soprano, and the daughter of the
bass-baritone
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Norman Treigle
Norman Treigle (né Adanelle Wilfred Treigle (March 6, 1927February 16, 1975) was an American operatic bass-baritone, who was acclaimed for his great abilities as a singing-actor, and specialized in roles that evoked villainy and terror.
Biograp ...
. She graduated from
Loyola University of the South's College of Music and made her professional debut with the
New Orleans Opera
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Association as Flora Bervoix, in ''
La traviata
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'', in 1980.
Treigle subsequently appeared with the
New York City Opera
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The opera company, du ...
(as Miss Jessel in ''
The Turn of the Screw
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'', conducted by
Christopher Keene
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Early life and education
Keene was born in 1946 in Berkeley, California, the son of Yvonne (née Cyr) and Jim Keene. His mother was of Acadian, German, and Scott ...
),
Dublin Grand Opera Society
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,
Houston Grand Opera
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(Bekhetaten in the American premiere of ''
Akhnaten''), New Orleans Opera (''
Der fliegende Holländer
' (''The Flying Dutchman''), WWV 63, is a German-language opera, with libretto and music by Richard Wagner. The central theme is redemption through love. Wagner conducted the premiere at the Königliches Hoftheater Dresden in 1843.
Wagner ...
''),
Pittsburgh Opera
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(in
Tito Capobianco's production of ''Mefistofele'', originally mounted for her father),
Sarasota Opera
Sarasota Opera is a professional opera company in Sarasota, Florida, USA, which
was founded as the Asolo Opera Guild and, until 1974, presented a visiting company's productions. Between 1974 and 1979, it set about mounting its own productions in ...
Association,
The New Opera Theatre,
Skylight Opera Theatre (Donna Elvira in ''
Don Giovanni
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'', directed by
Francesca Zambello
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Born in New York City, Zambello lived in Europe when ...
),
Wolf Trap Opera Company
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(''
Transformations'' and ''
Postcard from Morocco''), Eugene Opera, New York Opera Repertory Theatre,
Pennsylvania Opera Theater, and Jefferson Performing Arts Society (''
Susannah
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'', opposite
Michael Devlin). She also sang the first New Orleans performances of ''
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*Sāvitrī, a name of the ''Gayatri Mantra'' dedicated to Savitr
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'' and ''
La voix humaine
' (English: ''The Human Voice'') is a forty-minute, one-act opera for soprano and orchestra composed by Francis Poulenc in 1958. The work is based on the play of the same name by Jean Cocteau, who, along with French soprano Denise Duval, worked ...
''.
At Sarasota, she appeared in ''The Turn of the Screw'', Rosalinde von Eisenstein in ''
Die Fledermaus
' (, ''The Flittermouse'' or ''The Bat'', sometimes called ''The Revenge of the Bat'') is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée, which premiered in 1874.
Background
The original li ...
'', Mina in ''
Aroldo
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'', Amelia in ''
Un ballo in maschera
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Th ...
'', and Amelia Grimaldi in both versions of ''
Simon Boccanegra
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''.
In 1997, Treigle portrayed the title role in the original version of Cherubini's ''
Médée'' for
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at
Alice Tully Hall
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,
Lincoln Center
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in New York City. , Treigle is Chair of Vocal Music at the
New Orleans Center for Creative Arts
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(NOCCA). After an hiatus of some ten years, she returned to the stage in the cameo role of Annina in ''La traviata'', for the New Orleans Opera, in April 2009. She portrayed Marthe Schwertlein in ''
Faust
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'' for the same company in 2017 with
Paul Groves in the name part, and she opened their 2017/2018 season as Lucia in ''
Cavalleria rusticana
''Cavalleria rusticana'' (; Italian for "rustic chivalry") is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from an 1880 Cavalleria rusticana (short story), short story of ...
''.
In 2019, Treigle performed the part of the Reciter in ''Pierrot lunaire'', at the
Marigny Opera House.
Discography
* Cherubini: ''
Médée'' (St Julien, Fortunato; Folse, 1997)
Newport Classic
Sources
* Brian Morgan: ''Strange Child of Chaos: Norman Treigle'', iUniverse, 2006.
*Fisher, Florence
Sarasota Opera Shines In Strauss' Classic ''Sarasota Herald-Tribune'', February 15, 1989
*''The Advocate'' (Baton Rouge, La.)
Opera singer follows in father's footsteps December 10, 1986
*Waleson, Heidi
''The New York Times'', October 30, 1988
External links
*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Treigle, Phyllis
1960 births
Living people
American operatic sopranos
Musicians from New Orleans
Loyola University New Orleans alumni
Singers from Louisiana
20th-century American women opera singers
21st-century American women opera singers