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Sylvia
The American soprano is going to perform just for you, so book your tickets now for Sylvia McNair.
Sylvia McNair was born in Ohio. From a very young age she had a burning desire to sing like her idol Patsy Cline. She graduated from Indiana University. She then recorded her songs on her own and went to Music City. There, she got a job as a secretary for producer as well as publisher Tom Collins. Collins was also the producer to Barbara Mandrell. Her talent was ultimately recognized by the head of RCA Records, Jerry Bradley, who signed her to a recording contract.
Sylvia released an innumerable singles such as "You Don't Miss a Thing", "Tumbleweed", "Drifter", "The Matador", and "Heart on The Mend", which were hit. But in 1982, when she released her single 'Nobody', it made her instant hit and she became a household name. The song went on to become No.1 on the country charts and into the Top 13 on the pop charts. Not only this, 'Nobody' also became the only country single of 1982 to cross over into pop territory. She was also awarded the Female Vocalist in the Academy of Country Music of the year in 1982. She was also nominated for Grammy Award for "Best Female Vocalist" in 1983. After "Nobody", she then went on to release "Like Nothing Ever Happened", "The Wayward Wind" with James Galway, "Snapshot", and "I Never Quite Got Back
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Artist Biography - Sylvia
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 In 1989, she made her first debut in the the field of opera at the Glyndebourne Festival as Anne Trulove, 'The Rake's Progress',she left quite an impressionable mark in the minds of the audience. She also appeared in an equally sensational debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Ilia, 'Idomeneo'. She again made her Salzburg debut as Ilia in 1990 with Ozawa and Paris Opera debut with Chung. Since then she has sung Corinna ('Il Viaggio a Reims') and Susanna at Covent Garden and Anne Trulove, Susanna, and Poppea at the Salzburg Festival with, respectively, Sylvain Cambreling, Bernard Haitink and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. In the year 1992, she made her debuts with the San Francisco Opera as Tytania ('A Midsummer Night's Dream') and at the Metropolitan Opera, New York as Marzelline.
In 1990, she was also the first winner of the Marion Anderson Award. After her contract with the recording company RCA ended, she was able to concentrate on writing the music that she always wanted to do. The outcome was a new record label, Red Pony Records, that was owned and managed by Sylvia herself. Along with musician John Mock, she produced the album
"The Real Story". She wrote about half the songs on the album along with Craig Bickhardt, Verlon Thompson, Lee Satterfield, and others, some of whom perform with her on occasion at Nashville's famed "Bluebird Café". She has also performed recitals in Edinburgh, Lisbon, Brussels, London, Paris and at the Musikverein in Vienna, in Cleveland, St Louis, San Francisco, Los Angeles and in New York both at Carnegie Hall and at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall.
She has appeared in a number of events. She was asked to be a part of the Chicago Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony and Cleveland Orchestras. She has also worked a number of times with the Atlanta Symphony conducted by Robert Shaw, the Boston Symphony with Seiji Ozawa , the St Louis Symphony conducted by Leonard Slatkin and the New York Philharmonic with Kurt Masur. She was also invited to Europe where she has performed and also recorded with the London Symphony conducted by Michael Tilson-Thomas, the London Philharmonic with Masur, the English Baroque Soloists with John Eliot Gardiner, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Claudio Abbado , the Vienna Philharmonic with André Previn and Abbado, and the Berlin Philharmonic with Jeffrey Tate, Bernard Haitink, Claudio Abbado and James Levine
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