Luana DeVol (born November 30, 1942 in San Mateo, California) is an American operatic

soprano A soprano () is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hz to "high A" (A5) = 880&n ...

who made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Ortrud in April 2006 in Wagner's '' Lohengrin''. The production was broadcast internationally on April 29, 2006. She was named "Singer of the Year" in 1997 and 2000 by the German opera magazine '' Opernwelt''.

Early life and education

DeVol graduated from Capuchino High School in San Bruno, California, where she grew up, and attended the College of San Mateo in San Mateo. She had a featured role in a production of '' Patience'' by Gilbert and Sullivan, the very first performances by the San Mateo Community Theatre, in the summer of 1963.

Career

Since the mid-1980s, DeVol has sung primarily in Europe and has enjoyed success in the German repertoire. She was a featured soloist with the Masterworks Chorale in San Mateo under the direction of Galen Marshall, and sang in a great variety of choral works, especially by Ludwig van Beethoven and

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. DeVol appeared with the

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and the San Francisco Opera. She moved to Germany in 1984 to further pursue her career, giving numerous operatic performances there. DeVol has been featured on recordings released by the Bayer Music Group.''Portrait'', Vol. 2 (Beethoven, Weber, Marschner, Wagner)
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