Tatiana Troyanos (September 12, 1938 – August 21, 1993) was an American mezzo-soprano remembered as "one of the defining singers of her generation". Her voice, "a paradoxical voice — larger than life yet intensely human, brilliant yet warm, lyric yet dramatic" — "was the kind you recognize after one bar, and never forget", wrote Cori Ellison in Opera News.Ellison, Cori. "Tatiana Troyanos: 1938-1993", Opera News, vol. 58, no. 5, November 1993.
Troyanos' performances "covered the full range of... meer