Audrey Schuh


Audrey Clare Schuh was an American operatic soprano.

Biography

Audrey Clare Schuh was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on June 11, 1931. She studied at Loyola University of the South.
Her first leading role with the New Orleans Opera Association was the page-boy Oscar in Un ballo in maschera, opposite Jussi Björling, in 1950. She starred there in Don Giovanni, Carmen, Amelia al ballo, Falstaff, Die Fledermaus, Hänsel und Gretel, La bohème, La traviata, La bohème, Markheim, Turandot, Elektra, Pagliacci, and Il tabarro.
Schuh also sang Nannetta in Falstaff for the San Francisco Opera. She sang with the Houston Grand Opera, the New England Opera Theatre, the Jackson Opera Guild and the San Antonio Opera Guild. In 1967, she appeared at the New York City Opera for a memorable season at its new theatre at Lincoln Center: La bohème, Madama Butterfly, and Suor Angelica. She made a return to the New Orleans Opera in 1977, again as Micaëla, which was her Farewell.
One of her sons, the tenor Kirk Redmann, appeared with the Metropolitan Opera from 1983 to 1990. From 1994 to 1999, VAI issued several of Schuh's New Orleans performances on Compact Discs.
Schuh died on October 28, 2023, at the age of 92.

Discography

  • Verdi: Un ballo in maschera VAI
  • Verdi: Falstaff VAI
  • Puccini: La bohème VAI
  • Floyd: Markheim VAI
  • Puccini: Turandot: excerpts VAI
  • Strauss: Elektra VAI