Anja Silja
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Anja Silja...in 1990 at Brussels with Lohengrin. She then assumed the roles of Agave in The Bassarids (at Carnegie Hall), Ortrud in Lohengrin (in Robert Wilson's production), Herodias in Salome, Anna I in Die sieben Todsunden, Klytamnestra in Elektra,... In this article: Anja Silja, Leonora, Lohengrin, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Salome, Lady Macbeth, Carmen, Siegfried, and Tannhauser |
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... director Robert Wilson, and new productions of Donizetti's Maria ... From "Deafman Glance." Soprano Anja Silja and Wilson himself will appear in the scene. ...
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Anja Silja ( b Berlin, 17 April 1940). German soprano. Her début was as ... Hall), Ortrud in Lohengrin (in Robert Wilson's production), Herodias in Salome, ...
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Anja Silja, nearly 70 and still going strong - Telegraph
... as she prepares for a Covent Garden role. She talks to Rupert Christiansen ... has worked with, notably Ruth Berghaus and Robert Wilson, and is enjoying her ...
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Anja Silja began her operatic career at a very early age, with her grandfather, ... Robert Wilson may refer to:* Rob Wilson , British politician and entrepreneur, ...
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Vienna: Anja Silja and Martina Serafin in Nemirova's new Pique Dame ... robert carsen (18) robert dean smith (11) robert lepage (3) robert wilson (3) ...
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Anja Silja, born April 17, 1940, in Berlin, is a German soprano who is known for her great abilities as a singing-actress and for the vastness of her repertoire.
Anja Silja began her operatic career at a very early age, with her grandfather, Egon Friedrich Maria Anders van Rijn, as her voice teacher. She sang Rosina in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia at Braunschweig, in 1956, following this with Micaëla in Carmen and Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos. The important part of her career began in 1959, when she sang the Queen of Night in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at the Staatsoper in Vienna (under Karl Böhm) and the Aix-en-Provence Festival. France-Soir immediately dubbed her "a second Callas." Other early roles included Leonora in Il trovatore, Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana, the four heroines of Les contes d'Hoffmann, Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte.
After her debut in 1960 at the Bayreuth Festival, as Senta in Der fliegende Holländer, she began a relationship with the stage director Wieland Wagner. At Bayreuth, she also sang Elsa in Lohengrin (opposite Astrid Varnay), Elisabeth in Tannhäuser, Eva in Die Meistersinger, Venus in Tannhäuser, Freia in Das Rheingold, the Waldvogel in Siegfried, etc. Outside Bayreuth, the soprano appeared in Wieland Wagner's productions of Salome, Tristan und Isolde, Die Walküre and Siegfried (as Brünnhilde), Elektra, Fidelio, Otello, Lulu, Wozzeck (conducted by Pierre Boulez), and other operas. Of her Salome, Harold Rosenthal wrote in Opera, in 1968:
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