Roberta Peters






Peters in 1974


Roberta Peters (May 4, 1930 – January 18, 2017) was an American coloratura soprano.


One of the most prominent American singers to achieve lasting fame and success in opera, Peters is noted for her 35-year association with the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York, among the longest such associations between a singer and a company in opera.[1] She was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1998.[2]




Contents






  • 1 Early life and career


  • 2 Personal life


  • 3 Discography


    • 3.1 Studio opera recordings


    • 3.2 Studio recital recordings


    • 3.3 Live Metropolitan Opera broadcasts released on CD by Sony




  • 4 Further reading


  • 5 References


  • 6 External links





Early life and career


Peters was born Roberta Peterman in The Bronx, New York City, the only child of Ruth (née Hersch), a milliner, and Solomon Peterman,[3][4] a shoe salesman. Her family was Jewish.[5] Encouraged by tenor Jan Peerce, she started her music studies at age 13 with William Herman, a voice teacher known for his exacting and thorough teaching method. Under Herman's training, Peters studied the French, German and Italian languages and practiced singing scales from a clarinet method. After six years of training, Herman introduced her to impresario Sol Hurok, who arranged for an audition with Rudolf Bing, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera. Bing asked her to sing the Queen of the Night's second aria from The Magic Flute (with its four Fs above high C), several times, listening from all parts of the hall to make sure she could fill the hall with sound.[1] He scheduled her to sing the role in February 1951.


Peters however made her debut earlier than planned. On November 17, 1950, Bing phoned her asking if she could step in to replace Nadine Conner, who was ill, as Zerlina in Don Giovanni. Peters knew the role, but had not yet ever performed on stage or even sung with a full orchestra; nevertheless, she accepted. Fritz Reiner was the conductor that night. Despite a reputation for being distant and reserved, Reiner made a point of coming to Peters's dressing room to encourage her and guided her through the performance. Her performance was received with great enthusiasm, and her career was established.


Combining an attractive voice with sparkling coloratura agility and good looks, Peters became a favorite of American audiences and a great proponent of opera for the masses. She quickly established herself in the standard soubrette and coloratura repertoire. Her roles at the Met included Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro; Despina in Così fan tutte; The Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute; Amore in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice; Marzeline in Beethoven's Fidelio; Rosina in The Barber of Seville; Adina in L'elisir d'amore; Norina in Don Pasquale; Oscar in Un ballo in maschera; Nanetta in Falstaff; Olympia in The Tales of Hoffmann; Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier; Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos; and Adele in Die Fledermaus. She later added lyric-coloratura roles such as Amina in La sonnambula, Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor and Gilda in Rigoletto, the last being her farewell role at the Met in 1985.


Peters also appeared frequently with the Cincinnati Opera, as well as in numerous cities around the United States while on tour with the Met. Over the years, she expanded her repertoire to include roles such as Lakmé, Juliette in Roméo et Juliette, Massenet's Manon, even attempting occasionally Violetta in La traviata, and Mimì in La bohème.


Peters also appeared abroad as early as 1951, when she sang at the Royal Opera House in London, in Balfe's The Bohemian Girl, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham. From the mid-1950s onwards, she appeared in several opera houses in Italy, the Vienna State Opera, the Salzburg Festival, and the Bolshoi in Moscow, in 1972.


Peters was as popular on television as on the stage.[1] She appeared regularly on such programs as The Voice of Firestone and The Tonight Show. On the Sunday night CBS variety program The Ed Sullivan Show, Peters was its most frequent guest, appearing a record 65 times. She also appeared in several television commercials, including a memorable entry in American Express' "Do You Know Me?" campaign, in which she hailed a taxi at the top of her voice.[1]


Peters also had an extensive career as a recitalist, appearing in concert halls throughout the United States. Early in her career in 1962, she performed before an audience of over 13,000 at the popular outdoor "Italian Night" concert series at Lewisohn Stadium in New York under the direction of conductor Alfredo Antonini.[6]


Later in her career she added operetta and musical theater to her repertoire, appearing in The Merry Widow, and The King and I. She also recorded Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel with Alfred Drake. Peters never officially retired and gave occasional recitals later in life.



