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| caption = Sasson at the Sternstunden Gala of [[Bayerischer Rundfunk|BR]], 2014
| birth_name = Deborah Ann O'Brien
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1958|08|22}}
| birth_place = Boston, U.S.
| occupation = {{ubl| Operatic [[soprano]] | Musical actress | Composer }}
| education = {{ubl| [[Oberlin College]] | [[New England Conservatory of Music]] }}
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'''Deborah Sasson''' née '''Deborah Ann O'Brien''' (born 22 August 1958), is an American operatic [[soprano]], musical theatre actress and composer, mostly active in Germany. She worked also in pop music.
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'''Deborah Sasson''' née '''Deborah Ann O'Brien''' (born 22 August 1958), is an American operatic [[soprano]] and musical theatre actress mostly active in Germany. She worked also in pop music and wrote musicals.


== Life and career ==
== Life and career ==
Deborah Ann O'Brien was born in Boston<ref name="Bayreuth" /><ref name="Phantom" /> on 22 August 1958.<ref name="Novotny" /> As a teenager she sang in a high school band. After high school she studied classical singing at [[Oberlin College]] in [[Oberlin, Ohio]] with Ellen Repp and Helen Hodam; she studied further at the [[New England Conservatory of Music]] with Gladys Miller, graduating as a Master of Music.<ref name="Bayreuth" /><ref name="Phantom" /> She began as a concert singer. After being a finalist of the [[Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions]],<ref name="Bayreuth" /> she appeared at the opera house. She made her debut on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] in ''[[Show Boat]]''. [[Leonard Bernstein]] saw her performance and cast her in the role of Maria in a production of his ''[[West Side Story]]'' at the [[Hamburg State Opera]]<ref name="Phantom" /> in 1979 which started her career in Germany.<ref name="Bayreuth" />
Deborah Ann O'Brien was born in Boston<ref name="GSL" /> on 22 August 1958.<ref name="Novotny" /> As a teenager she sang in a high school band. After high school she studied classical singing at [[Oberlin College]] in [[Oberlin, Ohio]] with Ellen Repp and Helen Hodam; she studied further at the [[New England Conservatory of Music]] with Gladys Miller, graduating as a Master of Music.<ref name="GSL" /> She began as a concert singer. She was a finalist of the [[Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions]].<ref name="GSL" /> She made her debut on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] in ''[[Show Boat]]''.<ref name="Fritsch" /> [[Leonard Bernstein]] saw her performance and cast her in the role of Maria in a production of his ''[[West Side Story]]'' at the [[Hamburg State Opera]]<ref name="Rheinpfalz" /> in 1979 which started her career in Germany.<ref name="GSL" />


She was a member of the ensemble of the [[Theater Aachen]] from 1979 to 1982, and appeared as a guest at the am [[Deutsche Oper Berlin]], [[La Fenice]] in Venice and the San Francisco Opera. Her roles included Mozart's Despina in ''[[Così fan tutte]]'' and Zerlina in ''[[Don Giovanni]]'', Donizetti's Norina in ''[[Don Pasquale]]'' and Adina ''[[L'elisir d'amore]]'', Rossini's Rosina in ''[[The Barber of Seville|Der Barbier von Sevilla]]'' and Verdi's Gilda in ''[[Rigoletto]]''.<ref name="Bayreuth" />
She was a member of the ensemble of the [[Theater Aachen]] from 1979 to 1982, and appeared as a guest at the am [[Deutsche Oper Berlin]], [[La Fenice]] in Venice and the San Francisco Opera. Her roles included Mozart's Despina in ''[[Così fan tutte]]'' and Zerlina in ''[[Don Giovanni]]'', Donizetti's Norina in ''[[Don Pasquale]]'' and Adina ''[[L'elisir d'amore]]'', Rossini's Rosina in ''[[The Barber of Seville]]'' and Verdi's Gilda in ''[[Rigoletto]]''.<ref name="GSL" />


