Ariel Bybee [SEP] voice type
Ariel Bybee
Ariel Bybee (January 9, 1943 – March 20, 2018) was a mezzo-soprano who has had a distinguished career as a soloist, voice teacher and university opera director. According to "Opera News" (June 2000), she was "a prominent mezzo at the Metropolitan Opera for eighteen seasons." She sang over 460 performances at the Metropolitan Opera.
Bybee received a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University in 1965. She later took advanced musical studies in New York where one of
The Most Happy Fella" won the International Trophy (Grand Prize) in competition at the Waterford International Festival of Light Opera.
When she became an emerita professor at UNL, the university endowed the Ariel Bybee Chair of Opera Performance in her honor. In 2008, Bybee moved to the Salt Lake City area where she taught voice at the University of Utah.
Recordings.
Bybee can be heard in Franco Zeffirelli's 1983 motion picture of "La traviata", singing the role of Flora. As well as being