Personal Info
Dawn Upshaw
Acting
Biography
Dawn Upshaw (born July 17, 1960) is an American soprano. She is the recipient of several Grammy Awards and has released a number of Edison Award-winning discs; she performs both opera and art song, and her repertoire spans Baroque to contemporary. Many composers, including Henri Dutilleux, Osvaldo Golijov, John Harbison, Esa-Pekka Salonen, John Adams, and Kaija Saariaho, have written for her. In 2007, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.
Dawn Upshaw was born in Nashville, Tennessee. She began singing while attending Rich East High School in Park Forest, Illinois and was the only female eve…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
The Greatest Game Ever Played
as Soprano
Saariaho: L'Amour de Loin
as Clemence
John Adams: El Niño
as Soprano
The Rake’s Progress
as Anne Truelove
Theodora
as Theodora
Letter to Peter, on Saint François d'Assise by Olivier Messiaen
as Self - Soprano
Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress
as Ann
Siegfried
as Waldvogel
Don Giovanni
as Zerlina
Ariadne auf Naxos
as Echo