Sasson appeared at the [[Bayreuth Festival]] as a Flower Maiden in ''[[Parsifal]]'' first in 1982, alongside Peter Hofmann in the title role who was to become her husband.<ref name="Bayreuth" /> She performed the role until 1989.<ref name="Bayreuth" /> She recorded with Hofmann a duet version of ''[[Scarborough Fair (ballad)|Scarborough Fair]]'' as part of her album ''Rock Classics''.
Sasson appeared at the [[Bayreuth Festival]] as a Flower Maiden in ''[[Parsifal]]'' first in 1982, alongside Peter Hofmann in the title role who was to become her husband.<ref name="GSL" /> She performed the role until 1989.<ref name="GSL" /> She recorded with Hofmann a duet version of ''[[Scarborough Fair (ballad)|Scarborough Fair]]'' as part of her album ''Rock Classics''.<ref name="v271">{{citation | last1=Hofmann | first1=Peter | last2=Sasson | first2=Deborah | last3=Cress | first3=Curt | last4=Petereit | first4=Dieter | last5=Tuxen | first5=Nils | last6=Heck | first6=Roland | author7=Deutsche Oper Berlin Orchester | title=Rock classics [1] | year=1984 | oclc=1183498012 | language=de | page=}}</ref>


She later turned to musical theatre again and o entertaining music.<ref name="Bayreuth" /> from 1988 Sasson worked in [[pop music]]. She has released album such as ''(Carmen) Danger in Her Eyes'' and ''Passion and Pain'' that achieved chart placements.<ref name="hitparade" />
Sasson later turned to musical theatre again and popular music,<ref name="GSL" /> and from 1988 has worked in [[pop music]]. She has released album such as ''(Carmen) Danger in Her Eyes'' and ''Passion and Pain'' that achieved chart placements.<ref name="hitparade" /> She wrote in 2010, together with Jochen Sautter, a musical ''Das Phantom der Oper''<ref name="Hordych" /> and appeared in the role of Christine, touring in Germany for several years.<ref name="Sächsische" /> Again with Sautter, she wrote a musical ''Der kleine Prinz'', based on ''[[Le Petit Prince]]'', in 2015, which was performed at theatres in Germany and Switzerland.<ref name="Hug" /><ref name="Hordych" />


=== Personal life ===
=== Personal life ===
She was first married to the conductor Michel Sasson.<ref>[http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/04/09/michel-sasson-bso-violinist-cofounded-newton-symphony-was-music-director-boston-ballet/5QIh5hGLM7dmc9kJN0ZqEI/story.html Report in Boston Globe on the death of Michel Sasson on 26 March 2013, retrieved 13 April 2019]</ref> She was married to the tenor [[Peter Hofmann]] from 1983 to 1990.<ref name="Bayreuth" />
She was first married to the conductor Michel Sasson.<ref name="Eichtler" /> She was married to the tenor [[Peter Hofmann]] from 1983 to 1990.<ref name="GSL" />


Sasson gives solo concerts with her own ensemble;<ref name="e529">{{cite web | title=Festliche Weihnacht mit Weltstar Deborah Sasson | website=Startseite leipzig.de | url=https://www.leipzig.de/freizeit-kultur-und-tourismus/veranstaltungen-und-termine/eventsingle/event/festliche-weihnacht-mit-weltstar-deborah-sasson | language=de | access-date=19 October 2024}}</ref> she performed in a duo programme with the opera singer [[Gunther Emmerlich]].<ref name="d003">{{citation | last1=Mendelssohn Bartholdy | first1=Felix | last2=Schumann | first2=Robert | last3=Brahms | first3=Johannes | last4=Dvořák | first4=Antonín | last5=Cornelius | first5=Peter | last6=Bruch | first6=Max | last7=Rossini | first7=Gioachino | last8=Sasson | first8=Deborah | last9=Emmerlich | first9=Gunther | last10=Bender | first10=Klaus | title=Ein Fall für Zwei Deborah Sasson & Gunther Emmerlich; mit den schönsten Duetten und heiteren Texten der Liebe auf der Spur | publisher=Sächsische Künstleragentur | publication-place=Dresden | year=2002 | oclc=314005647 | language=de | page=}}</ref><ref name="e190">{{cite web | last=Gröger | first=René | title=Nachruf: Sänger Gunther Emmerlich gestorben | website=BR-KLASSIK | date=20 December 2023 | url=https://www.br-klassik.de/aktuell/news-kritik/saenger-gunther-emmerlich-gestorben-nachruf-wuerdigung-oper-100.html | language=de | access-date=19 October 2024 | archive-date=19 January 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240119174743/https://www.br-klassik.de/aktuell/news-kritik/saenger-gunther-emmerlich-gestorben-nachruf-wuerdigung-oper-100.html | url-status=live }}</ref>
Sasson gives solo concerts with her own ensemble; she performed in a duo programme with the opera singer [[Gunther Emmerlich]].<ref name="Phantom" />


