Regina Resnik
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Regina Resnik (born 30 August 1922 in New York City) is an opera singer and actress, first as a soprano, then a mezzo-soprano.
After graduating from Hunter College in 1942, Regina Resnik made her concert debut in Brooklyn. She followed that up by making her operatic debut in Manhattan during the same year. She made her first Metropolitan Opera appearance in 1944 and began performing internationally. In 1971, she began to direct opera productions, and in 1983, she wrote and produced for television the award-winning documentary The Historic Ghetto of Venice.
Resnik's recordings include Vanessa (conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1958), Tristan und Isolde (conducted by Sir Georg Solti, 1960), Die Fledermaus (conducted by Herbert von Karajan, 1960), Carmen (1963), Falstaff (conducted by Leonard Bernstein, 1966), Elektra (with Birgit Nilsson, 1966-67), Salome (with Montserrat Caballé and Sherrill Milnes, 1968), The Medium (with Judith Blegen, 1968), Un ballo in maschera (with Luciano Pavarotti and Renata Tebaldi, 1970), and Pique-dame (with Galina Vishnevskaya, 1976). In 1999, VAI released a 1966 performance of Elektra from New Orleans, which also featured Inge Borkh and Audrey Schuh.
In 1988, she received a Tony nomination for the role of Frau Schneider in Cabaret. In 1990, she also received a Drama Desk Award for her role in the New York City Opera production of Sondheim's A Little Night Music.
As of 2006, she is living in her late husband's artist's studio near Carnegie Hall in Manhattan, and sponsoring a series of musical programs with Jewish themes.
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