Private Practice - Audra McDonald
Earning an unprecedented three Tony Awards before the age
of 30 and a fourth last season ("Carousel," "Master
Class," "Ragtime" and "A Raisin in the
Sun"), singer and actress Audra McDonald is frequently
compared to legendary performers like Garland and Streisand.
Blending a luscious, classically trained soprano with an incomparable
gift for dramatic storytelling, McDonald is also a major concert
and recording artist who appears regularly on many of the
great stages of the world.
McDonald has sung regularly with all the major American orchestras,
including the Boston Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic,
the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and
the San Francisco Symphony, under many of the world's greatest
conductors, such as John Adams, Sir Simon Rattle, Esa Pekka
Salonen and Michael Tilson Thomas. Overseas she is a return
visitor to London's BBC Proms, the London Symphony Orchestra
and the Berlin Philharmonic, and recently made her Paris debut
at the TMP/Chatelet.
Her film and television work includes her Emmy nominated
performance in HBO's Mike Nichols production of "Wit"
(opposite Emma Thompson) and strong recognition for her portrayal
of Grace Farrell in the made for television Disney production
of "Annie." An exclusive recording artist for Nonesuch
Records, McDonald's three solo discs ("Way Back to Paradise,"
"How Glory Goes" and "Happy Songs"), comprising
both popular standards and contemporary music theater songs,
have won a wide audience.
- from ABC.com
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