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[[File:Megan Marie Hart 2008.jpg|thumb|Megan Marie Hart (2008)]]

'''[[w:Megan Marie Hart|Megan Marie Hart]]''' (born [[1983]]) is an American operatic soprano.

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== Quotes ==
* She helped me feel like I could take risks with the music, which you’re often told not to do. When you watch her, you see that it makes a difference. From now on, I am not going to be afraid to individualize my performances to the max. '''I won’t be afraid of liberties, if the score permits them.''' I know I can do it.
** on [[w:Marilyn Horne|Marilyn Horne]]'s influence; 2005, as quoted by Zachary Lewis [https://solokeyboard.typepad.com/Music2005Final.doc] and edited into the Oberlin Review article ''The Marilyn Horne Experience'' [http://www2.oberlin.edu/con/connews/2006/of_note.html#3]

*''Mimì vergisst nie, die Schönheit im Leben zu sehen.''
**'''Mimì never forgets to see the beauty in life.'''
** on her role in [[Giacomo Puccini|Puccini]]'s ''[[w:La bohème|La bohème]]'', as quoted by Martina Noltemeier in ''[https://issuu.com/frizz-magazin-darmstadt/docs/frizz_da_1120_ausgabe_452/15 Puccini ist ein Fan der Liebe]'', FRIZZ - Das Magazin, FRIZZ Media, Darmstadt, issue 11/2020, page 15 (in German)

* '''When an audience gives you love, you can feel it.'''
** Quoted from "It's not about the place that I perform, it is about the audience. When an audience gives you love, you can feel it. You can connect with the audience.", as quoted on [https://beruhmte-zitate.de/zitate/2119125-megan-marie-hart-wenn-ein-publikum-dir-liebe-gibt-kannst-du-es-fuh/# Zitate berühmter Personen]. Said during the "2021 Spring Chautauqua Virtual Concert Series Megan Marie Hart".

*''Jüdische Geschichte ist voll von Leiden und schrecklichem Kummer. Aber sie ist auch voll von unermesslicher Freude.'' '''''Wir ehren das Leiden durch Erinnern. Wir ehren die Freude durch Feiern.'''''
**Jewish history is full of suffering and terrible sorrow. But it is also full of immeasurable joy. '''We honor the suffering through remembrance. We honor the joy through celebration.'''
**from "''Persönliche Notiz''", in the recital program for the opening event of festival year "100 days, 1700 years – Jewish life in Darmstadt".[https://www.darmstadt-tourismus.de/en/visit/events/events/artikel/detail/juedisches-leben-in-darmstadt-festjahr-100-tage-1700-jahre.html] ''Liedgut – Famous Musicians of Jewish Origin'' (2021), [http://web.archive.org/web/20210902070031/https://staatstheater-darmstadt.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/produktion/programmbuch/994?response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3D%22210831_PH_Liedgut_web.pdf%22&response-cache-control=public&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAUCI3T77LT4YWGJ7O%2F20210902%2Feu-central-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20210902T070031Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=600&X-Amz-Signature=d36591acd16fc78b29808a50bfaf03d75dc5d97aaab1945548d8ad24040d4a9d p. 2]

*'''Directors have decided that Donna Anna wants to be raped by Don Giovanni and is in love with him'''
**Quoted from "I can't tell you how many directors have decided that Donna Anna wants to be raped by Don Giovanni and is in love with him, even though she has never seen him before," said American soprano Megan Marie Hart. "I think it is easier than actually asking me what I think or how I see it as a woman." in the ''Ms.'' magazine article ''A Feminist in Frills: Why Sexism Is a Problem In Opera'' by Claire Kenny, 2023,[https://msmagazine.com/2023/03/17/women-sexism-opera/], as quoted on [https://beruhmte-zitate.de/zitate/2196145-megan-marie-hart-directors-have-decided-that-donna-anna-wants-to-be/ Zitate berühmter Personen].

*''Unglaublich viel Musik, die wir kennen, ist von jüdischen Künstlern. Sie sind immer da. Es weiß nur niemand, dass sie Juden sind.''
**'''An incredible amount of the music we know is by Jewish artists. They are always there. It's just that nobody knows that they are Jewish.'''
**on the programming of her upcoming recital for the Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2025, from "''[https://www.lz.de/lippe/detmold/24000580_Musikalisches-Gedenken-Megan-Marie-Hart-singt-wieder-in-Detmold.html|Musikalisches Gedenken: Megan Marie Hart singt wieder in Detmold]''", Chiara Wibbeke, Lippische Landes-Zeitung, 11. Dezember 2024.


==About ''{{PAGENAME}}''==
*''Ob Sie Adeles "Skyfall" von Megan Marie Hart intonieren, von [[Kylie Minogue]] piepsen oder von [[Tupac Shakur]] rappen lassen, macht einen Unterschied.''
**'''Whether you have Adele's "Skyfall" intoned by Megan Marie Hart, beeped by Kylie Minogue, or rapped by Tupac Shakur makes a difference.'''
**Stephan Waldscheidt, "Der Erzähler", p. 11. Neobooks 2009. ISBN 9783748559665

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