John Macurdy [SEP] voice type
John Macurdy
John Macurdy (né John Edward McCurdy, in Detroit, Michigan, on March 18, 1929) is an American operatic bass. Among his teachers was the contralto Elisabeth Wood, who was also the pedagogue of Norman Treigle.
Début in New Orleans.
Macurdy made his formal debut with the New Orleans Opera Association on the opening night of the 1952–53 season, as the Old Hebrew in "Samson et Dalila", with Ramón Vinay and Blanche Thebom in the cast, which was conducted by Walter Herbert
Elisabeth Wood (who taught Norman Treigle and John Macurdy).
Following her 1942 graduation from Loyola, she matriculated at The Juilliard School, and in 1946 was heard in recital at Carnegie Hall. Tortorich returned to New Orleans, and began teaching Voice at Loyola in 1948; she also taught French Diction at the College of Music. Among her celebrated pupils are Ruth Falcon and Phyllis Treigle.
Tortorich retired from Loyola in 2003 and died at the age of 102 in March 2017.
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