Lauren Flanigan

Quick Facts

Full Name	Lauren Flanigan
Occupation	Opera Singer
Date Of Birth	May 18, 1959(1959-05-18)
Age	65
Birthplace	San Francisco
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Taurus

Lauren Flanigan Biography

Lauren Flanigan is one of the most popular and richest Opera Singer who was born on May 18, 1959 in San Francisco, California, United States. American operatic soprano who is known for her work with New York City Opera. In the opera, she sang in operas such as La Boheme, The Seven Deadly Sins as well as Macbeth.

She performed in Giuseppe Verdi’s I Lombardi alla prima crociata alongside opera legend She performed in Giuseppe Verdi’s I Lombardi alla prima crociata alongside opera legend Luciano Pavarotti..

Flanigan was born in San Francisco, California, the daughter of Irish and Pennsylvania Dutch parents. In 1971, at the age of 12, she appeared as Flora in Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw with the San Francisco Western Opera Theatre. Her portrayal of Flora resulted in being offered a full scholarship to study music, violin and voice in the pre-college program at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. While there she studied voice with Alice Taylor. She went on to earn a Bachelor of Music degree from Boston University where she was a voice student of Mac Morgan. She pursued graduate studies in vocal performance with Judith Raskin at the Manhattan School of Music, earning a Master of Music degree in 1984. In 1986 she was accepted as a post graduate student in voice at the Juilliard School.

Flanigan credits much of her early experience to the singular interest of Dr. Robert Larsen of the Des Moines Metro Opera where in 1985 she was cast as Clorinda in Gioachino Rossini’s La Cenerentola and as Curley’s Wife in Carlisle Floyd’s Of Mice and Men. This was followed by performances in 1987 as Musetta in Giacomo Puccini’s La bohème and Miss Jessel in The Turn of the Screw; 1989 as Rosalinda in Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus; and 1990 in Britten’s Peter Grimes. In 1986 she performed the role of Leila in Georges Bizet’s Les Pecheurs de Perles for the Hawaii Opera Theatre. In 1987 she appeared in the world premiere of Stewart Wallace’s Where’s Dick? with Opera Omaha under the direction of Anne Bogart. She returned to Omaha in 1988 to perform the role of Sophie Scholl in the United States premiere of Udo Zimmermann’s Weiße Rose. In January of that same year she premiered at St Clement’s Church in New York City, Music-Theatre Group’s reworking of the Massenet opera Cendrillon in a new production titled Cinderella/Cendrillon and reimagined by playwright Eve Ensler, music director Jeff Halprin and stage director Anne Bogart.

Her birthplace was San Francisco, California, however, she spent the majority all of her adult life living in New York City.

Lauren Flanigan Net Worth

Lauren Flanigan is one of the richest Opera Singer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Lauren Flanigan 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Her first stage appearance was as a performer in The Turn of the Screw at The San Francisco Western Opera Theatre that earned her an admissions scholarship at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

She has received numerous prizes for her work, among them an award from the Betty Allen Prize from the New York City Opera and an Artist of the Year Award from the Center for Contemporary Opera.

Lauren Flanigan (born May 18, 1959) is an American operatic soprano who has had an active international career since the 1980s. She enjoyed a particularly fruitful partnership with the New York City Opera, appearing with the company almost every year since 1990. She has sung more than 100 different opera roles on stage during her career, often appearing in contemporary works or more rarely staged operas. Opera News stated that, “Flanigan has enjoyed one of the most distinctive careers of any artist of her generation, one marked by a high volume of contemporary works. Modern composers love her because of her innate musicality, dramatic power and lightning-fast skills and instincts.”

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Flanigan has sung on recordings of Ned Rorem’s The Sun Cantata, Amy Beach’s Cabildo, Thomas Pasatieri’s Frau Margot, Pasatieri’s Monologues, Philip Glass’s Symphony #6 Plutonian Ode, Gustav Mahler’s Symphony #8, Deems Taylor’s Peter Ibbetson, and Howard Hanson’s Merry Mount. In 2002 her recording of Richard Strauss’s Die Liebe der Danae was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording. She can be seen as the Ice Skating Opera Diva in the motion picture Death to Smoochy.

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Lauren Ranked on the list of most popular Opera Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Lauren Flanigan celebrates birthday on May 18 of every year.