American contralto wins in Norway
OperaContralto Jasmin White, 30, has been pronounced winner of Norway’s Queen Sonja Competition.
She previously placed second in Belgium’s Queen Elisabeth.
Originally from Grand Ronde, Oregon, she has been a member of the Vienna Volksoper studio and is agented by IMG Artists. She takes home fifty thousand Euros from Oslo.
“She” also identifies as non-binary and uses the pronouns they / them, as you have been told before when they participated in the Queen Elisabeth Competition. I know you don’t care but you should, and I know some of your readers will spit on them but that says more about those readers than about Jasmine White.
If Jasmine White is a contralto, she is by definition female.
When William Christie did Handel’s “Trionfo del tempo e del disinganno” at Juilliard in 2022 she sang Disinganno. She was marvelous. (So was Julie Roset, who sang Bellezza.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV5renUZfEU
Congratulations to Ms White.
Is the agents and their firms who have decided that their activity needs a new verb to replace the perfectly adequate “represent”? “Agent” as a verb trips clumsily off the tongue, especially in the passive voice (“agented”: yuck). What’s wrong with “IMG Artists represents Ms. White”?
Agreed, but is it misuse by IMG or this site?
Well said, Peter. I’m afraid that NL has demonstrated to us on several occasions that there ain’t no noun that can’t be verbed.
To my mind that’s a major strength of the English language.
Congratulations. I’m sure you worked hard to get where you are.
Congratulations, Jessie! It couldn’t have happened to a more talented contralto…or anyone else! Your star is ever on the ascent!.We’re all so incredibly proud of you!
If she won the competition, why does she look so sad?
Yes, incorrect pronouns are the most important takeaway from this announcement of the achievement(s).
We all pick our own causes.