Anja Silja
Anna Silja Regina Langwagen (born April 17, 1940 in Berlin ) is a German opera singer ( soprano ).
Life
Silja gave her first recital at the age of 15 and made her debut in 1956 as Rosina in Gioachino Rossini's Barber of Seville at the Braunschweig State Theater . At the age of 19, Anja Silja sang the Queen of the Night in the Magic Flute under Karl Böhm at the Vienna State Opera and in Aix-en-Provence , there is a TV recording of this production.
The way to her career was paved by Wieland Wagner , who engaged her for further roles after her remarkable Bayreuth debut as Senta (1960). As a member of the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart , Anja Silja sang Marie in Alban Berg's Wozzeck , the title role in Berg's Lulu and Salome in the opera of the same name by Richard Strauss . With this role she also appeared at the Metropolitan Opera in New York .
In April 1990, Silja made her debut as a director with the production of Lohengrin at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels , but later concentrated on singing again and worked with the roles of sexton in Jenůfa , the Kabanicha in Katja Kabanova by Janáček , der Frau in expectation and Pierrot Lunaire (both works by Arnold Schönberg ) a broad repertoire in the character subject . Particular highlights were her regular appearances at the Glyndebourne Festival , particularly as Emilia Marty in The Makropulos Case (also by Janáček), a role with which she had made her debut in Stuttgart in 1970.
In 2014 she sang Grandmother in Bregenz in the new production of Stories from the Vienna Woods (Director: Michael Sturminger ), which was set to music by HK Gruber, as well as in the Vienna premiere at the Theater an der Wien on March 14, 2015.
Silja was married to the conductor Christoph von Dohnányi .
literature
- Josef Heinzelmann : Anja Silja . Rembrandt Verlag, 1965.
- Anja Silja: The longing for the unattainable . Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-932529-29-4 (self-portrayal).
Awards
- 1988 Federal Cross of Merit
- 2004 Grammy Awards
- 2005 Joana Maria Gorvin Prize
- 2011 European Culture Prize on March 4, 2011 in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt , laudator: Luc Bondy
Discography
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Ludwig van Beethoven
- Fidelio : Excerpts (Sergi; Lovro von Matačić , 1964) Eurodisc
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Alban Berg
- Lulu : Lulu Suite (Dohnányi, 1973) Decca
- Lulu ( Fassbaender , Walter Berry , Hans Hotter ; Dohnányi, 1976) Decca
- Wozzeck ( Eberhard Waechter ; Dohnányi, 1979) Decca
- Hans Werner Henze
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Leoš Janáček
- Jenůfa ( Karita Mattila , Silvasti, Hadley; Bernard Haitink , 2001) [live] Erato
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Giacomo Puccini
- Tosca : Excerpts in German ( James King , Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau ; Lorin Maazel , 1966) Decca
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Arnold Schoenberg
- Expectation ; Six songs (Dohnányi, 1979) Decca
- Pierrot Lunaire (Craft, 1999) Koch Entertainment
- Expectation (Craft, 2000) Koch Entertainment
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Richard Strauss
- Salome : Final scene (Dohnányi, 1973) Decca
- Salome (Nielsen, Robert Hale ; Michael Schønwandt , 1997) Chandos Records
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Richard Wagner
- The Flying Dutchman ( Franz Crass ; Wolfgang Sawallisch , 1961) [live] Philips
- Lohengrin ( Astrid Varnay , Jess Thomas , Ramón Vinay ; Sawallisch, 1962) [live] Philips
- Tannhäuser ( Grace Bumbry , Wolfgang Windgassen ; Sawallisch, 1962) [live] Philips
- Das Rheingold (Windgassen, Theo Adam ; Karl Böhm, 1966) [live] Philips
- Götterdämmerung ( Birgit Nilsson , Windgassen; Böhm, 1967) [live] Philips
- The Flying Dutchman (Adam, Martti Talvela ; Otto Klemperer , 1968) EMI
- Die Walküre ( Gabriele Schnaut , Marc, Elming, Hale; Dohnányi, 1992) Decca Records
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Kurt Weill
- The rise and fall of the city of Mahagonny ( Anny Schlemm , Neumann; Latham-König, 1985) Capriccio
- The Seven Deadly Sins (Nowak, 2002) Hänssler
- Russian songs Sergei Rachmaninov : 10 songs; Modest Mussorgsky : Songs and Dances of Death; Alexandr Scriabin : Piano Sonata No. 9 “Black Mass” Anja Silja, soprano, Andrej Hoteev , piano. - Photo: Berlin, Jesus-Christus-Kirche, 2009. SONY RCA Red Seal 88697 49036 2
DVDs
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Leoš Janáček
- Jenůfa (R. Alexander; A. Davis, director: Nikolaus Lehnhoff , 1989) [live]
- The Makropulos Affair (Tear; A. Davis, Director: Lehnhoff, 1995) [live]
- Richard Strauss
- Francis Poulenc:
- Dialogues des Carmélites (Choir and Orchestra of La Scala Milan under Riccardo Muti , Naxos 2004)
Web links
- Works by and about Anja Silja in the catalog of the German National Library
- Anja Silja on the side of her agency
- Portrait of Dieter David Scholz 2005
- People are the goal : Interview by Christine Lemke-Matwey , in: Der Tagesspiegel , January 24, 2009.
- Career of a children's trumpet. Portrait of Kirsten Liese 2010
- Anja Silja in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Full name, see Der Musik-Brockhaus , Wiesbaden: Brockhaus; Mainz: Schott, 1982, page 551
- ↑ Anja Silja at Operabase (engagements and dates).
- ↑ http://www.whoswho.de/templ/te_bio.php?RID=1&PID=32841
- ↑ http://www.whoswho.de/templ/te_bio.php?RID=1&PID=32841
- ↑ European Culture Prize to Anja Silja .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Silja, Anja |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Long carriage, Anna Silja Regina |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (soprano) |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 17, 1940 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |