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Dawn Upshaw
[Upshaw (born July 17], [[1960 in Nashville, Tennessee), is an American soprano. The recipient of several Grammy- Gramophone-, and Edison Prize-winning discs, Upshaw is at home both in opera and art song, and in repertoire from Baroque to contemporary; many composers, including John Harbison have written for her, and she has worked repeatedly with the director Peter Sellars, in his staging of Händel's Theodora at Glyndebourne; his Paris production of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress (1996); and a staging of Bach's cantata BWV 199, presented in the 1995-96 season at New York's 92nd Street Y.
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