Cynthia Haymon

This American soprano, who found international prominence in the first Glyndebourne Festival production of Porgy and Bess, was ready for stardom, having been thoroughly schooled at among America’s leading universities. An apprenticeship at Santa Fe as well as the name role within an essential globe premiere preceded her triumph in the Gershwin opera, an event unlike anything previously noticed in the Sussex music event. Gifted with a considerable and supple lyric device, she’s also excelled in French, Italian, and German functions, pleasing viewers in European countries and America and specifically endearing herself towards the London general public. Among nine children given birth to to Reverend and Mrs. John T. Haymon, Cynthia Haymon started performing in her father’s chapel, the New Wish Baptist Chapel in Clay Region, FL. At that time, she experienced no notion a profession in music may be a chance. The elder Haymons had been supportive of their kids and everything nine siblings liked a university education. For Cynthia, 2 yrs of research at Florida Community University in Jacksonville had been followed by a qualification from Northwestern College or university, in which a music prize and scholarship or grant allowed her to full her level in 1984. After further research in NY, she was involved in 1984 as an apprentice on the Santa Fe Opera, where she got the chance to take part in a number of important productions. The American premiere of Henze’s We Arrive towards the River discovered her in a role, but also for Orphée aux Enfers, she was cast as Diana and in Strauss’ Die Liebe der Danae (a seldom performed function, but an integral one in the business’s traversal from the composer’s full dramatic functions) she sang the component of Xanthe. The next season brought Haymon her initial taste of superstar when she was cast in the name function of Thea Musgrave’s Harriet, THE GIRL Called “Moses” using the Virginia Opera. Haymon earned good reviews as well as the opera was eventually recorded, evolving her popularity beyond American edges. In 1986, Simon Rattle released Glyndebourne viewers to Porgy and Bess within a creation that ensemble Haymon as Bess opposing Jamaican bass Willard Light, already a skilled Porgy. The creation earned spectacular reviews as well as the documenting that adopted substantiated the nice words critics provided for the live creation. Since that now-legendary creation, Haymon has generated herself like a lyric soprano suitable to many Puccini heroines, earning commendations on her behalf Mimi and Liu. Glyndebourne asked her back again for Eurydice in 1989 and she’s loved successes in European countries, notably at Munich and Hamburg, aswell as with Japan. For Seattle, she’s sung Susanna and Micaëla, with the Florentine Opera in Milwaukee, she was involved for Hänsel in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel. Wedded to tenor/pianist Barrington Coleman, whom she fulfilled through the Glyndebourne Porgy and Bess, Haymon resides in Illinois, where her spouse is a university or college professor. Sometimes, they have made an appearance together in applications of arias and duets. As well as the Gershwin and Musgrave operas, Haymon continues to be featured on the documenting of Michael Tippett’s A KID of Our Period aimed by Richard Hickox and offering her Glyndebourne co-workers Cynthia Clarey, Damon Evans, and White colored. Haymon can be an influencing Mimi in Chandos Information’ English-language documenting of La bohème.