Anja Silja

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Anja Silja at the stage exit of the Hamburg State Opera on March 31, 1968
Anja Silja with the pianist Andrei Hoteev , September 2007

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

Awards

Discography

DVDs

Web links

Commons : Anja Silja  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Full name, see Der Musik-Brockhaus , Wiesbaden: Brockhaus; Mainz: Schott, 1982, page 551
  2. ↑ Anja Silja at Operabase (engagements and dates).
  3. ↑ http://www.whoswho.de/templ/te_bio.php?RID=1&PID=32841
  4. ↑ http://www.whoswho.de/templ/te_bio.php?RID=1&PID=32841
  5. ↑ European Culture Prize to Anja Silja .
personal data
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