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Masters are artists of consummate skill who are distinguished among their peers and are sought out for the training of aspiring artists.
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MIGNON DUNN
Mignon Dunn has sung the leading mezzo-soprano roles in the most important opera houses of the world. In Europe, she has sung at La Scala in Milan, the Vienna Staatsoper, London's Royal Opera at Covent Garden, the Paris Opera, Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre, Teatr Wielki in Warsaw, the Hamburg Staatsoper, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and the opera companies of Frankfurt and Dusseldorf. In South and Central America, she has performed at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, the Opera National in Chile, Mexico City's Bellas Artes, and the Opera of Puerto Rico. In Canada, she has performed with the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto and the Opera de Montreal. In the United States, she sang at the Chicago Lyric Opera, the San Francisco Opera, the Santa Fe Opera, the Opera Company of Boston, the Opera Theater of Detroit, and the New Orleans and Miami Operas. At the Metropolitan Opera in New York, she sang more than 650 performances over a span of more than 35 years. She is widely known as a professor of voice and has taught on the faculties of the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Illinois, Northwestern University, Brooklyn College, and for many years at the Manhattan School of Music.
Opera News article
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RUTH FALCON
Soprano Ruth Falcon has won wide acclaim in performances at the leading opera houses in Europe, including the Paris Opera, Vienna State Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Royal Opera at Covent Garden, Hamburg State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and the Teatro La Fenice in Venice. In 1989 she made a spectacular Metropolitan Opera debut as the Kaiserin in the season premiere of Richard Strauss's "Die Frau Ohne Schatten." Falcon has performed with many of the world's great conductors, including Christoph von Dohnanyi, Seiji Ozawa, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Marek Janowski, and Andrew Davis. She may also be heard in recordings such as Wagner's "Ring" with Janowski on Eurodisc, "Die Walkure" under Bernard Haitink, the final scene of "Salome" with Mark Elder and the London Philharmonic, and Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony" with Yehudi Menuhin conducting the Royal Philharmonic. Falcon is also a voice teacher of international reputation. She has trained many of the younger star performers on the operatic stage, including Deborah Voigt, Margaret Jane Wray, and Sondra Radvanosky, and is on the faculty of the Mannes School of Music. She also teaches apprentices in the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, and is in much demand around the world as a teacher of masterclasses.  
The New School News article
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 		SHERRILL MILNES
Five-time Grammy nominee and three-time Grammy winner Sherrill Milnes is internationally recognized as the leading Verdi baritone of his time. He has conquered all of the great opera capitals of the world: the Royal Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala in Milan, Berlin's Deutsche Oper, the Paris Opera, the famed Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, the Liceu in Barcelona, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Salzburg Festival, the Hamburg Opera, and Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre. He has also appeared with the San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the opera companies of Pittsburgh, San Diego, Miami, and Denver, among others in the United States. At the Metropolitan Opera, where he sang more than 650 performances over a 32-year span, he has been honored with 16 new productions, 7 opening nights, and 10 national telecasts. Milnes has led masterclasses at the Juilliard and Manhattan Schools in New York, at most major universities throughout the country, and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. He has done more extensive teaching at the Yale University School of Music; Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow; the Northern Royal College of Music in Manchester, England; the Vocal Arts Institutes in Tel Aviv, Montreal, and Puerto Rico; and the International Institute of Vocal Arts in Italy. Milnes is a distinguished professor of music emeritus at Northwestern University and now teaches masterclasses and workshops internationally. He is the artist director of the V.O.I.C. Experience Foundation and serves as artistic advisor of Opera Tampa, the resident opera company of the Straz Center for the Performing Arts.
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