Dawn Upshaw

Film & TV

Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Dawn Upshaw (born July 17, 1960) is an American soprano. She is the recipient of several Grammy Awards and has released a number of Edison Award-winning discs; she performs both opera and art song, and her repertoire spans Baroque to contemporary. Many composers, including Henri Dutilleux, Osvaldo Golijov, John Harbison, Esa-Pekka Salonen, John Adams, and Kaija Saariaho, have written for her. In…

Known for

• The Greatest Game Ever Played — Soprano2005
• Saariaho: L'Amour de Loin — Clemence2004
• John Adams: El Niño — Soprano2000
• Theodora — Theodora1996
• The Rake’s Progress — Anne Truelove1996
• Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress — Ann1992
• Letter to Peter — Self - Soprano1992
• Don Giovanni — Zerlina1990
• Siegfried — Waldvogel1990
• Ariadne auf Naxos - Metropolitan Opera — Echo1988

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Dawn

Gender

female

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Nashville

Occupation

opera singer

Employer

Bard College

Languages spoken

English language

Genre

opera

Instrument

voice

Record label

Nonesuch Records

Voice type

Soubrette

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