Eileen Farrell 艾伊连·法瑞尔

艾伊连·法瑞尔（Eileen Farrell，1920-2002），美国女高音歌唱家，1920年2月13日出生于于美国康涅狄格州的Willimantic，2002年3月23日卒于New Jersey州的帕克里奇，享年82岁。 法瑞尔的父母都是杂技歌手，她的幼年在罗德岛的文索基特度过，后来到纽约学习声乐，先后师从Merle Alcock和Eleanor McLellan，1942年为CBS电台做了她的演唱会首演，1947-1948年作为演唱会歌手巡演于美国，1949年进而访问了南美洲，1950年10月在纽约举办的演唱会引起轰动，随后直到1960年一直受聘于托斯卡尼尼指挥的NBC交响乐团担任贝多芬第九交响曲的女高音独唱，1955年在Eleanor Parker主演的电影《Interrupted Melody》中，为其中的澳大利亚女高音Marjorie Lawrence配唱获得奥斯卡金像奖最佳女主角提名，1956年作为《乡村骑士》中的Santuzza与圣卡罗歌剧院合作在佛罗里达州的Tampa做了歌剧首演，同年首次登台旧金山歌剧院出演了《游吟诗人》中的Leonora，1957年加入芝加哥抒情歌剧院出演了《La Gioconda》的剧名角色，1958年加入旧金山歌剧院，在赛季开幕式上出演了Cherubini《Medea》的剧名角色，1960年12月首次登台纽约大都会歌剧院演唱了Gluck的《Alcestis》，并在此演唱到1964年，1963－1964赛季在44场表演中出演了6个不同角色，1966年3月返回作为Maddalena一角在此做了最后两场表演，1971年至1980年任教于Bloomington的印第安纳大学的音乐学院，成为一名杰出的音乐系教授，1983年至1985年在Orono的缅因州大学任音乐系教授，1999年出版了回忆录《不能帮你唱歌》（Can't Help Singing）。

Eileen Farrell(February 13, 1920 – March 23, 2002) was an Americansopranowho had a nearly 60-year-long career performing bothclassicalandpopular musicin concerts, theatres, on radio and television, and on disc. While she was active as anoperasinger, her concert engagements far outnumbered her theatrical appearances. Her career was mainly based in the United States, although she did perform internationally.The Daily Telegraphstated that she "was one of the finest American sopranos of the 20th century; she had a voice of magnificent proportions which she used with both acumen and artistry in a wide variety of roles." And described as having a voice "like some unparalleled phenomenon of nature. She is to singers what Niagara is to waterfalls." Farrell began her career in 1940 as a member of the CBS Chorus onCBS Radio. In 1941 CBS Radio offered Farrell her own program,Eileen Farrell Sings, on which she performed both classical and popular music for 5 years.In 1947 she launched her career as a concert soprano and nine years later began performing on theoperastage.The pinnacle of her opera career was five seasons performing at theMetropolitan Operafrom 1960–1966. She continued to perform and record both classical and popular music throughout her career, and is credited for releasing the first successfulcrossover album: "I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues" (1960).After announcing her retirement from performance in 1986, she still continued to perform and record music periodically up into the late 1990s.She was also active as avoice teacher, both privately and for nine years atIndiana University.