The role of the Composer has been sung there most often by a mezzo-soprano ( at least 64 times ), including, besides Kerstin Meyer, who sang the role 6 times, Tatiana Troyanos ( 19 appearances from 1976 to 1988 ), Susanne Mentzer ( 20 appearances from 1993 to 2003 ), Susan Graham ( 5 appearances in the fall of 2005 ) and Sarah Connolly ( 5 appearances in the winter of 2010 ).

After debuts in Chicago, Dallas, Boston, and in San Francisco — where the Chronicles Robert Commanday wrote of her appearance in Monteverdi's L ' incoronazione di Poppea, " The means by which Poppea seduces Nero ... could liquefy even stone the way the sensational new mezzo soprano Tatiana Troyanos sang "— she returned to New York to make her Metropolitan Opera debut as Octavian, closely followed by the Composer, in the spring of 1976.

Other roles Troyanos sang on opera stages in the course of her career included

In 1994, the Metropolitan Opera performed a concert in memory of Troyanos ; in his printed eulogy, Music Director James Levine wrote, " The idea that we are gathered here ... to pay memorial tribute to Tatiana Troyanos is incomprehensible.

Throughout the many years at the Lyric, Carol Fox developed the confidence and authority to bring the following world-famous artists to the Lyric: Luciano Pavarotti ( 56 performances in 7 roles ), Tito Gobbi, Eleanor Steber, Jussi Björling, Birgit Nilsson, Renata Tebaldi, Giuseppe di Stefano, Giulietta Simionato, Richard Tucker, Boris Christoff, Eileen Farrell, Dorothy Kirsten, Leonie Rysanek, Leontyne Price, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Geraint Evans, Mirella Freni, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Alfredo Kraus, Renata Scotto, Robert Merrill, Joan Sutherland, Christa Ludwig, Jon Vickers, Marilyn Horne, Grace Bumbry, Monserrat Caballe, Tatiana Troyanos, Sherill Milnes, Plácido Domingo, Felicia Weathers and Jose Carreras.

" Tatiana Troyanos: Flair and Flamboyance ", < i > The Gramophone </ i >, December 2003, accessed August 24, 2012 .</ ref > from 1976 to her death in 1993, she was internationally revered for her uniquely sensual, burnished sound, her versatility and beauty, as well as the thrilling intensity of all her performances.

Troyanos had successfully concealed her illness from the vast majority of her colleagues, having sung her last Met performance — the last of three performances as Waltraute ( a role debut ) to Gwyneth Jones ' Brünnhilde in Wagner's Götterdämmerung — on May 1, 1993.

" Troyanos ' last opera performances were in Richard Strauss ' Capriccio at San Francisco Opera from June 12 to July 1, 1993.

There are DVDs of 10 complete operas featuring Troyanos:

Troyanos was known for her impassioned portrayals of everything from trouser roles to femmes fatales ; asked whether she'd rather play " somebody's mother or some guy " ( i. e., the mezzo's lot ), she once quipped, " I prefer the guys — but maybe a guy who also wears a beautiful dress from time to time.

Tatiana Troyanos died on August 21, 1993, at the age of 54 in New York City from breast cancer which was first diagnosed in the mid-1980s and, about five weeks before her death, was found to have metastasized to her liver.

Troyanos enjoyed an equally versatile career as a recording artist, appearing in the title role of Sir Georg Solti's acclaimed recording of Bizet's Carmen, as Cherubino in Karl Böhm's 1968 recording of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, and as Anita in Leonard Bernstein's high-profile operatic recording of West Side Story, among others.

McCracken made a number of complete opera recordings, including " Le prophète " ( with Marilyn Horne and Renata Scotto, ( Col / CBS ), c1976 ), " Carmen " ( conducted by Leonard Bernstein, ( DG ), 1972 ), " Fidelio " ( with Birgit Nilsson, ( Decca / London ), 1964 ), " Otello " ( with Dame Gwyneth Jones, ( EMI / Angel ), 1968 ) and " Pagliacci ", on which side 4 of the original LP version was a recital of opera arias, ( Decca / London ), ( 1967 ), as well as Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder ( with Jessye Norman, Tatiana Troyanos and David Arnold, ( Phi ), 1979 ), and a program of Irish and Scottish songs with piano ( EMI / Angel ), 1977.

After a long run in the chorus in the original Broadway production of The Sound of Music, Troyanos was engaged by the New York City Opera and made her professional operatic debut in April 1963 as Hippolyta in the New York premiere production of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Other important commercial recordings include Rigoletto with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Carlo Bergonzi under Rafael Kubelík, Turandot with Birgit Nilsson and Franco Corelli under Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, I Pagliacci with José Carreras, Cavalleria rusticana with Plácido Domingo, Norma with Tatiana Troyanos, Otello ( Verdi's ), Adriana Lecouvreur and Andrea Chénier.