== Recordings ==
== Recordings ==
Sasson appeared in a recording of Mahler's [[Symphony No. 8 (Mahler)|Eighths Symphony]] from the Tanglewood Festival.<ref name="Novotny" />
Sasson appeared in a recording of Mahler's [[Symphony No. 8 (Mahler)|Eighth Symphony]] from the [[Tanglewood Music Festival]],<ref name="Novotny" /> conducted by [[Seiji Ozawa]] in 1980.<ref name="Boston" />
* [https://www.saechsische.de/das-phantom-der-oper-57.html ''Das Phantom der Oper'']
* [https://www.shazam.com/fr/artist/40003341/deborah-sasson List of hits]


== References ==
== References ==
{{reflist
{{reflist
| refs =
| refs =

<ref name="Eichtler">{{cite news
| last = Eichtler
| first = Jeremy
| url = http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/04/09/michel-sasson-bso-violinist-cofounded-newton-symphony-was-music-director-boston-ballet/5QIh5hGLM7dmc9kJN0ZqEI/story.html
| title = Michel Sasson, 77; BSO violinist cofounded Newton Symphony
| newspaper = Boston Globe
| date = 26 March 2013
| access-date = 13 April 2019
| archive-date = 13 April 2019
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190413190131/https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/04/09/michel-sasson-bso-violinist-cofounded-newton-symphony-was-music-director-boston-ballet/5QIh5hGLM7dmc9kJN0ZqEI/story.html
| url-status = live
}}</ref>

<ref name="Fritsch">{{cite web
| last=Fritsch
| first=Werner
| title=Das etwas andere Phantom: Deborah Sasson über ihre Version des Musicals
| website=HNA.de
| date=7 January 2014
| url=https://www.hna.de/kultur/etwas-andere-phantom-3301484.html
| language=de
| access-date=17 October 2024
| archive-date=27 April 2023
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230427134444/http://www.hna.de/kultur/etwas-andere-phantom-3301484.html
| url-status=live
}}</ref>

<ref name="Hordych">{{cite web
| first=Barbara
| last=Hordych
| title=Sein eigener Herr
| website=[[Süddeutsche.de]]
| date=4 January 2018
| url=https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/musical-sein-eigener-herr-1.3814551
| language=de
| access-date=19 October 2024
| archive-date=14 January 2018
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180114055853/http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/musical-sein-eigener-herr-1.3814551
| url-status=live
}}</ref>

<ref name="Hug">{{cite web
| last = Hug
| first = Michael
| url = https://onlinemerker.com/basel-musical-theater-der-kleine-prinz-von-deborah-sasson-und-jochen-sautter/
| title = Basel: Musical-Theater Basel – Deborah Sasson/Jochen Sautter "Der kleine Prinz"
| work = Online Merker
| date = 15 January 2016
| language = de
| access-date = 17 October 2024
| archive-date = 17 May 2022
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220517103907/https://onlinemerker.com/basel-musical-theater-der-kleine-prinz-von-deborah-sasson-und-jochen-sautter/
| url-status = live
}}</ref>


<ref name="Novotny">{{cite web
<ref name="Novotny">{{cite web
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| language = de
| language = de
| access-date = 17 October 2024
| access-date = 17 October 2024
| archive-date = 2 October 2023
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20231002104557/https://onlinemerker.com/geburtstage-im-august-2023/
| url-status = live
}}</ref>
}}</ref>


<ref name="Bayreuth">{{cite web
<ref name="Boston">{{cite web
| url = https://www.bayreuther-festspiele.de/fsdb/mitwirkende/deborah-sasson/
| url = https://www.bso.org/works/mahler-symphony-no-8
| title = Deboral Sasson
| title = Symphony No. 8
| work = [[Boston Symphony Orchestra]]
| publisher = Bayreuth Festival (quoting [[Großes Sängerlexikon|GSL]]
| date = 1999
| date = 1999
| language = de
| access-date = 17 October 2024
| access-date = 17 October 2024
}}</ref>
}}</ref>

