repertoire Oscar in Un ballo in maschera, Manon in Massenet's Manon and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro. In 1964, she made an acclaimed debut as Zerbinetta at the Salzburg Festival, where she performed throughout twelve seasons in Mozart and R. Strauss operas conducted by Karl Böhm, Zubin Mehta and Herbert von Karajan. Grist's Metropolitan Opera debut on February 25, 1966, was as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia. Additional roles throughout thirteen seasons included Gilda, Oscar, Olympia, Sophie and Zerbinetta. From 1965 to 1987, she performed regularly at the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich in new productions, among which were Richard Strauss' Die schweigsame Frau, Falstaff, Le Nozze di Figaro, and Il barbiere di Siviglia. Guest appearances included performances at Lyric Opera of Chicago, Deutsche Oper Berlin, La Scala Milano, Buenos Aires, Holland Festival, and Die Wiener Festwochen. Grist ended her operatic career in 1991 at De Nederlandse Opera, Amsterdam, in the one-woman opera, Neither by Morton Feldman/Samuel Beckett, directed by Pierre Audi. In that year, she also sang the role of "the Italian Singer" in the San Francisco Opera production of Cappriccio. Grist has held professorships in Voice at the School of Music, Indiana University Bloomington and at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Munich. Honors include the title of Bayerische Kammersängerin awarded to her in 1976 and a Legacy Award of the American Opera Association in 2001. Grist lives in Germany with her husband, orchestra administrator Dr. Ulf Thomson. Filmography Ariadne auf Naxos (1965), Zerbinetta Le nozze di Figaro (1966), Susanna Don Pasquale (1972), Norina Un ballo in maschera (1975), Oscar Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1980), Blondchen Die schweigsame Frau (1972), Aminta Reri Grist – Singer, (1976), director Axel Corti Da Capo with August Everding, (1996) Tatort, Bayerischer Rundfunk, (1996) Aida's Brothers and Sisters, Marieke Schroeder Opera is Theatre/Oper ist Theater, (2002) Marieke Schroeder References Notes Sources The Metropolitan Opera Encyclopedia, edited by David Hamilton, (Simon and Schuster, New York 1987). Opera News magazine, February 2006 issue 1932 births Living people American operatic sopranos The High School of Music & Art alumni 20th-century African-American women singers 20th-century American women opera singers African-American women opera singers Singers from New York City Queens College, City University of New York alumni Indiana University faculty Academic staff of the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich 21st-century American women singers 21st-century American singers Classical musicians from New York (state) American women academics