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Dorothy Warenskjold

Dorothy Lorayne Warenskjold (May 11, 1921 in Piedmont, California – December 27, 2010 in Lenexa, Kansas) was an American lyric soprano who had an active career in operas, concerts, Radio and Television, and recitals from the mid-1940s through the early 1970s. She made several recordings for Capitol Records.

Early years

Born in Piedmont, California, Warenskjold was the daughter Mr. and Mrs. William Earl Warenskjold. Her paternal grandfather immigrated from Norway. Her mother, Mildred Stombs, was a professional musician.

She grew up in Oakland, California. Planning to be an attorney, she pursued pre-legal training at Mills College in Oakland until her junior year, when Mabel Riegelman began giving her vocal lessons.

Career

As an opera singer, she worked mainly with the San Francisco Opera (SFO) where she made her debut in October 1948 as Nannetta in Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff. She performed with the SFO for the next eight consecutive seasons, performing such roles as Antonia in The Tales of Hoffmann, Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, Liù in Turandot, Marzelline in Fidelio, Micaëla in Carmen, Mimì in La bohème, Pamina in The Magic Flute, and Sophie in Werther. Her final appearance at the SFO was in October 1955 as Sophie in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf as the Marschallin and Frances Bible as Octavian.

Warenskjold also appeared as a guest artist with several American opera companies and toured the United States with a few traveling opera companies. In addition to her work on stage, she also performed regularly on the radio and on television during the 1940s and 1950s. She was frequently heard on the programs Harvest of Stars, The Voice of Firestone and The Railroad Hour. In 1950, she performed the roles of Antonia and Stella in the NBC Opera Theatre's television production of The Tales of Hoffmann. After retiring from singing in 1972, she joined the voice faculty of the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture where she taught for many years as an adjunct faculty member.

Recordings

Eight recordings of Warenskjold were released--four during her career, and four more based on archival material after her retirement. One recording during her career for which examples are available is her 1954 LP recording for Capitol Records Songs of Grieg and Dvorak, George Greeley conducting the Concert Arts Orchestra (P-8247). It contained eight songs by Grieg. and seven gypsy songs and 4 love songs by Dvorak. A related EP containing two songs by each composer was also released (Capitol FAP-8250). (Curiously the EP reversed the composers' names.) She made a Capitol record recording with Gordon MacRae of “The Student Prince.” Capitol also later released an album of solo songs with piano, "On Wings of Song". In 1979, seven years after her retirement, Grand Prix Records released an LP entitled "A Recital Experience with Dorothy Warenskjold", from archival live performance recordings. Grand Prix followed this in 1984 with an album of Mozart and other Opera Arias. The original LP's of these are difficult to find. However, they are also digitally available from the Cambria Music Amazon store (though not at present on the Cambria Music website) in MP3 format., and from eClassical in the higher-fidelity FLAC 16. Cambria music themselves released two additional archival Warenskjold CD recordings: "The Golden Years of Broadcast Music" in 1999, and a "A Treasury of Operatic Heroines" in 2009. These two CDs were from materials digitally restored by Lance Bowling of Cambria Music, in corrdination with Warenskjold herself. Both are still available on the Cambria music direct website.

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