** Richard Mohr ( producer ), Erich Leinsdorf ( conductor ), Ezio Flagello, Sherrill Milnes, Leontyne Price, Judith Raskin, George Shirley, Tatiana Troyanos & the New Philharmonia Orchestra for Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte

** Richard Mohr ( producer ), Erich Leinsdorf ( conductor ), Ezio Flagello, Sherrill Milnes, Leontyne Price, Judith Raskin, George Shirley, Tatiana Troyanos & the New Philharmonia Orchestra for Mozart: Così fan tutte

From 1981 to 1983, Troyanos appeared in all three season opening nights at the Met —" typically enough ," James Levine, the conductor for all three, noted, " in three different styles and languages "— as Adalgisa in Bellini's Norma in 1981 ( opposite Renata Scotto ), Octavian in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier in 1982 ( opposite Kiri Te Kanawa ), and Didon in Berlioz's Les Troyens in 1983 ( with Jessye Norman and Plácido Domingo ).

Among notable singers who were never engaged by Sir Rudolf were Patricia Brooks, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Maureen Forrester, Leyla Gencer, Chester Ludgin, Patricia Neway, Magda Olivero, Mirto Picchi, Miriam Pirazzini, Arlene Saunders, Nancy Shade, Rita Shane, Sills, Norman Treigle, Tatiana Troyanos, and Beverly Wolff.

* Mozart: Così fan tutte ( with L. Price, Troyanos, Raskin, Shirley, Flagello – Leinsdorf, cond.

* Auger, Janowitz and Troyanos in Concert – Handel, Mozart, Strauss ( Eichhorn, live 1968, Originals / Bella Voce )

* Troyanos and Valente – Handel and Mozart, Arias & Duets ( Rudel, 1991, MusicMasters / Musical Heritage )

* Verdi: Don Carlos ( Scotto, Troyanos, Moldoveanu, Plishka, Hines ; Levine, cond., Dexter, dir.

* Tatiana Troyanos in Recital – Schumann, " Frauenliebe und-leben "; Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Rossini, Bizet, Mahler ( Levine, piano, live 1985, VAI, released 1999 )

Troyanos, who died twenty-two days before her 55th birthday, was one of three female opera stars of international stature who succumbed to cancer in 1993 in or near their 54th year ; the others were sopranos Lucia Popp and Arleen Auger.

* 1938 – Tatiana Troyanos, American soprano ( d. 1993 )

Performers include Johnny Otis and Tatiana Troyanos.

During its nearly 70 year history, the NYCO has helped launch the careers of many great opera singers including Beverly Sills, Sherrill Milnes, Plácido Domingo, Carol Vaness, José Carreras, Shirley Verrett, Tatiana Troyanos, Jerry Hadley, Catherine Malfitano, Bejun Mehta, Samuel Ramey, and Gianna Rolandi.

Orpheus has collaborated with many of the great artists of our time including Isaac Stern, Gidon Kremer, Itzhak Perlman, Gil Shaham, Yo-Yo Ma, Mischa Maisky, Emanuel Ax, Richard Goode, Alicia de Larrocha, Radu Lupu, Martha Argerich, Alfred Brendel, Horacio Gutierrez, Murray Perahia, Peter Serkin, Mitsuko Uchida, Tatiana Troyanos, Maureen Forrester, Frederica von Stade, Peter Schreier, Anne Sofie von Otter, Dawn Upshaw, and Renée Fleming.

Tatiana Troyanos ( September 12, 1938 – August 21, 1993 ) was an American mezzo-soprano of Greek and German descent.

Born in New York City, Troyanos grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, where she attended Forest Hills High School.

Troyanos continued her musical studies at Juilliard and privately with voice teacher Hans Heinz, whom she called " the major influence in my life.

" Troyanos has a sumptuous voice, a very sharp intelligence, enormous ambition, and do-or-die determination to be a great artist ," observed British record producer Walter Legge.

" The star of the show was Miss Troyanos ... the most aristocratic Octavian at the Met in years ," wrote Speight Jenkins in a review of the Rosenkavalier in the New York Post.

" Troyanos ' voice was the kind you recognize after one bar, and never forget ," wrote Cori Ellison in Opera News.

Troyanos was also active as a song recitalist, both solo ( she made her Carnegie Hall recital debut in 1978 ) and, later in her career, in partnership with the soprano Benita Valente.

Norman, who once notably sang it at the end of a large outdoor rock concert for Nelson Mandela's 70th birthday, stated, " I don't know whether it's the text — I don't know whether we're talking about the lyrics when we say that it touches so many people — or whether it's that tune that everybody knows.

Twain's mainstream pop acceptance was further helped by her appearance in the 1998 first edition of the VH1 Divas concert where she sang alongside Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan and Aretha Franklin, and also by VH1's 1999 heavily aired Behind the Music, which concentrated on the tragic aspects of her early life as well as her physical attractiveness and Nashville's early resistance to her bare-midriff music videos.

In concert, Burnel returned to singing the songs he originally recorded as lead vocalist, and Warne sang the numbers originally led by Hugh Cornwell.

