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'''Mary Jane Phillips-Matz''' (30 January 1926 – 19 January 2013) was an American biographer. She is mainly known for her biography of [[Giuseppe Verdi|Verdi]], a result of 30 years' research and published in 1993 by [[Oxford University Press]]. |
'''Mary Jane Phillips-Matz''' (30 January 1926 – 19 January 2013) was an American biographer. She is mainly known for her biography of [[Giuseppe Verdi|Verdi]], a result of 30 years' research and published in 1993 by [[Oxford University Press]]. |
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Mary Jane Phillips-Matz (30 January 1926 – 19 January 2013) was an American biographer. She is mainly known for her biography of Verdi, a result of 30 years' research and published in 1993 by Oxford University Press.
Biography
Phillips was born in Lebanon, Ohio; as a child, she visited productions of the Cincinnati Summer Opera. After earning a bachelor in medieval literature in the late 1940s from Smith College and a master's degree from Columbia University, she began a 50-year period of contributing to Opera News; she also wrote regularly program notes for the Royal Opera House, London.
Edward Rothstein of The New York Times Book Review called her Verdi biography an "important biography" which "provides us with a more complicated portrait of the amn than we have had so far."[1] The biography won the Ascap Deems Taylor Award in 1994. Phillips-Matz was a founder of the American Institute for Verdi Studies at New York University.[2]
Phillips-Matz died at her home in Manhattan, near Verdi Square. She was 86.
Works
- The Many Lives of Otto Kahn, 1984, Pendragon Press
- Verdi: A Biography, 1993, Oxford University Press
- Rosa Ponselle: American Diva, 1997
- Leonard Warren: American Baritone, 2000, Amadeus Press
- Puccini: A Biography 2002, Northeastern University Press
References
- ^ "Mary Jane Phillips-Matz, Verdi and Puccini Biographer, Dies at 86" by Margalit Fox, The New York Times, 26 January 2013
- ^ "Our History and Mission", American Institute for Verdi Studies