Muriel Costa-Greenspon

Who was Muriel Costa-Greenspon?

Muriel Costa-Greenspon was an American mezzo-soprano who had a lengthy career at the New York City Opera between 1963-1993. She portrayed a gallery of character roles that extended from twentieth-century works by Leonard Bernstein, Benjamin Britten, Carlisle Floyd, Lee Hoiby, Arthur Honegger, Gian Carlo Menotti, and Douglas Moore, to the contralto heroines of Gilbert and Sullivan, and comic scene-stealers by Puccini, Mozart, and Donizetti. She was known not only for her abilities as a singer and musician but also as an accomplished actress; being able to create three-dimensional characters, rather than mere caricatures.