Everything about Anne Brown totally explained
Soprano Anne Wiggins Brown, born
August 9,
1912, created the role of Bess in
George Gershwin's folk opera
Porgy and Bess in
1935. She was also a radio and concert star.
Biography
A native of
Baltimore, Maryland, she trained at
Morgan College and then continued on to the esteemed New Institute of Musical Art (now known as the
Juilliard School) in
New York. After her appearance as the first Bess, she appeared in the
Broadway play
Mamba's Daughters and in the film
Rhapsody in Blue. She appeared in various revivals of
Porgy as well and toured as a concert artist from
1942 to
1948 when she settled in
Oslo, Norway, after meeting and marrying Norwegian olympic ski-jumper
Thorleif Schjelderup. She continued working as a professional musician into the 1950s on productions like
Menotti's
The Medium and
The Telephone.
Brown later said she felt her singing was better received in
Europe because she mainly sang works by European composers, such as
Brahms,
Schubert,
Schumann and
Mahler. She had to cut her career as a singer short for health reasons, but did work for several years as a song teacher. Among her students were the famous soprano Elisabeth Norberg-Schulz, actress
Liv Ullmann and the ballad singer and former Minister of Culture,
Åse Kleveland. She staged several operas in
France and
Norway. In 1999 she was elected as honorary citizen of Baltimore, the town where, 70 years earlier, she was refused a music education because of her color. In 2000 she was awarded Norway's Council of Cultures Honorary Award.
Brown has been a Norwegian citizen since 1948.
She currently resides in
Oslo.
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