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Sylvia McNair was born on 23 June, 1956 in Mansfield, Ohio, US, is an American opera singer. Discover Sylvia McNair'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 67 years old?

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Occupation opera, classical, Broadway, and jazz singer
Age 67 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 23 June, 1956
Birthday 23 June
Birthplace Mansfield, Ohio, US
Nationality United States

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1915

Sylvia McNair has made over 70 recordings, including many complete operas (including Ilia in Mozart's Idomeneo, re di Creta, Poppea in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea, both under the direction of Sir John Eliot Gardiner with the English Baroque Soloists for the ARCHIV label), and Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915.

She has also recorded a number of recitals, ranging from "Mozart arias" with Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields to CDs with André Previn of music by Jerome Kern and Harold Arlen (Sure Thing and Come Rain or Come Shine).

The Previn collaboration also yielded a CD of Andre's works called From Ordinary Things, including: Four Songs and Two Remembrances with lyrics by Toni Morrison, Vocalise with cellist Yo Yo Ma, and well as the Cello Sonata, again with Yo Yo Ma and the composer at the piano throughout.

McNair's awards and honors include the following:

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1956

Sylvia McNair (born June 23, 1956) is an American opera singer and classical recitalist who has also achieved notable success in the Broadway and cabaret genres.

McNair, a soprano, has made several critically acclaimed recordings and has won two Grammy Awards.

Sylvia McNair was born in Mansfield, Ohio, the daughter of George and Marilou McNair.

She attended and graduated from Lexington High School, just south of Mansfield.

As a youth, she studied violin.

She originally enrolled in the undergraduate music program at Wheaton College in Illinois as a violin major, but was encouraged by a violin instructor there to study voice as well.

She commenced vocal studies at Wheaton with Margarita Evans, and finding herself more suited to singing, discontinued violin as her major.

1978

She earned a Bachelor of Music degree in 1978 from Wheaton and subsequently a Master of Music with Distinction in 1983 from Indiana University School of Music (now the Jacobs School of Music), where she studied voice with Virginia MacWatters, John Wustman, and Virginia Zeani.

1980

McNair made her professional concert debut in 1980 with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.

1982

Her operatic debut, in 1982, was as Sandrina in Haydn's L'infedeltà delusa with the Mostly Mozart Festival.

She appeared regularly at the Vienna State Opera, the Salzburg Festival, Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, the Santa Fe Opera, the San Francisco Opera, and at the Metropolitan Opera, and has soloed with many major European and American orchestras.

1985

McNair said that Dutoit "tried to have his way" with her after a March 1985 rehearsal with the Minnesota Orchestra.

1986

McNair married conductor Hal France in 1986.

The couple are now divorced.

1990

Since the late 1990s, McNair has changed the focus of her singing career to Broadway and jazz styles.

In these genres she has achieved considerable critical acclaim and commercial success.

2005

—Rex Reed, 2005

2006

From 2006 to 2017, McNair was part of the voice faculty of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, her alma mater.

She taught English diction (IPA), opera workshop, and has taught private lessons to a few female singers and a tenor.

She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006.

Her treatments have included mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation therapy.

2012

From 2012 to 2017, McNair has served as a judge and mentor for the Songbook Academy, a summer intensive for high school students operated by the Great American Songbook Foundation and founded by Michael Feinstein.

She has also written many children books about countries and the U.S.A.

"Her phrasing is exemplary. Her modulations are inspired. Her time is enviable. . . . I could get used to this kind of ecstasy."

2017

In December 2017, McNair came forward as one of several women accusing famed conductor Charles Dutoit of sexual assault.