{"id":128,"date":"2012-10-16T22:16:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T02:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muphiepsilonnycac.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=128"},"modified":"2012-10-16T22:16:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T02:16:19","slug":"mary-mcclain","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/muphiepsilonnycac.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=128","title":{"rendered":"Mary McClain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soprano, <strong>Mary McClain<\/strong>, known for her intensely emotional and overwhelmingly powerful performance of Isolde\u2019s <strong>\u201c<em>Liebestod,\u201d<\/em><\/strong> has appeared at Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Steinway Hall, and as featured artist in Beethoven\u2019s <strong><em>Ninth Symphony<\/em><\/strong> with Ars Musica and in Benjamin Britten\u2019s <strong><em>War Requiem<\/em><\/strong> where she made her debut with the Missoula Symphony.\u00a0 She has also appeared in gala performances with the Westchester Hudson Opera.\u00a0 Ms. McClain has performed the roles of <strong><em>Leonora\/Fidelio<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Turandot<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Aida<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Ariadne, Sieglinde<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Ortlinde<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 She also created the role of <strong><em>Judge Mouth<\/em><\/strong> in the premiere of the controversial opera <strong><em>Where\u2019s Dick?<\/em><\/strong> under the direction of Richard Forman at Houston Grand Opera.\u00a0 Ms. McClain is equally accomplished in performance of the art song.\u00a0 She has performed much of the classical literature including works by Wagner, Liszt, Strauss, Wolf, Mahler, Poulenc, Ravel and songs by the renowned American composers Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber.\u00a0 In addition to her operatic performances, Ms. McClain has appeared in dramatic theater roles as diverse as <em>Ethel Banks<\/em> in <strong><em>Barefoot in the Park<\/em><\/strong>, <em>Woman I<\/em> in <strong><em>The Language of Rapture<\/em><\/strong>, and <em>Ursula<\/em> in <strong><em>Much Ado About Nothing<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Ms. McClain studied at the Academie Musique Maurice Ravel at St. Jean-de-Luz, France and at the Manhattan School of Music where she earned both Bachelor and Master of Music Degrees.\u00a0 She has been awarded top prizes from the Wagner Society of New York, the Queens Opera Competition, the Liederkranz Foundation Vocal Competition specializing in the music of Wagner, the Olga Koussevitsky Competition, and the New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera Competition. \u00a0Ms. McClain was Mu Phi Epsilon-NYC Alumni Chapter\u2019s 2004 Distinguished Artist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soprano, Mary McClain, known for her intensely emotional and overwhelmingly powerful performance of Isolde\u2019s \u201cLiebestod,\u201d has appeared at Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Steinway Hall, and as featured artist in Beethoven\u2019s Ninth Symphony with Ars Musica and in Benjamin &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/muphiepsilonnycac.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=128\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":77,"menu_order":29,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/muphiepsilonnycac.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/128"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/muphiepsilonnycac.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/muphiepsilonnycac.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muphiepsilonnycac.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muphiepsilonnycac.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/muphiepsilonnycac.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"http:\/\/muphiepsilonnycac.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/128\/revisions\/129"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muphiepsilonnycac.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/muphiepsilonnycac.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}