{"id":12286,"date":"2023-12-11T16:34:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T16:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=12286"},"modified":"2023-12-11T16:34:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T16:34:22","slug":"legendary-voice-teacher-marlena-malas-dies-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2023\/12\/11\/legendary-voice-teacher-marlena-malas-dies-87\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Voice Teacher Marlena Malas Dies at 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12287\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12287\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12287\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/12\/Marlena-Malas.jpg\" alt=\"Marlena Malas\" width=\"1200\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/12\/Marlena-Malas.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/12\/Marlena-Malas-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/12\/Marlena-Malas-1024x579.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/12\/Marlena-Malas-768x434.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12287\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marlena Malas (Photo: Chautauqua School of Music)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Marlena Kleinman Malas, voice teacher to many renowned opera singers, died on December 4, 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s Up:<\/strong> On December 4th, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juilliard.edu\/music\/faculty\/malas-marlena\">Marlena Kleinman Malas<\/a> passed away at the age of 87. Malas taught at the Manhattan School of Music, the Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute of Music. She was also Chair of the Voice Department at the Chautauqua Institute as well as a teacher for the Canadian Opera Company (since 1979), the Metropolitan Opera\u2019s Lindemann Young Artist Program, the English National Opera, the Santa Fe Opera, the Castleton Festival, and the Chicago Lyric Opera Young Artist Program among other places.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Refresher:<\/strong> Marlena Kleinman began her career as a mezzo-soprano, studying at the Curtis Institute and performing at the New York City Opera. In 1963 she married the bass player Spiro<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/07\/03\/arts\/music\/spiro-malas-dead.html\"> Malas<\/a>. Malas\u2019 many renowned voice students included Susan Graham, Richard Stilwell, Michael Schade, Paul Groves, Matthew Rose, Judith Haddon, Neil Shicoff and Tatiana Troyanos.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Digging Deeper:<\/strong> On social media, <a href=\"https:\/\/myscena.org\/zenith-wolfe\/highlights-musicians-pay-tribute-to-marlena-malas\/\">tributes<\/a> from famous singers, opera companies and musical institutions have poured out since Malas\u2019 death. The legendary vocal accompanist and former head of music at the Metropolitan Opera <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mariinsky.ru\/en\/company\/orchestra\/piano\/rutenberg\/\">Craig Rutenberg<\/a> praised her as \u201cthe best voice teacher I\u2019ve known in the nearly 60 years I\u2019ve been around teachers\u201d and \u201ca rare musician who brought the four worlds of technique, text, music and beauty together like no one else.\u201d RIP, and thank you, Mrs. Malas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marlena Kleinman Malas, voice teacher to many renowned opera singers, died on December 4, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":12287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[86,3,284,233],"tags":[363],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/12\/Marlena-Malas.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12288,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12286\/revisions\/12288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12286"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}