Judith Blegen

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Judith Blegen (born April 17, 1940 – ) is an American soprano who was born in Missoula, Montana. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1970, as Papagena in Die Zauberflöte, and became a great favorite there. The soprano also appeared in Vienna, London and Paris.

Among Blegen's recordings are of Menotti's The Medium (with Regina Resnik), Puccini's La bohème (as Musetta, opposite Montserrat Caballé, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, Vicente Sardinero and Ruggero Raimondi, conducted by Sir Georg Solti), Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro (as Susanna, with Dame Heather Harper as the Contessa, conducted by Daniel Barenboim) and Carl Orff's Carmina Burana (with Robert Shaw conducting). The latter was one of the first digital recordings released by Telarc. She was a featured soloist on James Levine's Deutsche Grammophon recording of Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Grammy award - winning Telarc recording of Gabriel Fauré's "Requiem" with The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Shaw. In more recent years, she was the soprano soloist on the album The Angelic Sounds of Christmas: Music for the Glass Armonica. Miss Blegen is also the soprano soloist on the first complete all-digital recording (by RCA Red Seal, and still available on BMG's "High Performance" series) of Handel's Messiah, with the Musica Sacra Chorus and Orchestra, conducted by Richard Westenburg.

[edit] Videography

Verdi: Un ballo in maschera (Ricciarelli, Berini, Pavarotti, L.Quilico; G.Patanè, Moshinsky, 1980) [live]
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore (Pavarotti, Ellis, Bruscantini; Rescigno, N.Merrill, 1981) [live]
Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel (von Stade, Elias, Kraft, Devlin; Fulton, Donnell, 1982) [live]