Measha Brueggergosman
Measha Brueggergosman was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada on June 28th, 1977 and is the Opera Singer. At the age of 46, Measha Brueggergosman biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Measha Brueggergosman (born Measha Gosman; June 28, 1977) is a Canadian soprano who performs both as an opera singer and concert artist.
She has performed internationally and won numerous awards.
Her recordings of both classical and popular music have also received awards.
Personal life
She married Markus Brügger, born in Germany. They first met in high school, when he was an exchange student in New Brunswick. When they married, they combined their last names to Brüggergosman (also spelled Brueggergosman). They have two sons. They divorced in 2018.
Suffering a heart condition in June 2009, Brueggergosman took some time off to recover from open heart surgery. She returned to the stage in September 2009 for a performance at the Toronto International Film Festival.
On June 20, 2019 Brueggergosman underwent another successful open heart surgery (double bypass) in Calgary.
Career
In the premiere of James Rolfe and George Elliott Clarke's opera Beatrice Chancy at age 20, Brueggergosman took the lead. The opera was produced in Toronto in 1998 and in Nova Scotia the next year, narrating the tale of a slave girl in 19th-century Nova Scotia who murders her violent father, the man who is also her master. Critics and audiences alike loved the opera and Brueggergosman. In 2000, it was shot for the CBC.
Brueggergosman has appeared in Canada, including performances with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra, and Music Director Geoffrey Moull, National Arts Centre Orchestra under Pinchas Zukerman's direction, as well as at Roy Thomson Hall.
She has excelled internationally, as well as in the United States, Germany, and other nations. She appeared in Elektra, Dead Man Walking, and Turandot with the Cincinnati Opera. She has appeared with Sir Andrew Davis and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, as well as Helmuth Rilling at the International Beethoven Festival in Bonn.
Brueggergosman was a soloist in William Bolcom's Songs of Innocence and Experience, which received three Grammy Awards, including Best Classical Album.
She appeared in the "Phantom of the Opera" medley and closed the performance with "Ave Maria" in July 2007.
She has appeared in the United States, for example, in the Fall of 2009 with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, presenting Michael Tippett's Oratorio A Child of Our Time.
Jenny appeared in Weill/Brecht Rise and Fall of Mahagonny in the City of Mahagonny in 2010.
At the 2010 Winter Games' Opening Ceremonies, she performed the Olympic Hymn. "You's a hymn for you, right there," Bob Costas said during NBC's coverage of the opening ceremony. She arranged an English and French version of the hymn to honor Canada's official languages.
In 2012, Brueggergosman was a judge on Can's Got Talent, a national reality show. After one season, the show was eventually cancelled, but it was revived in 2022.
She has appeared in the films Brown Girl Begins and The Young Arsonists, as well as in the Murdoch Mysteries episode "Murdoch at the Opera."
For the National Arts Centre/CBC Gem series Undisrupted, she produced the symphonic short film Forgotten Coast, an investigation of Black Canadian history in Nova Scotia.