Janet Perry

Janet Perry (born December 27, 1947, Minneapolis, Minnesota) is a celebrated operatic soprano. In 1959, aged 11, she was seen in a stage-version of The Wizard of Oz, at the St Paul Civic Opera. Following high school, she matriculated at the Curtis Institute of Music, under the tutelage of Mme Eufemia Giannini Gregory.

Having earned her Bachelor of Music, she left for Europe, where she debuted at the Linz Opera, as Zerlina in Don Giovanni, in 1969. In subsequent seasons, Perry was featured in most of the Continent's major opera houses, as well as most of its famed festivals, including those of Salzburg, Glyndebourne, Aix-en-Provence and Bregenz.

She also played principal roles in many opera and operetta productions for television and film: Zürich opera productions of Monteverdi's Poppea and Ulisse under Ponnelle/Harnoncourt, Salzburg Festival's Rosenkavalier and Falstaff under Herbert von Karajan and the Ponnelle/Böhm Le Nozze di Figaro.

Abridged discography

• Smetana: The Bartered Bride [as Esmaralda] {in German} (Stratas, Kollo; Krombholc, 1975) Eurodisc
• Verdi: Falstaff [as Nannetta] (Kabaivanska, Ludwig, Araiza, Taddei; Karajan, 1980) Philips
• Mozart: Die Zauberflöte [as Papagena] (Mathis, Ott, Araiza, van Dam; Karajan, 1980) Deutsche Grammophon
• Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten (Harnoncourt, 1980) Teldec
• Mozart: "Great" Mass in C minor (Hendricks, Schreier, Luxon; Karajan, 1982) Deutsche Grammophon
• R.Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier [as Sophie] (Tomowa-Sintow, Baltsa, Moll; Karajan, 1982) Deutsche Grammophon
• Beethoven: Ninth Symphony (Baltsa, Cole, van Dam; Karajan, 1983) Deutsche Grammophon
• Bruckner: Te Deum (Karajan, 1984) Deutsche Grammophon
• Mercadante: Il bravo (Aprea, 1990) [live] Nuova Era

Abridged videography

• Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro [as Barbarina] (Freni, Te Kanawa, Ewing, Prey, Fischer-Dieskau; Böhm, Ponnelle, 1976)
• Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria [as Melanto] (Hollweg, Schmidt, Araiza, Estes; Harnoncourt, Ponnelle, 1979)
• Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea [as Drusilla] (Yakar, Tappy, Araiza, Salminen; Harnoncourt, Ponnelle, 1980)
• Verdi: Falstaff (Kabaivanska, Ludwig, Araiza, Taddei; Karajan, Karajan, 1982) [live]
• R.Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (Tomowa-Sintow, Baltsa, Moll; Karajan, Karajan, 1984) [live]
• J.Strauß II: Die Fledermaus [as Adele] (Coburn, Faßbaender, Wächter; C.Kleiber, Schenk, 1987) [live]

External links

• Janet Perry in an excerpt from Der Rosenkavalier (1984) on YouTube.
• The Essential Janet Perry [1].