Catherine Naglestad
{{short description|American opera singer (born 1965)}}
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Catherine Naglestad (born 7 November 1965)Catherin J Naglestad in the California Birth Index, 1905–1995 is an American soprano performing in Europe and internationally. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area.{{Cite news |last=Jacobs |first=Ruth C. |date=2005 |title=Catherine Naglestad |url=http://www.operajaponica.org/interviews/naglestad.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725025932/http://www.operajaponica.org/interviews/naglestad.htm |archive-date=2011-07-25 |access-date=2024-10-21 |work=Opera japonica}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.artistsman.com/home/artist_list/soprano/catherine-naglestad |title=Catherine Naglestad biography on Artists Management Zurich |access-date=2009-06-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224103323/http://www.artistsman.com/home/artist_list/soprano/catherine-naglestad |archive-date=2012-02-24 |url-status=dead }} In 2006, she was named Singer of the Year by Opernwelt in Germany for her portrayal of Norma, Alceste, and Elisabetta.{{Cite news |last=Kalchschmid |first=Klaus |date=2006 |title=Die verletzbare Starke |url=https://www.der-theaterverlag.de/opernwelt/aktuelles-heft/artikel/die-verletzbare-starke/ |access-date=2024-10-21 |work=Opernwelt |language=de}}
Early life and education
Naglestad was born in San Jose, California and grew up in Sacramento. At age 12, she started singing musical theater before deciding to pursue a career in opera. At age 17, she moved to San Francisco where she studied at the San Francisco Conservatory, furthering her studies in Rome, Milan and New York.
Career
She has performed leading roles in opera houses and concert halls around the world, including the Royal Opera House in London, Paris Opéra Bastille, Berlin State Opera, and Suntory Hall in Tokyo.{{Better source needed|reason=Primary source|date=October 2024}}
Reception
Opera Canada said in a 2012 review of Andreas Kriegenburg's staging of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen for the Bavarian State Opera that "Catherine Naglestad had the lyricism and youthful beauty for the Siegfried Brünnhilde".{{Cite news |last=So |first=Joseph |date=Fall 2012 |title=Germany: Munich |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1289061982 |access-date=2024-10-21 |work=Opera Canada |pages=56–57 |volume=53 |issue=3|id={{ProQuest|1289061982}} }}
In a 2008 review of Busoni's Doktor Faust, critic Shirley Apthorp wrote in FT.com that "Amid all this testosterone-laden heft, Catherine Naglestad's exquisitely rounded, sensual Duchess of Parma provides a welcome note of lyricism."{{Cite news |last=Apthorp |first=Shirley |date=July 7, 2008 |title=Doktor Faust, Bavarian State Opera, Munich |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/229082983 |access-date=2024-10-21 |work=FT.com |id={{ProQuest|229082983}}}} In a review of the cast recording, Richard Sininger said in American Record Guide that "Catherine Naglestad reveals a gleaming soprano as the Duchess."{{Cite news |last=Sininger |first=Richard |date=March–April 2014 |title=Busoni: Doktor Faust |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1511020965 |access-date=2024-10-21 |work=American Record Guide |id={{ProQuest|1511020965}}}}
Opera News said in a 2002 recording review that "Catherine Naglestad's Alcina is a complex figure – regal, headstrong and even somewhat sympathetic. The bright, impressive upper range of her voice, topped by a effortless high D, serves her well in the cadenzas."{{Cite news |last=Burke |first=Richard |date=August 2002 |title=Handel: Alcina |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/224233046 |access-date=2024-10-21 |work=Opera News |id={{ProQuest|224233046}} }}
Gramophone gave her a poor review for her lead role in Gluck's Alceste; much of the review focused on her costume, hair styling, and uninspired acting, rather than her singing,{{cite news|url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/gluck-alceste-1|work=Gramophone|title=Gluck Alceste: Musical riches are here but you must suffer a ghastly concept to hear them |first=Richard |last=Wigmore |quote= Sporting a dowdy business suit and a dreadful auburn wig, Catherine Naglestad's pill-popping Alceste looks like a cross between Margaret Thatcher and Cherie Blair on a bad-hair day. There is little interaction, certainly no passion or tenderness, between her and her husband Admète. After Apollo engineers the obligatory "happy ending", she seems either indifferent or exasperated – if the aim was to show her traumatised, it misfires.| access-date=October 21, 2024}} and the role is notoriously difficult.
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110725025932/http://www.operajaponica.org/interviews/naglestad.htm Opera japonica interview with Ruth C Jacobs, 2005, accessed 4 June 2010]
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Category:American operatic sopranos
Category:San Francisco Conservatory of Music alumni
Category:Singers from California