Luana DeVol is an American opera

Opera

Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

tic soprano

Soprano

A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...

 who made her Metropolitan Opera

Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera is an opera company, located in New York City. Originally founded in 1880, the company gave its first performance on October 22, 1883. The company is operated by the non-profit Metropolitan Opera Association, with Peter Gelb as general manager...

 debut as Ortrud in April 2007 in Wagner's Lohengrin

Lohengrin (opera)

Lohengrin is a romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner, first performed in 1850. The story of the eponymous character is taken from medieval German romance, notably the Parzival of Wolfram von Eschenbach and its sequel, Lohengrin, written by a different author, itself...

. The production was broadcast internationally on April 29, 2007. She was named "Singer of the Year" in 1997 and 2000 by the German opera magazine Opernwelt

Opernwelt

Opernwelt is a monthly German magazine for opera, operetta and ballet.The magazine covers news about current performances; it presents portraits of composers and performers, articles about opera houses and performance spaces, and about contemporary and historical subjects from the world of opera...

.

Biography

Since the mid 1980s, DeVol has sung primarily in Europe and has enjoyed success in the German repertoire. She graduated from Capuchino High School

Capuchino High School

Capuchino High School is a public high school in San Bruno, California, although the school is surrounded by the city of Millbrae on all but one corner...

 in San Bruno, California, where she grew up, and attended the College of San Mateo

College of San Mateo

College of San Mateo is a community college in San Mateo, California. It is part of the San Mateo County Community College District....

 in San Mateo, California. She had a featured role in a production of Patience

Patience (opera)

Patience; or, Bunthorne's Bride, is a comic opera in two acts with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. First performed at the Opera Comique, London, on 23 April 1881, it moved to the 1,292-seat Savoy Theatre on 10 October 1881, where it was the first theatrical production in the...

by Gilbert and Sullivan, the very first performances by the San Mateo Community Theatre

San Mateo Community Theatre

San Mateo Community Theatre was begun in 1963 by the Parks & Recreation Department of the City of San Mateo in California to present summer productions with local high school and college students. It was later renamed Peninsula Civic Light Opera and today is known as Broadway by the Bay....

, in the summer of 1963.

She was a featured soloist with the Masterworks Chorale

Masterworks Chorale

Masterworks Chorale is a choral ensemble based in San Mateo, California.-About Masterworks Chorale:Masterworks Chorale is one of the oldest choruses in Northern California. Founded in 1964 by Galen Marshall , and currently conducted by Dr...

 in San Mateo under the direction of Galen Marshall, and sang in a great variety of choral works, especially by Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...

 and Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...

. DeVol appeared with the San Francisco Symphony

San Francisco Symphony

The San Francisco Symphony is an orchestra based in San Francisco, California. Since 1980, the orchestra has performed at the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall. The San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony Chorus are part of the organization...

 and the San Francisco Opera

San Francisco Opera

San Francisco Opera is an American opera company, based in San Francisco, California.It was founded in 1923 by Gaetano Merola and is the second largest opera company in North America...

. She moved to Germany in 1984 to further pursue her career, giving numerous operatic performances there.

DeVol has been featured on recordings released by the Bayer Music Group.

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