Deborah Cook is a singer who has performed internationally as a soprano in various operas including Ariadne auf Naxos, Dinorah, and L'étoile du Nord.
Deborah Cook has recorded the title role in the opera "Dinorah" [Meyerbeer] with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Opera Rara, London; Prascovia in "L'E'Toile du Nord" [Meyerbeer], Opera Rara, London; Naiad in "Ariadne auf Naxos" [Strauss] Sir Georg Solti, London Symphony Orchestra, London.
Some of the many operatic roles performed by her in major opera houses throughout the world include: Zerbinetta, Ariadne auf Naxos; Lucia, Lucia di Lammermoor; Constanze, Abduction from the Seraglio; Queen of the Night, Magic Flute; Leila Pearl Fishers; Gilda, Rigoletto; Adina, Elixir of Love; Fiakermilli, Arabella; Guilietta, I Capuletti ed i Montecchi; Olympia, Tales of Hoffman; Despina, Cosi fan Tutte. The roles she created include Rachel, We Come to the River by Hans Werner Henze, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London; Angel of Bright Future, The Confidence Man, by George , Sante Fe Opera, New Mexico; The Soprano, ...die Siebte, by Anton Ruppert, Bayerische Staatsoper - Munich, Germany.
She has sung with numerous major orchestras in concert, among them the Philadelphia Orchestra; San Francisco Symphony; BBC Symphony Orchestra; Orchestre de Paris; Hong Kong Philharmonic; Dresden Philharmonic , BBC Symphony Orchestra; Australian Broadcasting Orchestra - Sydney; Melbourne and Adelaide; and the Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig, and with some of the greatest conductors of our time, including Pierre Boulez, Michael Tilson-Thomas, David Atherton, Nello Santi, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Sir Georg Solti, Charles MacKerras, Sir Charles Groves, Hans Vonk, and Jesus Lopez-Cobos.
Deborah made her debut at the Glyndeborne Opera as Zerbinetta in 1972, and her debut at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in 1976 as Gilda. She lived in Germany from 1972 through 1984 and during that time travelled extensively throughout Europe, concertizing and performing opera, lieder, and recording for radio productions.
Deborah Cook taught voice in the United States at the Haverford College and Bryn Mawr Colleges [PA] as Instructor of Voice; at the Westtown School [PA], in London, and in Germany She has sung as a Cantor in several synagogues, in Philadelphia, New York and Maine. In November 2005, she travelled to Leipzig, Germany to give a master class in German lieder at the Opera School, and sang at the University of Orono, ME in October 2004 the world premiere of a work by Ben Haim. The soprano resides now in Liberty, Maine, teaches privately, and also concertizes. Miss Cook is married to the pianist Ronald Marlowe