Falcon, Ruth (1948– )

US soprano. She studied in New York and made her debut at the City Opera in 1974, as Micaela. Her European debut was in Berne, in 1975, in Mayr's Medea in Corinto. She sang at the Bayerische Staatsoper 1976–80, as Verdi's Leonoras and Mozart's Countess and Elettra, at the Paris Opéra in 1981, as Donna Anna, and at the Vienna Staatsoper in 1983, as Leonora in Il trovatore/The Troubadour. She made her debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, in 1987, and at the New York Metropolitan Opera House in 1989, in both cases as the Empress in Die Frau ohne Schatten/The Woman Without a Shadow. Her other roles include Anna Bolena (which she performed in Nice, in 1985), Norma, and Ariadne.