Diamanda Galás
- Music Department
- Composer
- Actress
Raised in San Diego, California, Galás was born to Greek Orthodox
parents, who always encouraged her gift for piano. Galás studied a wide
range of musical forms, as well as visual-art performance, and then
moved to to Europe where she made her performance debut at the Festival
d'Avignon in France in 1979, performing the lead in the opera, "Un Jour
Comme Un Autre," by composer Vinko Globokar, based upon the Amnesty
International documentation of the arrest and torture of a Turkish
woman for alleged treason.
Releasing her first recorded work in 1982, Galás' numerous musical and theatrical works include the pivotal "Plague Mass" (1990), the haunting mass for People with Aids, "Vena Cava"(1992), the solo voice and electronic work concerning AIDS dementia and clinical depression, "Schrei 27" (1996), which deals with torture in isolation, and the concerts/recordings of "Malediction and Prayer," (1998), "Judgement Day," "Concert for the Damned," and "The Masque of the Red Death" (1984 to 1988). Galás is working (as of 2005) on the composition and commissioning of the opera "Nekropolis."
Releasing her first recorded work in 1982, Galás' numerous musical and theatrical works include the pivotal "Plague Mass" (1990), the haunting mass for People with Aids, "Vena Cava"(1992), the solo voice and electronic work concerning AIDS dementia and clinical depression, "Schrei 27" (1996), which deals with torture in isolation, and the concerts/recordings of "Malediction and Prayer," (1998), "Judgement Day," "Concert for the Damned," and "The Masque of the Red Death" (1984 to 1988). Galás is working (as of 2005) on the composition and commissioning of the opera "Nekropolis."
