Martile rowland biography
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Martile Rowland worked hard on her career for years, coming to New York and also try-ing Europe, but the big career just didn’t happen. She finally reached a point where she had just about given up.
Martile rowland biography
She put her career on the back burner, met and married her husband, moved back to Colorado Springs and sang quite a bit locally.
A tenor who used to coach with me in New York went to Colorado Springs to sing Manrico; Martile was singing the role of Leonora.
She told him she hoped to come to New York to coach. He recommended she work with me.
She came to New York for a coaching and sang one aria, “O luce di quest’ anima.” I picked up the phone to call a conductor I knew well and said, “You have to hear her right away.”
The next day we went to the conductor’s house, and sang the same aria.
The reaction was the same as mine had been, “Where have you been?” The Met was called right then and an audition set for the next week.
Her Met audition went very well and she was asked to come bac