Mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung has won the 1995 Marian Anderson Award with its $25,000 stipend, the administrators of the prize announced recently.
The prize is given annually to an American singer "of great promise," as prize officials describe it, in opera, recital and the orchestra-oratorio repertory.DeYoung was raised in Colorado and California and joined the Metropolitan Opera's Young Artist Development Program in 1992. She sang with the Wolf Trap Opera in July and will sing in "Die Zauberflote," "Aida" and "Die Walkure" at the Metropolitan this season.
The Marian Anderson Prize was founded by friends of the late singer in 1989.