Anita Salta
Anita Salta (born September 1, 1937 in New York ) is an American opera singer (soprano) and vocal teacher.
Life
Anita Salta grew up in Hollywood , where she attended Hollywood High School and Los Angeles City College and qualified in music and languages. During her studies, which she financed through her work as a secretary at the record company Columbia Records , she worked in the renowned Roger Wagner Chorale and at the end of her studies she appeared as Rosalinde in Johann Strauss ' Fledermaus . She then studied with her uncle Menotti Salta in New York and won the Bertolli Trading Corporation and New York City Center awards in a radio competition . In 1959 she was among the finalists of the American Opera Auditions in Cincinnati and had her debuts as Aida in Giuseppe Verdi 's opera of the same name in Jacksonville (Florida) and in the Toledo Opera in 1959. In the USA she then appeared in numerous companies and roles, as well as in radio and television productions. At the Stadium Concerts in New York she appeared for the first time in August 1960 with the soprano part in Carmina Burana by Carl Orff (conductor: Alfred Wallenstein ).
After moving to Europe, she was engaged at a number of German theaters, including in Augsburg , Bremerhaven , Dortmund , Essen , Eutin , Hanover , Kassel , Nuremberg , Stuttgart , Wuppertal . She took on longer permanent engagements from 1963 to 1966 in Bremerhaven and from 1967 to 1974 in Augsburg.
As Odabella in the German premiere of Verdi's Attila in Bremerhaven 1964 (conductor: Hans Kindler, director: Erich Thormann) she was triumphantly celebrated (“what a soprano!”), The critic of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit “was skeptical” and “went overwhelmed".
She also celebrated extraordinary success as a singer and actress in the title role of Katerina Ismailova from Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth from Mzensk (in Augsburg) and as Tosca (including in Essen, where she worked from 1974 to 1980).
After finishing her career as a soprano, she worked as a singing teacher. Her numerous students include Birgit Cicha, Franziska Dannheim , Sibylle Eichhorn, Robin Fisher, Susanne Hille, Melody Kielisch, Martina Klesse, Annegret Krella, Cynthia Makris, Anneli Pfeffer, Margaret Russell and Matthias Widmaier .
repertoire
Italian opera
- Gluck : Alceste - Alceste
- Mozart : Le nozze di Figaro - Contessa
- Mozart: Don Giovanni - Donna Anna
- Mozart: Così fan tutte - Fiordiligi
- Verdi : Attila - Odabella
- Verdi: Il trovatore - Leonora
- Verdi: La traviata - Violetta
- Verdi: Les vêpres siciliennes - Hélène
- Verdi: La forza del destino - Leonora
- Verdi: Don Carlos - Elisabetta
- Verdi: Aida - Aida
- Verdi: Otello - Desdemona
- Puccini : La Bohème - Mimi
- Puccini: Tosca - Floria Tosca
- Puccini: Madama Butterfly - Cho-Cho-San
- Pietro Mascagni : Cavalleria rusticana - Santuzza
German opera
- Wagner : Lohengrin - Elsa
- Wagner: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg - Eva
- Strauss : Salome - Salome
- Strauss: Elektra - Chrysothemis
- Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier - Marschallin
- Strauss: Ariadne on Naxos - Ariadne
Slavic Opera (sung in German)
- Glinka A life for the tsar - Antonida
- Smetana : The Bartered Bride - Marie (Marenka)
- Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin - Tatiana
- Janáček : Jenůfa - Jenůfa
- Shostakovich : Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk - Katerina Ismailova
French and English opera
- Gounod : Faust - Marguerite
- Britten : Albert Herring - Lady Billows
literature
- David M. Cummings: International Who's Who in Music and Musicians' Directory (in the Classical and light Classical Fields) . Vol. One 2000/2001, p. 563.
- Stadium Concerts Review
- Stadttheater Bremerhaven: 100 years of opera at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven - a documentary . Bremerhaven 1972.
- Herbert Hauck : Theater in Essen 1974–1978. A documentation. Photo review of the 1974–1978 seasons . Wuppertal 1978.
Web links
- Anita Salta at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johannes Jacobi: Attila in Die Zeit (December 11, 1964, No. 50), p. 16.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Salta, Anita |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American opera singer (soprano) and vocal teacher |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 1, 1937 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | new York |