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#San francisco war memorial opera house seating chart tvTraditionalists criticized her when she appeared as a judge on the British TV show, “Popstar to Operastar,” a singing competition in which pop stars try to sing classical opera. This year she toured a group of young resettled refugees from Nepal and Sierra Leone backstage at the Met, and in England, she sang for disadvantaged children and helped them create their own interpretation of “Madame Butterfly, as part of her volunteer work with the Prince’s Foundation for Children and the Arts. But she also finds time to sing at refugee camps in Tanzania, as an ambassador for the International Rescue Committee. Her career has rocketed her to Zurich, Paris, the Netherlands and Japan. She even lives like a real princess: Her home is Glyndebourne in Sussex, a 600-year-old English manor with its own 1,200-seat opera house, where she lives with her husband, Gus Christie, chairman of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera.ĭe Niese, who debuted with the Los Angeles Opera when she was 15, adores being a diva - but only onstage.īorn in Australia, and schooled in Los Angeles, at 18 she became the youngest singer ever accepted on to the Lindemann Young Artist Program at the Metropolitan Opera, where she made her debut as Barbarina in “Le nozze di Figaro.” She’s a powerhouse singer who has acting ability, a stage performer who has a recording contract, and a model of Sri Lankan, Dutch and Scottish heritage who has enough stage presence to win an Emmy at 16. Not much of a stretch for the captivating de Niese, 35, dubbed “opera’s coolest soprano” by the New York Times.
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