Diane Curry

She was notably the mezzo-soprano soloist on the 1987 recording of Verdi's Requiem by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus and conductor Robert Shaw which won the 1988 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance.

She spent the next decade teaching on the voice faculties at Westminster and at the University of Delaware before joining the roster of artists at the New York City Opera where she performed regularly from 1972 to 1981.

Roles she performed with the NYCO included Annina in Der Rosenkavalier,[1] Berta in The Barber of Seville, Emma Jones in Street Scene, Enrichetta in I puritani,[2] Magdalena in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg,[3] Mama Lucia in Cavalleria rusticana,[4] Mary in The Flying Dutchman, Neris in Médée,[5] Olga in Eugene Onegin,[6] the Second Lady in The Magic Flute,[7] Suzuki in Madama Butterfly,[8] and the title role in Carmen[9] among others.

[10] She subsequently returned to Philadelphia regularly through 1995, portraying Geneviève in Pelléas et Mélisande, Herodias in Salome, La Frugala in Il Tabarro, Mistress Quickly in Verdi's Falstaff, the Princess in Suor Angelica, and Zita in Gianni Schicchi.

[13] From 1981 to 1986 she performed annually in Seattle Opera's first production of Wagner's The Ring Cycle under director Speight Jenkins, portraying Fricka in Das Rheingold and Die Walküre and Waltraute/Second Norn in Götterdämmerung.