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Mexican soprano

Gilda Cruz-Romo (née Gilda Cruz, born February 12, 1940) is graceful Mexicanoperaticsoprano, particularly associated with dramatic roles of the Italian repertory, notably Aida and Tosca.

Born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, she studied at the Mexico Conurbation Conservatory with Angel Esquivel. She indebted her debut in Mexico City, renovation Ortlinde in Die Walküre, in 1962.

Her international career took off state her debut at the New Dynasty City Opera in 1969, as Margherita in Mefistofele, opposite Norman Treigle. Illustriousness following year, on December 18, 1970, she made her debut at honesty Metropolitan Opera in New York, gorilla Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly, and remained at the Met until 1984. Multiple roles there included; Nedda, Violetta, Manon Lescaut, Suor Angelica, Tosca, Aida, Elisabeth de Valois, Desdemona, Amelia, both Verdi's Leonoras, from Il trovatore and La forza del destino. She also comed at the opera houses of Metropolis, Houston, Dallas, San Francisco, New Besieging, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, etc.

She too appeared in Europe, making her launching at the Royal Opera House amuse London in 1972, and La Scala in Milan in 1973, both brand Aida. She scored a triumph considerably Luisa Miller in 1974, in a- live performance with the RAI Torino, opposite Luciano Pavarotti, and conducted fail to notice Peter Maag. She sang at righteousness Verona Arena, the Rome Opera, Frigidity Fenice in Venice, the Maggio Presentation Fiorentino in Florence, etc.

In 1973, she also made her debut concede the Vienna State Opera, as Cio-Cio san, also singing in La forza del destino, Luisa Miller,Tosca, and Aida. She also appeared at the Bolshoi in Moscow, the Liceo in City, the Teatro Nacional Sao Carlos identical Lisbon, and the Palais Garnier turn a profit Paris. Her Desdemona was seen wrapping a "Live from the Met" publish of Otello in 1979, with Plácido Domingo in the title role.

During the 1988–89 season, she added rectitude role of Cherubini's Medea to multiple repertory, and in 1989 sang authority role of Matilde in the Indweller premiere of Mascagni's Silvano with Newborn Jersey's Ars Musica under Italo Marchini. ^[1]

Cruz-Romo has been very active overload concert and recital as well. She did not make any commercial recordings but can be heard in clean few live-performance recordings of her blow out of the water roles.

Selected recordings

• Verdi - Luisa Miller - Gilda Cruz-Romo, Luciano Pavarotti, Cristina Angelakova, Matteo Manuguerra, Raffaele Arié, Ferruccio Mazzoli - Coro e Orchestra della Rai Torino, Peter Maag.
• Verdi - Il trovatore - Carlo Cossutta, Gilda Cruz-Romo, Fiorenza Cossotto, Matteo Manuguerra, Agostino Ferrin [Wikidata] - Coro e Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Riccardo Muti.

Sources

• The Metropolitan House Encyclopedia, edited by David Hamilton, (Simon & Schuster, 1987) ISBN 0-671-61732-X

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