Michelle Crider

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Michelle Crider is currently one the world's great sopranos. She studied singing at the University of Iowa. After Iowa, she studied music at the Zürcher Opernhaus and in 1989 won the Geneva International music competition.

Since then, she has appeared in nearly every great opera house in the world including the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, The Metropolitan Opera in New York, San Francisco Opera, Los Angeles Opera, State Operas of Vienna, Munich, Berlin and Hamburg. She has appeared sung alongside the great conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, James Levine, Nello Santi, Christoph of Dohnanyi, Semyon Bychkov, Seiji Ozawa, Riccardo Chailly and Colin Davis.

Famous recording include Verdi's Requiem under Sir Colin Davis in 1997, Aida, Beethoven's Ninth and Il Travatore.