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Joy Davidson was born on 18 August, 1937 in United States, is an American opera singer (1937–2023). Discover Joy Davidson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

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Born 18 August, 1937
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1937

Joy Davidson (August 18, 1937 – February 5, 2023) was an American operatic mezzo-soprano, actress, and pedagogue.

She performed internationally in many of the world's great opera houses.

A native of Fort Collins, Colorado, Davidson was a graduate of Fort Collins High School.

1959

She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Occidental College in 1959.

She worked briefly as an elementary school music teacher before pursuing graduate studies in opera at Florida State University with Elena Nikolaidi.

She attended the UCLA Summer Opera Program where she was a student of Jan Popper.

She later studied with Irma McDaniels and Daniel Harris in Miami.

1965

Davidson made her professional opera debut in 1965 in the title role of Rossini's La Cenerentola with the Miami Opera.

That same year she was engaged by the Metropolitan Opera National Company with whom she toured the United States in performances for the next two years.

Among the roles she portrayed with the company was the title role in Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia.

1967

In 1967 Davidson won first prize in the Sofia International Opera Singers Competition.

1969

In 1969 she made her debut at the New York City Opera as Kontschakowna in Borodin's Prince Igor and made her first appearance at the San Francisco Opera as The Secretary in Menotti's The Consul.

That same year she portrayed Sister Jeanne in the United States premiere of The Devils of Loudun at the Santa Fe Opera.

1970

In 1970 she returned to San Francisco to portray the title heroine in Bizet's Carmen (with Plácido Domingo), and appeared at Philharmonic Hall as the First Angel in Mendelssohn's Elijah with the New York Philharmonic under conductor Lukas Foss.

1971

In 1971 Davidson made her debut at La Scala as Delilah to Pier Miranda Ferraro's Samson in Samson and Delilah.

That same year she returned to the NYCO to portray Carmen to Michele Molese's Don José under Julius Rudel in Tito Capobianco's production.

1972

She portrayed The Secretary again for her debuts at the Festival dei Due Mondi and the Spoleto Festival USA in 1972.

1973

Engagements in leading roles with opera houses internationally followed, including the Baltimore Opera, the Bavarian State Opera, Dallas Opera, the Dutch National Opera, the Edmonton Opera, the Fort Worth Opera, Opera Guild of Greater Miami (Carmen, opposite Franco Corelli and Norman Treigle in his last Escamillo, 1973), the Liceu, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Agnese di Hohenstaufen, with Leyla Gencer, conducted by Riccardo Muti, 1974), the New Orleans Opera (Carmen), the Sofia National Opera, the Opéra National de Lyon, the Seattle Opera, the Teatro di San Carlo, the Teatro Regio Turino, the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Tulsa Opera, and the Welsh National Opera among others.

1974

In 1974 she made her debut at the Vienna State Opera as Carmen and was also seen at that house as Preziosilla in La forza del destino.

1976

In 1976 Davidson created the role of Hannah Bilby in the world premiere of Carlisle Floyd's Bilby's Doll at the Houston Grand Opera.

That same year she made her debut at the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Clarice in The Love for Three Oranges and her debut with the Metropolitan Opera as Adalgisa in Norma (opposite Shirley Verrett).

1978

She returned to Chicago in 1978 to create the role of Sin in the world premiere of Penderecki's Paradise Lost, which was subsequently seen at La Scala.

1979

In 1979 she created the title role in Garland Anderson's Soyazhe at the Central City Opera.

1995

Miss Davidson's operatic farewell occurred in 1995, at the Florida Grand Opera, as Gertrude in Roméo et Juliette.

Since then, she appeared in the plays MARIA, the life and loves of Maria Callas (by Alma H. Bond) and as the Nurse in the Euripides/Jeffers version of Medea.