Joy Clements Mary Ellen Pracht Gladys Kriese Metropolitan Opera Photo

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Joy Clements as Dryade, Mary Ellen Pracht as Najade and Gladys Kriese as Echo in "adriane auf Naxos"
Joy Clements (née Joyce Marie Albrecht; April 29, 1932 – October 24, 2005) was
an American lyric coloratura soprano
who had a
substantial opera and
concert
career
from 1956 through the late 1970s. She notably sang regularly with both the New York City Opera and the Metropolitan Opera during the 1960s through the early 1970s. She also traveled regularly for performances with opera companies and orchestras throughout the United States but only appeared in a relatively few number of performances internationally.
Mary Ellen Pracht (Soprano) Born: Shadyside, Ohio, USA: The American soprano, Mary Ellen Pracht, first studied to be a pianist at the Cincinnati College of Music. Mary Ellen Pracht joined the roster of the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1961-1962 season, where her first role was Annina in La Traviata.
The American mezzo-soprano Gladys Kriese-Caporale was born on January 11, 1931.
Gladys Kriese studied singing with Doris Mills Lewis in Winnipeg between 1947 and 1952 and then with Sidney Dietch in New York.
On December 22, 1961, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut in New York in the party of the voice of Antonia's mother.
Until 1966 she performed at the Met in 164 performances in parties such as Schwertleite in 'Die Walküre', Dryade in 'Ariadne auf Naxos' by Richard Strauss, Berta in 'Il Barbiere di Siviglia', un Pastore in 'Tosca', the Herbergierster in 'Boris Godoenov', Flosshilde and the 1.
Norn in 'Götterdämmerung', 3.
Lady in 'Die Zauberflöte', Marthe in 'Faust' by Gounod, Magdalene in 'Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg', Teresa in 'La Sonnambula', Larina in 'Yevgeny Onjegin', Marcellina in 'Le Nozze di Figaro', Annina in 'Der Rosenkavalier', Mary in 'Der fliegende Holländer' and La Comtesse di Coigny in 'Andrea Chénier' by Giordano. She died in 2007
Louis Mélançon
(1901-1974) was the in-house
photographer
for the Metropolitan Opera from 1947 to his death in 1974.