June Anderson
Born in Boston, June Anderson first came to public attention at the age of seventeen, the youngest finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Auditions. She was graduated cum laude from Yale University.
She made her professional debut with the New York City Opera as Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte and her Metropolitan Opera debut as Gilda in Rigoletto, with Luciano Pavarotti. At the Metropolitan Opera she has sung the title roles in Donizetti's La fille du Régiment, Lucia di Lammermoor, Semiramide and La Traviata, as well as Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus and Leonora in Il Trovatore.
She has performed in all the major opera houses including the La Scala, Covent Garden, the Opéra de Paris and the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Chicago Lyric, San Francisco, and the Liceu in Barcelona and has collaborated with many of the greatest conductors, including Leonard Bernstein, James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa and Michael Tilson Thomas. She is internationally renowned as a soprano of consummate artistry with a compelling dramatic presence.
Recitals and concerts have taken her to Tokyo, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Prague, Sao Paulo, Puerto Rico, Reyjkavik, Paris, Geneva, Seville and Venice. Operatic engagements have included Lucia at the Gran Teatro Liceu in Barcelona, the Opéra de Paris and the Megaron in Athens; Norma for the Opéra de Paris, Teatro Colon, Bilbao and Parma; La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera; Die Fledermaus in Washington, D.C., her first Richard Strauss opera: Capriccio at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, La Sonnambula in Marseille, Anna in Maometto II in Bilbao and Cortesa in Il Viaggio a Rheims for the Opéra de Monte Carlo with Benini.
She continues to explore new repertoire with Henze's Die Bassariden at the Châtelet in Paris and Strauss's Daphne at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.
In 2006 she had a great success as Norma with the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto which she also sang with the Opéra de Marseille conducted by Villaume. She recently sang Strauss's Vier letzte Lieder at La Monnaie conducted by Kazushi Ono and gave a recital with the Philharmonia Orchestra in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.
In 2007 she sang Norma in Leipzig with Campanella, Verdi's Requiem with Eschenbach and the Orchéstre de Paris and the title role in Anna Bolena in Bilbao. She also took part in the Maria Callas Tribute Gala at La Fenice, Venice singing excepts from Norma and I Puritani. In 2008 she will give concerts in Aix, Brussels, Bordeaux and in the Salle Pleyel in Paris and recitals in Paris and Brussels.
Her large discography includes concert works of Beethoven, Pergolesi, and Orff as well as operas by Rossini, Donizetti, Mozart, Massenet, and Verdi. She has received a Grammy Award for Leonard Bernstein's Candide; and been named "Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres" by the French Government.
Promoters please note: if you wish to include this biography in a concert programme etc, please contact Hazard Chase to ensure that you receive the most up to date version.
Email: Kate Baylis
