Yvonne Ciannella
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Yvonne Ciannella (born 7 July 1926) is an American coloratura soprano in opera and concert. She began her career performing and recording with the Robert Shaw Chorale in the early 1950s. After graduate voice studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, she embarked on a career as an opera singer; working mainly in Germany at the Staatstheater Braunschweig, Theater Bonn, and Theater Dortmund during the 1960s. She also appeared as a guest artist with opera companies in Berlin, Cologne, Florida, Frankfurt, Hamburg, and Vienna. For many years she was a member of the voice faculty of Florida State University.
Born in New York City, Ciannella earned a Bachelor of Music degree in vocal performance from Queens College, City University of New York. A Fulbright Scholarship enabled her to pursue further studies in voice at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg in Austria. She became a regular soloist with the Robert Shaw Chorale (RSC) during the early 1950s, singing for example the soprano part in Mozart's Requiem in 1951. She toured with the group, singing in the same program also excerpts from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She also performed the part of the Archangel Gabriel in Haydn's The Creation in Carnegie Hall with the RSC in 1953. She was a featured soloist on the 1950 album Christmas With the Robert Shaw Chorale.
In 1951 Ciannella was the soprano soloist in Haydn's Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo with the Interracial Fellowship Chorus (IFC) under conductor Harold Aks at Town Hall in Manhattan. In 1955 she performed the role of the Israelite woman in Handel's Judas Maccabaeus with Walter Carringer in the title role, Betty Allen as the Israelite messenger, the IFC, and Aks conducting. That same year she was a featured soloist in a concert of Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine at Carnegie Hall with the Dessoff Choirs under conductor Paul Boeppl. In 1963 she was the soprano soloist in Handel's Messiah with The Masterwork Chorus and Orchestra at Carnegie Hall under conductor Thomas Dunn.
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