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Mignon Dunn dies. · Spoken News

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to spoken News. I'm a computer. Mignon Dunn Dies
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  Mignon Armisted Dunn was an American dramatic mezzo soprano and
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  voice teacher. In her professional debut in New Orleans in
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  nineteen fifty five, she starred in the title role of
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  Bezetz Carmen, which became one of her signature roles. She
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  performed at leading opera houses of the world, especially at
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  the Metropolitan Opera from nineteen fifty eight to nineteen ninety four.
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  After fifteen years of performing mostly supporting roles there, she
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  had her breakthrough as Asitsina in Verdi's Iltrovitoure, and then
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  performed lead roles in Italian, French, German, and Czech repertoire,
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  including Mia Marie in Prolong's Dialogue de Carmelite, Kundri in
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  Wagner's Parsifal, Herodias in Strauss's Salome, and the Costelnika in
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  Janechek's Jenufa. Dunn taught voice at several music academies of
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  the United States, last doing so as a member of
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  the voice faculty of the Manhattan School of Music from
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  nineteen eighty five to twenty twenty three. That's it for now.
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