'She was fearless in her approach to finding the emotional truth of a piece of music — whatever it was,' her daughter, the actress and director Rebecca Hall, tells The Times.
, “A more eccentrically sung and acted Carmen has probably never been heard and seen in this opera house than the one delivered by Miss Ewing on this opening night.”
Maria Louise Ewing was born in Detroit on March 27, 1950. Her mother was Dutch and her father was African American. Her family’s experience and lineage serves aswhich centers on the stories of two light-skinned Black women, one of whom passes for white. Hall writes that Ewing felt a particular kinship with Garland and that one of her favorite songs was Garland singing “The Man That Got Away.” Other favorites included Claude Debussy’s “Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune,” Bill Evans playing “Here’s That Rainy Day” and Grover Washington Jr.’s “Passion Flower.”
Ewing studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music before making her 1976 debut at the Met in Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro.” She went on to sing in nearly 100 performances at the Met, and appeared in opera houses and festivals around the world, including La Scala in Milan, Italy, and England’s Glyndebourne Festival, where she met her future husband Peter Hall in 1979.
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