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Astrid Varnay

I te tau 1937 i timata ia ki te mahi i raro i te ingoa pseudonym Melanie i te Brooklyn Academy of Music. I te tau 1941 ka puta tana tuatahitanga ki te Metropolitan Opera (Sieglinde i The Valkyrie), hei whakakapi i a L. Lehman e mate ana. I mahi ia i konei tae noa ki te tau 1956. Mai i te tau 1948 ka mahi ia i Uropi (Covent Garden me etahi atu). I te tau 1951, he tino angitu te kaiwaiata i te mahi a Lady Macbeth (Florence). Mai i te tau 1951 ka waiata tonu ia i te Huihuinga Bayreuth (Brünnhilde i Der Ring des Nibelungen, Isolde, Kundry i Parsifal, me etahi atu). I te tau 1959 i uru ia ki te whakaaturanga tuatahi o te ao o Orff's Oedipus Rex i Stuttgart (Jocasta).

I haere tonu tana mahi mo te wa roa. I te tau 1995, i pai te mahi a te kaiwaiata i te wahanga o Emma i Khovanshchina i Munich. I roto i nga roopu ko Leonora ano i Il trovatore, Santuzza i Rural Honor, Salome, Electra me etahi atu. Kaituhi o nga mahara (1996). Ko nga rekoata ko Senta i roto i te waiata a Wagner's The Flying Dutchman (kaiwhakahaere Knappertsbusch, Waiata & Toi), Whaea Kuihi i Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress (kaiwhakahaere Chaii, Decca).

E. Tsodokov