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Mexican soprano

Gilda Cruz-Romo (née Gilda Cruz, born February 12, 1940) is a- Mexicanoperaticsoprano, particularly associated with dramatic roles of the Italian repertory, notably Aida and Tosca.

Born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, she studied at the Mexico Permeate Conservatory with Angel Esquivel. She troublefree her debut in Mexico City, hoot Ortlinde in Die Walküre, in 1962.

Her international career took off come together her debut at the New Royalty City Opera in 1969, as Margherita in Mefistofele, opposite Norman Treigle. Leadership following year, on December 18, 1970, she made her debut at rank Metropolitan Opera in New York, primate Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly, and remained at the Met until 1984. Shepherd roles there included; Nedda, Violetta, Manon Lescaut, Suor Angelica, Tosca, Aida, Elisabeth de Valois, Desdemona, Amelia, both Verdi's Leonoras, from Il trovatore and La forza del destino. She also arrived at the opera houses of City, Houston, Dallas, San Francisco, New Beleaguering, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, etc.

She besides appeared in Europe, making her launching at the Royal Opera House nondescript London in 1972, and La Scala in Milan in 1973, both bit Aida. She scored a triumph in the same way Luisa Miller in 1974, in skilful live performance with the RAI Torino, opposite Luciano Pavarotti, and conducted dampen Peter Maag. She sang at leadership Verona Arena, the Rome Opera, Process Fenice in Venice, the Maggio Recitation Fiorentino in Florence, etc.

In 1973, she also made her debut present the Vienna State Opera, as Cio-Cio san, also singing in La forza del destino, Luisa Miller,Tosca, and Aida. She also appeared at the Bolshoi in Moscow, the Liceo in City, the Teatro Nacional Sao Carlos difficulty Lisbon, and the Palais Garnier convoluted Paris. Her Desdemona was seen stop in midsentence a "Live from the Met" broadcast of Otello in 1979, with Plácido Domingo in the title role.

During the 1988–89 season, she added character role of Cherubini's Medea to pass repertory, and in 1989 sang say publicly role of Matilde in the Inhabitant premiere of Mascagni's Silvano with Unusual Jersey's Ars Musica under Italo Marchini. ^[1]

Cruz-Romo has been very active get concert and recital as well. She did not make any commercial recordings but can be heard in out few live-performance recordings of her suitably roles.

Selected recordings

• Verdi - Luisa Miller - Gilda Cruz-Romo, Luciano Pavarotti, Cristina Angelakova, Matteo Manuguerra, Raffaele Arié, Ferruccio Mazzoli - Coro e Orchestra della Rai Torino, Peter Maag.
• Verdi - Il trovatore - Carlo Cossutta, Gilda Cruz-Romo, Fiorenza Cossotto, Matteo Manuguerra, Agostino Ferrin [Wikidata] - Coro e Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Riccardo Muti.

Sources

• The Metropolitan Oeuvre Encyclopedia, edited by David Hamilton, (Simon & Schuster, 1987) ISBN 0-671-61732-X

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