Mr. Johnson is the recipient of the Lehmann Foundation’s 2004 World of Song Award.After arriving in Britain from his native Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Graham Johnson studied at London’s Royal Academy of Music and subsequently with the late Geoffrey Parsons....
In 1993, he was engaged by the Opera de Paris-Bastille to sing in a new production of Benvenuto Cellini by Berlioz. In 2000, he performed in Heloise and Abelard by Australian composer Peter Tahourdin, toured France and Poland with Mozart’s Requiem, sung at the...
Shirley Sproule, soprano, was born in Canada and trained and sang there until first studying opera and Lieder with Lehmann at the MAW in 1953. She continued there with Lehmann, working in the winters as well as the regular summer sessions and after 1956 sang in Europe...
Katsuumi Niwa was born in 1938 and has taught for years at Nihon University. Known in three vocal areas, he sang countertenor in Minao Shibata’s vocal works, as well as traditional Japanese contemporary opera and European Baroque music. As a tenor and baritone he is...
Carol Neblett made her Lyric Opera of Chicago debut in 1976 as Tosca with Luciano Pavarotti, and sang this role more than 400 times! Subsequently, she was invited to sing Minnie with Placido Domingo for Queen Elizabeth’s 25th Jubilee Celebration at Covent...
EVANGELINE NOËL GLASS – (soprano) studied opera and Lieder with Lotte Lehmann (in Santa Barbara, in Vienna, and in Salzburg) and Dusolina Giannini. Evangeline came to the MAW in January 1958 as one of Lehmann’s students and stayed during the same time as her...
