Kathleen Battle Biography, Age, Height, Husband, Net Worth, Family

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Kathleen Battle is an American operatic soprano. She has performed in opera houses and concert halls around the world, and has won two Grammy Awards. She has also been a professor of music at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio. Battle was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, and began her musical studies at the age of five. She attended the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where she earned a Bachelor of Music degree in 1971. She then went on to study at the Juilliard School in New York City, where she earned a Master of Music degree in 1973. Battle made her professional debut in 1975, singing the role of the Queen of the Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute at the New York City Opera. She went on to perform in many of the world's leading opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, the Royal Opera House, and the Paris Opera. She has also performed in concert with many of the world's leading orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the Berlin Philharmonic. Battle has won two Grammy Awards, for Best Classical Vocal Performance in 1987 and Best Opera Recording in 1991. She has also been awarded the National Medal of Arts, the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and the Kennedy Center Honors. In addition to her performing career, Battle has been a professor of music at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio since 2002. She has also served as a visiting professor at the University of Michigan and the University of Cincinnati.

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Kathleen Battle Height, Weight & Measurements

At 74 years old, Kathleen Battle height is 5' 3" (1.6 m) .

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She was a five-time Grammy award winner, and won an Emmy Award in 1991. She received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a New Opera Production for her debut performance at the Covent Garden Royal Opera House, London. Battle is the recipient of several honorary doctorates from universities.

In 1972 she was hired by then conductor or the Cincinnati Symphony, Thomas Schippers, to perform at the 1972 Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy. Being blessed with the silky, silvery timbre of her lyric coloratura soprano, and the talent that has little limitations, she made performances and recordings in a variety of styles and genres, including classical sacred music, spirituals and traditional jazz. Battle performed leading parts at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, in the operas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Strauss, and Gaetano Donizetti. She also worked with conductor James Levine, as well as with jazz musicians such as Cyrus Chestnut, James Carter, Grover Washington Jr. , and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. Her performances with tenors Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and conductors Herbert von Karajan, Claudio Abbado, Seiji Ozawa, André Previn, Georg Solti, Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Muti are documented on video and sound recordings. Battle is arguably the only lyric soprano with the ability to bridge the gap between the European bel canto opera and the African-American tradition of vocal improvisation. Her recordings of classical sacred arias by Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joaquino Rossini, and 'Gabriel Faure', as well as her recordings of spirituals, lullabies and folksongs in a jazz setting, are among the finest examples of her cross-cultural works.

She graduated from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in Ohio (1971) and taught music to Cincinnati's inner-city youth, while continuing her vocal studies privately.

Kathleen Battle was born on August 13, 1948 in Portsmouth, Ohio, USA. She was the youngest of seven children in the African-American family, with a good tradition of singing spirituals.

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