While Sellars's work was predictably controversial, Lorraine Hunt emerged as an exciting vocal talent.įor the next decade Lorraine Hunt's career thrived as she collaborated with the early-music conductor Nicholas McGegan and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra on a series of Harmonia Mundi recordings of G.F.
Her role was Sesto, the avenging son of Pompey, though in this production, zapped to the present day Middle East, Sesto was a terrorist armed with an Uzi. Her breakthrough as a singer came with the Pepsico Summerfare festival in Purchase, New York, in 1985 when she was cast by Peter Sellars in his production of George Frideric Handel's Giulio Cesare. Lorraine Hunt began focussing fully on singing only when she was 26, what may account for the musical depth and intelligence of her vocal artistry. But during these years she also studied voice at Boston Conservatory. She was particularly drawn to the music program at Emmanuel Church in the Back Bay section of Boston, where Craig Smith conducted the orchestra and choir. When a French horn player she was dating got a job with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, she moved with him to Boston, soon becoming a valued freelance musician. She played in a cutting-edge string quartet called "Novaj Kordoj" (Esperanto for "New Strings").
Upon graduation, Lorraine Hunt became a freelance player in the Bay Area noted for her expertise in contemporary music. She studied voice and viola at San Jose State University. At 12 she switched to viola and began playing in youth orchestras and singing in the high school choir. Her taskmaster father was single-minded in his desire to develop her musical gifts, arranging first for her to study the piano and then the violin. The American mezzo-soprano, Lorraine Hunt, was born to musical parents: Randolph Hunt, a music teacher and a conductor of community ensembles and operas, and Marcia Hunt, a contralto and a voice teacher.
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