Coloratura soprano Ruth Ann Swenson has breast cancer. Ms. Swenson is a favorite in San Francisco, where she had her 1983 debut as Despina in Così Fan Tutte as a second year Adler Fellow. She was last seen here as the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro in June of this year. In the picture featured to the left, she is singing the role of Cleopatra with countertenor David Daniels (not pictured) in the Met’s production of Giulio Cesare, which she is to sing again in April 2007.
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4 responses to “Ruth Ann Swenson News”
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No! Nononononono! Too many wonderful singers are dying of breast cancer. Maybe it’s me. Once I find a singer I’ll pay the big bucks for, they go and contract cancer of the boob. This is terrible.
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It’s very disturbing, but hopefully Ruth Ann will recover, she’s young.
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The first time I heard RAS was when she played Ophelia at SF in the mid nineties. I was so moved I almost cried.
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That’s precisely when I heard RAS too, I’m pretty sure it changed how I turned out.
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