<ref name="GSL">{{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=[[Großes Sängerlexikon]], Third Edition|entry=Sasson, Deborah|first1= K. J.|last1= Kutsch|author-link1=Karl-Josef Kutsch | first2= Leo|last2= Riemens|author-link2=Leo Riemens|year=1999|volume=IV, Moffo–Seidel|publisher=[[K. G. Saur Verlag]]}}</ref>


<ref name="hitparade">{{cite web
<ref name="hitparade">{{cite web
| url = http://hitparade.ch/artist/Deborah_Sasson#charts
| url = http://hitparade.ch/artist/Deborah_Sasson#charts
| title = Deboral Sasson
| title = Deborah Sasson
| website = hitparade.ch
| website = hitparade.ch
| date =
| date =
| language = de
| language = de
| access-date = 17 October 2024
| access-date = 17 October 2024
| archive-date = 26 April 2023
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230426054011/https://hitparade.ch/artist/Deborah_Sasson#charts
| url-status = live
}}</ref>

<ref name="Rheinpfalz">{{cite web
| title=Deborah Sasson und Kant-Chöre stimmen auf Weihnachten ein
| website=Die Rheinpfalz
| date=27 November 2023
| url=https://www.rheinpfalz.de/lokal/pirmasens_artikel%2C-deborah-sasson-und-kant-ch%C3%B6re-stimmen-auf-weihnachten-ein-_arid%2C5582694.html
| language=de
| access-date=19 October 2024
| archive-date=2 March 2024
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240302095037/https://www.rheinpfalz.de/lokal/pirmasens_artikel,-deborah-sasson-und-kant-ch%C3%B6re-stimmen-auf-weihnachten-ein-_arid,5582694.html
| url-status=live
}}</ref>
}}</ref>


<ref name="Phantom">{{cite web
<ref name="Sächsische">{{cite news
| url = https://www.phantomderoper.com/deborah-sasson/
| url = https://www.saechsische.de/das-phantom-der-oper-57.html
| title = Deboah Sasson
| title = Das Phantom der Oper
| newspaper = Sächsische Zeitung
| website = phantomderoper.com
| date = 2024
| date = 22 October 2018
| language = de
| language = de
| access-date = 17 October 2024
| access-date = 17 October 2024
| archive-date = 14 April 2019
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190414073530/https://www.saechsische.de/das-phantom-der-oper-57.html
| url-status = live
}}</ref>
}}</ref>


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* {{discogs artist}}
* {{discogs artist}}
* {{IMDb name|1842266}}
* {{IMDb name|1842266}}
* [https://www.derkleineprinz.eu/kreativ-team/ Der kleine Prinz, Kreativ Team] (in German) derkleineprinz.eu
* [https://www.derkleineprinz.eu Der kleine Prinz] {{in lang|de}}
* [https://www.phantomderoper.com/ Phantom der Oper] {{in lang|de}}
* [https://www.bayreuther-festspiele.de/fsdb/mitwirkende/deborah-sasson/ Bio of Deborah Sasson] {{in lang|de}} at the [[Bayreuth Festival]] website; re-publication of the entry in ''[[Großes Sängerlexikon]], Third Edition'' (1999)


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Deborah Sasson
Sasson at the Sternstunden Gala of BR, 2014
Born
Deborah Ann O'Brien

(1958-08-22) August 22, 1958 (age 66)
Boston, U.S.
Education
Occupations
  • Operatic soprano
  • Musical actress
  • Composer

Deborah Sasson née Deborah Ann O'Brien (born 22 August 1958), is an American operatic soprano, musical theatre actress and composer, mostly active in Germany. She worked also in pop music.

Life and career

[edit]

Deborah Ann O'Brien was born in Boston[1] on 22 August 1958.[2] As a teenager she sang in a high school band. After high school she studied classical singing at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio with Ellen Repp and Helen Hodam; she studied further at the New England Conservatory of Music with Gladys Miller, graduating as a Master of Music.[1] She began as a concert singer. She was a finalist of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.[1] She made her debut on Broadway in Show Boat.[3] Leonard Bernstein saw her performance and cast her in the role of Maria in a production of his West Side Story at the Hamburg State Opera[4] in 1979 which started her career in Germany.[1]

She was a member of the ensemble of the Theater Aachen from 1979 to 1982, and appeared as a guest at the am Deutsche Oper Berlin, La Fenice in Venice and the San Francisco Opera. Her roles included Mozart's Despina in Così fan tutte and Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Donizetti's Norina in Don Pasquale and Adina L'elisir d'amore, Rossini's Rosina in The Barber of Seville and Verdi's Gilda in Rigoletto.[1]

