Brenda Roberts

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Brenda Roberts is one of the world's great high-dramatic Sopranos. Miss Roberts received both Bachelors and Masters degrees from Northwestern University, where she studied with Prof. Hermanus Baer and participated in master classes with Lotte Lehman and Gerald Moore. In addition to her years of studies in the United States, Miss Roberts spent a further year honing her craft at the Vienna Hochschule für Musik, as well as privately studying with Josef Metternich. Brenda Roberts made her European debut in Saarbrücken as Sieglinde in "Walküre" and has since then performed at almost all of the international opera houses in major roles. The dramatic soprano roles of Richard Strauss and Richard Wagner are central to her repertoire and international success: she was the youngest-ever Brünnhilde at the Bayreuth Festival; she has sung the Dyer's Wife at the New York Metropolitan Opera and Elektra at the Chicago Lyric Opera; Ortrud at La Scala Milan and Paris Opera; Elektra, Senta, Ortrud and Venus at the Dresden Semper Opera; Elektra and Senta at the Stuttgart State Opera; Elektra, Senta, Ortrud and Dyer's Wife at the Hamburg State Opera; Elektra at the Bavarian State Opera Munich; Salome at the Vienna State Opera; as well as Venus at the Maggio Musicale, Florence. Other central roles include Turandot (Bern, Essen and Warsaw); Tosca (Berlin, La Coruna and Nürnberg); Georgetta (Berlin and San Francisco); Erwartung (Teatro Massimo in Palermo); Fidelio (Warsaw, Franfurt and Antwerp); a

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Glory, Glory Alleluja

An Evening With Wagner, Strauss, And Schreker

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Think Dancen

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9 Arias and Songs

Brenda Roberts im Geisenheimer Dom

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Wellesz, Handel, Wagner

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That One Song: Classical

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Dohl: Medea

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Heartquake Avenue

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