Contralto Marion Dry has appeared with the Cleveland Orchestra, Boston Pops Orchestra, National Symphony of Panama, National Symphony of Ukraine, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and at Tanglewood. She sang with the opera companies of Houston, Seattle, Boston Lyric Opera, at the Kennedy Center, Blossom Music Festival, Netherlands Opera, and at the Edinburgh Festival. She has recorded for Nonesuch, Koch, CRI, and Virgin Classics.
In the Summer of 1982, the Wagner International Institution presented Boston Lyric Opera in Wagner’s RING Cycle in a concert setting at North Eastern Unversity. My friend Paul Reid and I trekked up to Boston on July 18th and August 1st to hear two of the four operas. Marion Dry sang Schwertleite in WALKURE and the 1st Norn GOTTERDAMMERUNG, as part of a particularly fine trio alongside Diana Cole and Flicka Wilmore; John Balme was the conductor.
Listen to Marion Dry in the aria “You Have Learned to Bewitch” from Lukas Foss’s GRIFFELKIN here.
Ms. Dry later became Director of the Music Performance Department at Wellesley College, and co-founded ClassACT HR73.
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