Linda Trotter

Mezzo Soprano Soloist

April 28, 2001

LINDA TROTTER, Mezzo Soprano, joined the faculty at Western Michigan University in the fall of 1990. She teaches voice and vocal pedagogy. Formerly she taught at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, at the Landeskonservatoriurn fur Vorarlberg in Feldkirch, Austria, and the Konservatorium der Stadt in Innsburck, Austria.  Ms. Trotter's extensive career includes over 1000 fir performances of 68 operatic roles from 1961 to 1982 in the opera houses of Austria, West Germany, Switzerland, Italy and the United States. In 1981 she was featured in the premiere performance of Andrew Porter's English translation of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde presented by the Seattle Opera Association. She also performed in Seattle's Pacific Northwest Wagner Festival in 1981 and 1982. Her many operatic roles include Frela in Wagner's Das Rheingold; Sieglinde in Wagner's Die Walkure; Marcellina, Cherubino, and the Countess in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro; Dorabella in Mozart's Cosifan Tutte; Mimi in Puccini's La Boheme; Leonora in Verdi's La Forza del Destino; Elsa in Wagner's Lohengrin; Kundry in Wagner's Parsifal; Desdemona in Verdi's Otello; and The Composer and Ariadne in Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos.

Professor Trotter earned the Bachelor or Music degree in opera at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and the Master of Music degree in vocal performance at the University of South Carolina. She has been the recipient of three grants from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music and was a Semifinalist in the Women's Vocal Division of the International Music Competition in Geneva, Switzerland.