Personal life


Peters was briefly married to baritone Robert Merrill in 1952, later admitting she had fallen in love with the voice and not the man. The two divorced amicably, remained friends and continued to perform together in opera and recitals. She remarried in 1955, to Bertram Fields, with whom she had two sons. Bert died in 2010. Peters died of Parkinson's disease on January 18, 2017.[1]



Discography



Studio opera recordings



















































Composer Opera (year of recording, label) Other singers Chorus, orchestra, conductor
Donizetti
Lucia di Lammermoor (1957, RCA Victor)
Jan Peerce, Philip Maero, Giorgio Tozzi
Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Erich Leinsdorf
Gluck
Orfeo ed Euridice (1957, RCA Victor)
Lisa Della Casa, Risë Stevens
 Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Pierre Monteux
Mozart
Così fan tutte, sung in English (1952, Columbia)		 Steber, Thebom, Tucker, Guarrera, Alvary Metropolitan Opera, Stiedry
Mozart
The Magic Flute (1964, Deutsche Grammophon)		 Lear, Wunderlich, Fischer-Dieskau, Crass Berlin Philharmonic, Böhm
Rossini
The Barber of Seville (1958, RCA Victor)		 Valetti, Merrill, Corena, Tozzi Metropolitan Opera, Leinsdorf
Strauss
Ariadne auf Naxos (1958, RCA Victor)		 Rysanek, Jurinac, Peerce, Berry Vienna Philharmonic, Leinsdorf
Verdi
Rigoletto (1956, RCA Victor)		 Rota, Jussi Björling, Merrill, Tozzi Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Perlea


Studio recital recordings













































Title Composers/works Label, year Conductor/accompanist
Youngest Member of a Great Tradition Donizetti, Bellini RCA Victor, 1954 Cellini
Famous Operatic Arias Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, Auber, Delibes RCA Victor, 1956 Bellezza, Perlea
In Recital Bach, Handel, Scarlatti, Debussy, Ravel, Schumann, Strauss RCA Victor, 1962 George Trovillo, piano
Sing the Popular Music of Leonard Bernstein (with Alfred Drake) On the Town, West Side Story, Candide, Wonderful Town Pye Command, 1965 Enoch Light
Singt Lieder von Richard Strauss & Claude Debussy Debussy, Strauss BASF, 1973 Leonard Hokanson, piano
Raisins and Almonds Folks songs arr. by David Krivoshei Audio Fidelity, 1975 Sam Brown and John Pizzarelli, guitars


Live Metropolitan Opera broadcasts released on CD by Sony







































Composer Opera (performance date) Other singers Conductor
Donizetti
L'elisir d'amore (March 5, 1966)		 Bergonzi, Guarrera, Corena Schippers.
Mozart
Le nozze di Figaro (January 28, 1961)		 Amara, Miller, Siepi, Borg Leinsdorf.
Offenbach
Les contes d'Hoffmann (December 3, 1955)		 Amara, Stevens, Tucker, Singher Monteux.
Verdi
Un ballo in maschera (December 10, 1955)		 Milanov, Anderson, Peerce, Merrill Mitropoulos.
Verdi
Rigoletto (February 22, 1964)		 Dunn, Tucker, Merrill, Giaiotti Cleva.


Further reading




  • The Metropolitan Opera Encyclopedia, edited by David Hamilton, (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1987). .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
    ISBN 978-0671617325

  • Stevenson, Joseph. Roberta Peters at AllMusic. Retrieved 30 June 2013.



References





  1. ^ abcde Fox, Margalit. "Roberta Peters, Soprano With a Dramatic Entrance, Dies at 86". The New York Times. Retrieved January 19, 2017.


  2. ^ Lifetime Honors – National Medal of Arts Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine.


  3. ^ "Sol Peterman from Assembly District 2 Bronx in 1940 Census District 3-162". Retrieved January 19, 2017.


  4. ^ "Roberta Peters Biography (1930-)". Retrieved January 19, 2017.


  5. ^ https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/peters-roberta


  6. ^ "Music: Italian Opera Night at Stadium; Roberta Peters and Jan Peerce Are Soloists" by Howard Klein, The New York Times, July 30, 1962, p. 14 (subscription required)




External links




  • Roberta Peters collection, 1881–1998 (her personal papers) in the Music Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts


  • Two Interviews with Roberta Peters by Bruce Duffie, December 13, 1981 and June 17, 1993










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