Ultimately the controversy was such that John Denver cancelled a concert shortly thereafter, but when Denver returned for a 1980 concert, he set a one-show attendance record at the venue, Centennial Hall, and sang the song as well to the approval of the crowd.

However, she refused to accept this and with the help of vocal and dance lessons ( most notably with Sam Harris, Angela Bacari ), which she still takes daily, managed to recover and returned to the stage in 2001 when asked by long-time friend Michael Jackson to perform at Madison Square Garden in New York City where she sang " Never Never Land " and the televised " You Are Not Alone " at the Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Special concert produced by soon to be husband David Gest.

With the aid of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt, Anderson performed a critically acclaimed open-air concert on Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C. She sang before a crowd of more than 75, 000 people and a radio audience in the millions.

* Joni Mitchell sang the song for AT & T's concert for the benefit of the Walden Woods Project and the Thoreau Institute.

During the concert, which also included veteran gospel singers Barry McGuire, The Archers, The Happy Goodman Family, The Speer Family, James Blackwood, James Cleveland, Doug Oldham, Mighty Clouds of Joy, and Shirley Caesar, Norman sang his " The Great American Novel ", " a Dylanesque protest song ", which he admitted " wasn't received with much enthusiasm ".

* Bette Midler sang the lyrics in her concert film Divine Madness !.

About this time Pryce sang at The Hollywood Bowl alongside opera singer Lesley Garrett in highlights from My Fair Lady and in 1998, he performed in Cameron Mackintosh's gala concert Hey, Mr Producer !, also as Professor Henry Higgins from My Fair Lady and reprising his role as the Engineer from Miss Saigon.

On July 11, 2007, Latifah sang at the famed Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles as the headlining act in a live jazz concert.

Burke sang " Turn on Your Love Light " and " Down in the Valley " in the " Salute to the Blues " concert at New York's Radio City Music Hall on February 7, 2003, celebrating " the centennial of ' Father of the Blues ' W. C. Handy ’ s first, fortuitous encounter with ' the weirdest music I had ever heard ', a Tutwiler, Mississippi, black man ’ s sliding a knifeblade across guitar strings to sing about ' where the Southern cross the Dog '.

On September 28, 2006, Burke was among the several rock, soul, and country legends who sang along with Jerry Lee Lewis at the live concert " Last Man Standing " at the Sony Music Studio in New York.

Though James and Knowles were later seen at a red carpet event following the film's release embracing each other, James expressed her displeasure with Knowles at a Seattle concert in January 2009, a few days after Knowles sang her song, " At Last ", at the first inaugural ball for Barack Obama.

In September 2006, he appeared in a radio interview with Gerard Gilroy on The Breakfast Show on Dublin's Newstalk 106, pushed his book on The Tubridy Tonight Show on RTE1, and sang and spoke to Grant Lauchlan of stv. tv, where he revealed that he would like to play a concert in the future at Scotland's Edinburgh Castle.

* Jones sang " Maybe I'm Amazed " with Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters at the Kennedy Center Honors Paul McCartney concert with Paul in attendance.

Following the September 11 attacks, Dion returned to the music scene, and in a televised performance sang " God Bless America " at the benefit concert America: A Tribute to Heroes.

* At the 2005 London Live 8 concert Coldplay's Chris Martin sang the chorus to " Rockin ' All Over the World " in their song, " In My Place ", in reference to Status Quo having opened Live Aid with " Rockin ' All Over The World "

In 2005, the remaining members reunited for a benefit concert for victims of the December 26, 2004 tsunami, with several vocalists filling in for Staley, including Patrick Lachman from Damageplan, Phil Anselmo of Pantera and Down fame, Wes Scantlin from Puddle of Mudd, Maynard James Keenan from Tool ( a friend of Staley's ), and Ann Wilson from Heart, who had previously worked with Alice in Chains when she sang on the Sap EP ( performing backing vocals on the songs " Brother " and " Am I Inside ").

She last sang in public in October 1914, taking part in a Red Cross concert at London's Royal Albert Hall that had been organized to aid victims of World War I.

In December 1845, the day after her debut at the Leipzig Gewandhaus under the baton of Mendelssohn, she sang without fee for a charity concert in aid of the Orchestra Widows ' Fund.

* Joanie Phoanie: An unabashed Communist radical and agitator, who sang revolutionary songs of class warfare ( with burlesque titles like " Molotov Cocktails for Two ") — while hypocritically traveling via Limousine and charging outrageous concert appearance fees to impoverished orphans.

Hook also contributed backing vocals on numerous Joy Division songs in concert and sang co-lead with Ian Curtis on live versions of Joy Division's " Interzone " and sings lead on two New Order songs (" Dreams Never End " and " Doubts Even Here " from the 1981 debut album Movement ).

For a few years in the late 1990s, he toured a concert version of Porgy and Bess, partly in honor of his father, who sang the role for Sidney Poitier in the 1959 film version, and partly " to preserve the score's jazziness " in the face of " largely white orchestras " who tend not " to play around the bar lines, to stretch and bend ".