Cynthia Haymon [SEP] voice type
Cynthia Haymon
Cynthia Haymon-Coleman is an American soprano, born September 6, 1958 in Jacksonville, Florida. She is known for the beauty of her voice and seeming ease with which she uses it, and more recently as a voice teacher. She received a Bachelor's degree of Music in Vocal Performance from Northwestern University. In 2016, she retired from the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and presently teaches privately from her studio in Champaign, Illinois.
Performances.
Her operatic roles include
Copland: "Old American Songs", opera arias by Mozart and Gounod, Bizet's "Pearl Fishers' Duet", and Broadway numbers including "Some Enchanted Evening" and "Ol' Man River". With Bonaventura Bottone, tenor, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, cond. Carl Davis, conductor. RLCD 204
- "Porgy and Bess" with Cynthia Haymon, Harolyn Blackwell, Glyndebourne Chorus and London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Simon Rattle. Another complete recording of the opera, and the basis