critic Martin Bernheimer in reviewing her recital at Pasadena’s Ambassador Auditorium in 1988. “She c

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Arleen Auger

American coloratura soprano (1939-1993)

Joyce Arleen Auger (sometimes spelled Augér; September 13, 1939 – June 10, 1993)^[1] was an American coloratura soprano, known for her interpretations of works by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Monteverdi, Mozart, and Schubert. She won a posthumous Grammy Award for "Best Classical Vocal Performance" in 1994.

Early life and education

Auger was born in South Gate, California and grew up in Huntington Beach.^[2] Her father, Everett Auger,^[3] was a noted minister^[4] who emigrated from Canada with his wife Doris (née Moody).^[5]

As a child, Auger studied voice, violin and piano.^[6]

She received a BA in Education from California State University at Long Beach^[7] in 1963. Her first job was as a kindergarten and first grade teacher.^[8]

Between 1965 and 1967, she studied voice with tenor Ralph Errolle in South Pasadena, California. She continued work as a teacher and took on church and synagogue singing jobs on weekends.^[8]

Career

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The ravishing, crystal-clear, lyric voice of Arleen Auger was stilled on 10 June 1993 when she succumbed to brain cancer. The revered American soprano was 53 years old. A resident of Hartsdale, New York, Joyce Arleen Auger was born on 13 September 1939 in southern California. She sang from the age of two months, long before she would talk. As a child, she began her formal music training in piano and violin. All through elementary and high school she performed as soloist in countless school, community, and church events, and distinguished herself as concertmaster of her high school orchestra. Ms Auger earned a BA in Education from California State University and worked as a kindergarten and first grade teacher after graduation. She studied voice with tenor Ralph Errolle in Illinois and returning to California won first place at the Viktor Fuchs Vocal Competition of Los Angeles. This prize included the airfare to Vienna, Austria, and several modest singing engagements. Equipped with only two coloratura arias and not knowing a word of German, Arleen Auger was 'discovered' and signed b