Audrey Schuh [SEP] voice type
Audrey Schuh
Audrey Schuh (born June 11, 1931) is an American operatic soprano. She studied at Loyola University of the South.
Schuh was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her first leading role with the New Orleans Opera Association (at the age of eighteen) was the page-boy Oscar in "Un ballo in maschera", opposite Jussi Björling, in 1950. She starred there in "Don Giovanni" (as Zerlina), "Carmen" (as Micaëla), "Amelia al ballo
's "Markheim" at the New Orleans Opera (opposite Norman Treigle and Audrey Schuh), later retiring to Hadlyme, CT, where the Diards made appearances and taught in their private studio. The following year he joined the voice faculty at the Hartt School where he taught until his retirement in 1988.
Marriage.
Diard met his wife, Gloria Aliani, while singing a performance of "La bohème" in 1956 in Miami, Florida. Aliani was making her debut as Mimì to Diard's Rudolfo. They married