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Sylvia Anderson
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Sylvia Anderson, mezzo and dramatic soprano, was trained at the Eastman School and received a Fulbright Stipend to Germany. She spent 28 years abroad singing in major houses in Europe, South America and the U.S. She received an Honorary Doctorate for spanning three continents during her career, and was one of few Americans invited to sing behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. She sang Elizabeth in Russia, Salome in Warsaw and Brangaene in Teheran. She appeared as Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier with New York City Opera in the new Kennedy Center in Washington and was the only American to sing Carl Orff's Antigone at the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, and his de temporum at the Salzburg Festival under Herbert von Karajan. She has sung 15 Wagnerian roles at Bayreuth Festival, San Francisco Opera, Frankfurt, Berlin, Barcelona and Rome Operas, and has sung Salome, Octavian, Marschallin, Tosca and Carmen over 100 times each. On the faculty of the Conservatory of Music since 1990, Miss Anderson founded the Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute (BASOTI) in 1992.
Sylvia Anderson can be contacted at 415.503.6200 x6520 or operaprof@aol.com.
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