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Deborah Sasson, whose real name is Deborah Ann O'Brien, is an American operatic soprano and musical theatre actress mostly active in Germany.
List of successes
/ref> Sasson gives solo concerts with her own ensemble and performs in a duo programme with the opera singer Gunther Emmerlich.
''Das Phantom der Oper''
List of hits
Deborah Sasson
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Deborah Sasson, whose real name is Deborah Ann O'Brien, is an American operatic soprano and musical theatre actress mostly active in Germany.
Life and career
Sasson was born in Boston. As a teenager she sang in a high school band. After high school she studied classical singing at Oberlin College inOberlin, Ohio
Oberlin is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States, 31 miles southwest of Cleveland. Oberlin is the home of Oberlin College, a liberal arts college and music conservatory with approximately 3,000 students.
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and graduated with a "Master of Music". She had her first engagement at the Metropolitan Opera
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of New York
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. She made her debut on Broadway
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in ''Show Boat
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,'' whereupon in 1982 Leonard Bernstein
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cast her in the role of Maria in the Hamburg
Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...
production of ''West Side Story
''West Side Story'' is a musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents.
Inspired by William Shakespeare's play ''Romeo and Juliet'', the story is set in the mid- ...
''.
Sasson was married to the opera singer Peter Hofmann
Peter Hofmann (22 August 1944 – 30 November 2010) was a German tenor who had a successful performance career within the fields of opera, rock, pop, and musical theatre. He first rose to prominence as a heldentenor at the Bayreuth festival's ...
from 1983 to 1990; her first husband was the conductor Michel Sasson. A duet version of '' Scarborough Fair'' with Hofmann can be found on her double platinum album ''Rock Classics'' (1982).
In 1988 Sasson developed a pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. The terms ''popular music'' and ''pop music'' are often used interchangeably, although the former describ ...
concept with the producers Achim Völker and Horst Vay. Since then she has released numerous pop CDs. With ''(Carmen) Danger in Her Eyes'' and ''Passion and Pain'', Sasson achieved two top 40 hits in Germany in 1989./ref> Sasson gives solo concerts with her own ensemble and performs in a duo programme with the opera singer Gunther Emmerlich.
Recordings
''Das Phantom der Oper''
List of hits
References
External links
Deborah Sasson
Home page * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sasson, Deborah Living people Musicians from Boston German musical theatre actresses American operatic sopranos American women pop singers Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women