Greenawald, Sheri (Kay)
Greenawald, Sheri (Kay)
Greenawald, Sheri (Kay), American soprano;b. Iowa City, Nov. 12, 1947. She studied with Charles Matheson at the Univ. of Northern Iowa (B.A., 1968), with Maria DeVarady, Hans Heinz, and Daniel Ferro in N.Y., and with Audrey Langford in London. In 1974 she made her professionaldebut in Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tiresias at N.Y.’s Manhattan Theater Club, and then sang with the San Francisco Opera, the Houston Grand Opera, the Santa Fe Opera, the Washington (D.C.)Opera et al. In 1980 she made her European debut as Mozart’s Susanna with the Netherlands Opera. In 1991 she sang Pauline in the U.S. stage premiere of Prokofiev’s The Gambler at the Lyric Opera in Chicago. After portraying Melisande in Seattle in 1993, she appeared as the Marschallinatthe Welsh National Opera in Cardiff in 1994. On Nov. 25, 1995, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut in N.Y. as Weill’s Jenny. She sang in Susa’s Transformations in St. Louis in 1997. Shetoured extensively as a concert artist. Among her many roles were Zerlina, Despina, Massenet’s Sophie, Violetta, Mimi, and Britten’s Ellen Orford. She also created roles in Pasatieri’s Signor Deluso (1974) and Washington Square (1976), Floyd’s Bilby’s Doll (1976), and Bernstein’s A Quiet Place (1983).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire