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Ginger Costa-Jackson, the Glossary

Ginger Costa-Jackson (born 10 September 1986, and named Ginger Emilia Jackson) is an Italian-American operatic mezzo-soprano who performs often with the Metropolitan Opera since entering its Lindemann Young Artist Development Program in 2007.^[1]

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Palermo Conservatory alumni

Alban Berg

Alban Maria Johannes Berg (9 February 1885 – 24 December 1935) was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School.

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Andrea Chénier

Andrea Chénier is a verismo opera in four acts by Umberto Giordano, set to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica, and first performed on 28 March 1896 at La Scala, Milan.

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Anna Bolena

Anna Bolena is a tragic opera (tragedia lirica) in two acts composed by Gaetano Donizetti.

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Barbershop quartet

A barbershop quartet is a group of four singers who sing music in the barbershop style, characterized by four-part harmony without instrumental accompaniment, or a cappella.

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Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University (BYU) is a private research university in Provo, Utah, United States.

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Carmen

Carmen is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet.

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Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Cavalleria rusticana

Cavalleria rusticana (Rustic Chivalry) is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from an 1880 short story of the same name and subsequent play by Giovanni Verga.

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Claudio Monteverdi

Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player.

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Così fan tutte

(Women are like that, or The School for Lovers), K. 588, is an opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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Deseret News

The Deseret News is a multi-platform newspaper based in Salt Lake City, published by Deseret News Publishing Company, a subsidiary of Deseret Management Corporation, which is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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English National Opera

English National Opera (ENO) is a British opera company based in London, resident at the London Coliseum in St Martin's Lane.

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Falstaff (opera)

Falstaff is a comic opera in three acts by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi.

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Francesca da Rimini (Zandonai)

Francesca da Rimini, Op. 4, is an opera in four acts, composed by Riccardo Zandonai, with a libretto by, after D'Annunzio's play Francesca da Rimini.

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Francesca Zambello

Francesca Zambello (born August 24, 1956) is an American opera and theatre director.

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Gaetano Donizetti

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer, best known for his almost 70 operas.

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Georges Bizet

Georges Bizet (25 October 18383 June 1875) was a French composer of the Romantic era.

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Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Puccini (22 December 1858 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas.

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Gian Carlo Menotti

Gian Carlo Menotti (July 7, 1911 – February 1, 2007) was an Italian-American composer, librettist, director, and playwright who is primarily known for his output of 25 operas. Ginger Costa-Jackson and Gian Carlo Menotti are Italian emigrants to the United States.

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Gilbert and Sullivan

Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the dramatist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and the composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) and to the works they jointly created.

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Gioachino Rossini

Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces and some sacred music.

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Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas.

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Glimmerglass Festival

The Glimmerglass Festival (formerly known as Glimmerglass Opera) is an American opera company.

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Gotham Chamber Opera

Gotham Chamber Opera was a professional opera company located in New York City.

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Hector Berlioz

Louis-Hector Berlioz (11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer and conductor.

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Idomeneo

(Italian for Idomeneus, King of Crete, or, Ilia and Idamante; usually referred to simply as Idomeneo, K. 366) is an Italian-language opera seria by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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Iolanthe

Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, first performed in 1882.

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Italian Americans

Italian Americans (italoamericani) are Americans who have full or partial Italian ancestry.

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Jacques Offenbach

Jacques Offenbach (20 June 18195 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario.

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James Levine

James Lawrence Levine (June 23, 1943 – March 9, 2021) was an American conductor and pianist.

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John Adams (composer)

John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is an American composer and conductor whose music is rooted in minimalism.

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Jules Massenet

Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet (12 May 1842 – 13 August 1912) was a French composer of the Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty.

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L'incoronazione di Poppea

L'incoronazione di Poppea (SV 308, The Coronation of Poppaea) is an Italian opera by Claudio Monteverdi.

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La Cenerentola

La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo ("Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant") is an operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini.

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La clemenza di Tito

La clemenza di Tito (The Clemency of Titus), K. 621, is an opera seria in two acts composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Caterino Mazzolà, after Pietro Metastasio.

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La fanciulla del West

La fanciulla del West (The Girl of the West) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini, based on the 1905 play The Girl of the Golden West by the American author David Belasco.

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Les Troyens

Les Troyens (in English: The Trojans) is a French grand opera in five acts, running for about five hours, by Hector Berlioz.

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Liceu

The Gran Teatre del Liceu ("Great Theater of the Lyceum"), usually known as El Liceu, is an opera house in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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Lulu (opera)

Lulu (composed from 1929 to 1935, premièred incomplete in 1937 and complete in 1979) is an opera in three acts by Alban Berg.

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Manon

Manon is an opéra comique in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on the 1731 novel L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost.

