Michèle Crider

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Michèle Crider is an American lirico spinto operatic soprano.

She studied singing at the University of Iowa with Dr. John Van Cura. After Iowa, she studied music at the Zürcher Opernhaus and in 1989 won the Geneva International music competition.

Since then, she has appeared in many of the 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, and the state operas of Vienna, Munich, Berlin and Hamburg. She has sung alongside the great conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, James Levine, Nello Santi, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Semyon Bychkov, Seiji Ozawa, Riccardo Chailly and Colin Davis.

[edit] Recordings

Her recordings include Verdi's Requiem under Sir Colin Davis in 1997, Aida, Beethoven's Ninth and Leonora in Il trovatore.

[edit] External links

• Home page.
• Review in The New York Times from her 1997 Metropolitan Opera debut in Madama Butterfly.