Lucine Amara [SEP] voice type
Lucine Amara
Lucine Amara (born March 1, 1924) is an American soprano who was largely based at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Biography.
Amara was born Lucine Armaganian in Hartford, Connecticut, of Armenian heritage, before moving to San Francisco where she was raised.
She studied at the San Francisco's Community Music School under Stella Eisner-Eyn and sang in the chorus of the San Francisco Opera, 1945–46. In 1946, Amara made her concert debut at the War Memorial Opera House.
for CBS: "Pagliacci" (as Beppe, opposite Lucine Amara, Richard Tucker and Giuseppe Valdengo (1951), and "Lucia di Lammermoor" (as Lord Arturo Bucklaw, with Lily Pons and Richard Tucker, 1954). Both albums were conducted by Fausto Cleva. In 1998, Video Artists International published a compact disc of excerpts from a 1958 performance of "La traviata", from New Orleans, Louisiana, with Kirsten and Cornell MacNeil, which displays the voice in his prime.
Radio and television Teaching career