Shade, Ellen (1944– )

US soprano. She studied at the Juilliard School, New York, and made debut at Frankfurt in 1972, as Liù. She made her US debut at Pittsburgh in 1972, as Micaela. Between 1976 and 1978 she appeared with the Chicago Lyric Opera, as Emma in Khovanshchina and Eve in the first performance of Penderecki's Paradise Lost. She sang Wagner's Eva in New York, at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1976, and was Donna Elvira with the New York City Opera, in 1981. In 1988 she appeared as Florinda in Schubert's Fierrabras in Vienna, and Káta Kabanova at Geneva. Further roles included Sieglinde in the Ring at the Metropolitan Opera House, and the Empress in Die Frau ohne Schatten/The Woman without a Shadow at the 1992 Salzburg Festival.