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Marina Costa-Jackson

Marina Costa-Jackson is an American soprano. Ginger Costa-Jackson and Marina Costa-Jackson are 21st-century American women opera singers, Musicians from Las Vegas and Musicians from Palermo.

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MasterVoices

MasterVoices (formerly the Collegiate Chorale) is a symphonic choir based in New York City, USA.

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Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, currently resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

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Metropolitan Opera Live in HD

Metropolitan Opera Live in HD (also known as The Met: Live in HD) is a series of live opera performances transmitted in high-definition video via satellite from the Metropolitan Opera in New York City to select venues, primarily movie theaters, in the United States and other parts of the world.

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Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions

The Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition (formerly the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions) is an annual singing competition sponsored by the Metropolitan Opera.

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Mezzo-soprano

A mezzo-soprano or mezzo (meaning "half soprano") is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types.

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Michael Ballam

Michael Lynn Ballam (born August 21, 1951) is an American opera singer, educator, and arts administrator.

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Montalto Uffugo

Montalto Uffugo (Calabrian: Muntàvutu) is a city and comune of the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.

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Mosè in Egitto

Mosè in Egitto ("Moses in Egypt") is a three-act opera written by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, which was based on a 1760 play by Francesco Ringhieri, L'Osiride.

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Nixon in China

Nixon in China is an opera in three acts by John Adams with a libretto by Alice Goodman.

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Opera

Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.

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Ottavio Ziino

Ottavio Ziino (11 November 1909 – 1 February 1995) was an Italian composer, conductor and academic. Ginger Costa-Jackson and Ottavio Ziino are Palermo Conservatory alumni.

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Palacio de Bellas Artes

The Palacio de Bellas Artes (Palace of Fine Arts) is a prominent cultural center in Mexico City.

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Palais Garnier

The italic (Garnier Palace), also known as italic (Garnier Opera), is a historic 1,979-seatBeauvert 1996, p. 102.

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Palermo

Palermo (Palermu, locally also Paliemmu or Palèimmu) is a city in southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province.

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Palermo Conservatory

The Conservatorio di Musica Alessandro Scarlatti (English: Conservatory of Music Alessandro Scarlatti), better known in English as the Palermo Conservatory, is a music conservatory in Palermo, Italy.

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Pietro Mascagni

Pietro Mascagni (7 December 1863 – 2 August 1945) was an Italian composer primarily known for his operas.

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Renée Fleming

Renée Lynn Fleming (born February 14, 1959) is an American soprano, known for performances in opera, concerts, recordings, theater, film, and at major public occasions. Ginger Costa-Jackson and Renée Fleming are 21st-century American women opera singers.

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Riccardo Zandonai

Riccardo Zandonai (28 May 1883 – 5 June 1944) was an Italian composer and conductor.

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Rigoletto

Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi.

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Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah.

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San Diego Opera

The San Diego Opera Association (SDO) is a professional opera company located in the city of San Diego, California.

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San Francisco Opera

The San Francisco Opera (SFO) is an American opera company founded in 1923 by Gaetano Merola (1881–1953) based in San Francisco, California.

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San Francisco Symphony

The San Francisco Symphony, founded in 1911, is an American orchestra based in San Francisco, California.

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Sarasota, Florida

Sarasota is a city in and the county seat of Sarasota County, Florida, United States.

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Seattle Opera

Seattle Opera is an opera company based in Seattle, Washington.

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Sicily

Sicily (Sicilia,; Sicilia,, officially Regione Siciliana) is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy.

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Thaïs (opera)

Thaïs is an opera, a comédie lyrique in three acts and seven tableaux, by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Louis Gallet, based on the novel Thaïs by Anatole France.

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The Consul

The Consul is an opera in three acts with music and libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, his first full-length opera.

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The Marriage of Figaro

The Marriage of Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), K. 492, is a commedia per musica (opera buffa) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte.

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The Tales of Hoffmann

The Tales of Hoffmann (French) is an by Jacques Offenbach.

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The Three Tenors

The Three Tenors were an operatic singing trio, active between 1990 and 2003, and termed a supergroup (a title normally reserved for rock and pop groups) consisting of Italian Luciano Pavarotti and Spaniards Plácido Domingo and José Carreras.

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Thomas Hampson

Thomas Walter Hampson (born June 28, 1955) is an American lyric baritone, a classical singer who has appeared world-wide in major opera houses and concert halls and made over 170 musical recordings.

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Tri-Cities Opera Company

The Tri-Cities Opera Company (commonly known as "TCO"), founded in 1949 by Peyton Hibbitt and Carmen Savoca in Binghamton, NY, annually stages four full-scale operas per season, which typically runs from October until May each year.

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Un giorno di regno

Un giorno di regno, ossia Il finto Stanislao (A One-Day Reign, or The Pretend Stanislaus, but often translated into English as King for a Day) is an operatic melodramma giocoso in two acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto written in 1818 by Felice Romani.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Costa-Jackson

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