Janet Perry

Janet Perry born December 27 1947 Minneapolis is an American operatic soprano In 1959 aged 11 she was seen in a stageversion of The Wizard of Oz at the St Paul Civic Opera Following high school she matriculated at the Curtis Institute of Music under the tutelage of Mme Eufemia GianniniGregory Having earned her Bachelor of Music she left for Europe where she debuted at the Linz Opera as Zerlina in Don Giovanni in 1969 In subsequent seasons Perry was featured in most of the continents major opera houses including La Scala 1978 as well as most of its famed festivals including those of Salzburg Glyndebourne AixenProvence and Bregenz A particular favorite of Herbert von Karajan she also sang under Carlos Kleiber Karl Böhm Riccardo Muti Daniel Barenboim Nikolaus Harnoncourt Mstislav Rostropovich Rafael Kubelík James Levine and Wolfgang Sawallisch as well as the stage directors JeanPierre Ponnelle and Giorgio Strehler Source Article Janet Perry from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30