Sasson appeared at the Bayreuth Festival as a Flower Maiden in Parsifal first in 1982, alongside Peter Hofmann in the title role who was to become her husband.[1] She performed the role until 1989.[1] She recorded with Hofmann a duet version of Scarborough Fair as part of her album Rock Classics.[5]

Sasson later turned to musical theatre again and popular music,[1] and from 1988 has worked in pop music. She has released album such as (Carmen) Danger in Her Eyes and Passion and Pain that achieved chart placements.[6] She wrote in 2010, together with Jochen Sautter, a musical Das Phantom der Oper[7] and appeared in the role of Christine, touring in Germany for several years.[8] Again with Sautter, she wrote a musical Der kleine Prinz, based on Le Petit Prince, in 2015, which was performed at theatres in Germany and Switzerland.[9][7]

Personal life

[edit]

She was first married to the conductor Michel Sasson.[10] She was married to the tenor Peter Hofmann from 1983 to 1990.[1]

Sasson gives solo concerts with her own ensemble;[11] she performed in a duo programme with the opera singer Gunther Emmerlich.[12][13]

Recordings

[edit]

Sasson appeared in a recording of Mahler's Eighth Symphony from the Tanglewood Music Festival,[2] conducted by Seiji Ozawa in 1980.[14]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Kutsch, K. J.; Riemens, Leo (1999). "Sasson, Deborah". Großes Sängerlexikon, Third Edition. Vol. IV, Moffo–Seidel. K. G. Saur Verlag.
  2. ^ a b Nowotny, Walter (1 August 2023). "Geburtstag im August 2023 / 11.8. Deboral Sasson wird 65". Online Merker (in German). Archived from the original on 2 October 2023. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
  3. ^ Fritsch, Werner (7 January 2014). "Das etwas andere Phantom: Deborah Sasson über ihre Version des Musicals". HNA.de (in German). Archived from the original on 27 April 2023. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
  4. ^ "Deborah Sasson und Kant-Chöre stimmen auf Weihnachten ein". Die Rheinpfalz (in German). 27 November 2023. Archived from the original on 2 March 2024. Retrieved 19 October 2024.
  5. ^ Hofmann, Peter; Sasson, Deborah; Cress, Curt; Petereit, Dieter; Tuxen, Nils; Heck, Roland; Deutsche Oper Berlin Orchester (1984), Rock classics [1] (in German), OCLC 1183498012
  6. ^ "Deborah Sasson". hitparade.ch (in German). Archived from the original on 26 April 2023. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
  7. ^ a b Hordych, Barbara (4 January 2018). "Sein eigener Herr". Süddeutsche.de (in German). Archived from the original on 14 January 2018. Retrieved 19 October 2024.
  8. ^ "Das Phantom der Oper". Sächsische Zeitung (in German). 22 October 2018. Archived from the original on 14 April 2019. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
  9. ^ Hug, Michael (15 January 2016). "Basel: Musical-Theater Basel – Deborah Sasson/Jochen Sautter "Der kleine Prinz"". Online Merker (in German). Archived from the original on 17 May 2022. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
  10. ^ Eichtler, Jeremy (26 March 2013). "Michel Sasson, 77; BSO violinist cofounded Newton Symphony". Boston Globe. Archived from the original on 13 April 2019. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
  11. ^ "Festliche Weihnacht mit Weltstar Deborah Sasson". Startseite leipzig.de (in German). Retrieved 19 October 2024.
  12. ^ Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix; Schumann, Robert; Brahms, Johannes; Dvořák, Antonín; Cornelius, Peter; Bruch, Max; Rossini, Gioachino; Sasson, Deborah; Emmerlich, Gunther; Bender, Klaus (2002), Ein Fall für Zwei Deborah Sasson & Gunther Emmerlich; mit den schönsten Duetten und heiteren Texten der Liebe auf der Spur (in German), Dresden: Sächsische Künstleragentur, OCLC 314005647
  13. ^ Gröger, René (20 December 2023). "Nachruf: Sänger Gunther Emmerlich gestorben". BR-KLASSIK (in German). Archived from the original on 19 January 2024. Retrieved 19 October 2024.
  14. ^ "Symphony No. 8". Boston Symphony Orchestra. 1999. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
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