Anna Tomowa-Sintow

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Anna Tomowa-Sintow ( Bulgarian Анна Томова-Синтова ; born September 22, 1941 in Stara Zagora ) is a Bulgarian opera singer ( soprano ). She is a chamber singer at the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden and the Vienna State Opera .

Life

Anna Tomowa-Sintow studied at the State Conservatory in Sofia with Georgi Slatew-Tscherkin and Katja Spiridonowa. As a final exam she sang Tatjana in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin . Immediately afterwards she was hired at the opera studio in Leipzig. There she made her debut in the world premiere of Guyana Johnny by Alan Bush . Her first major operatic debut on stage was with Abigaille in Verdi's Nabucco . This was followed by many other major roles in the Italian and German subject, which she worked on with the conductor Rolf Reuter and Paul Schmitz (a former student of Richard Strauss ).

Her engagement in the ensemble of the Berlin State Opera in 1972 was followed by her international breakthrough in Paris with the Verdi Requiem a year later . Since then Anna Tomowa-Sintow has sung with the most important conductors (such as Karl Böhm , Riccardo Chailly , Herbert von Karajan , Carlos Kleiber , Lorin Maazel , Zubin Mehta , Riccardo Muti and Wolfgang Sawallisch ) and at all major opera houses (such as the Bavarian State Opera , Lyric Opera of Chicago , Deutsche Oper Berlin , Milan Scala , Metropolitan Opera New York, Royal Opera House Covent Garden and Vienna State Opera) and festivals (especially at the Salzburg Festival and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino ). She worked particularly closely with the conductor Herbert von Karajan for 17 years. In 2001 she celebrated her 35th stage anniversary with a concert performance of Verdi's Aida at the Sofia National Opera.

Anna Tomowa-Sintow passes on her experience of the stage and concert hall to the younger generation in numerous master classes in various countries and is a jury member at international singing competitions.

Born Anna Tomowa is married to Albert Sintow. The couple have a daughter.

roll

  • Vincenzo Bellini : Norma ( Norma ).
  • Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin : Yaroslavna ( Prince Igor )
  • Umberto Giordano : Maddalena ( Andrea Chenier )
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold : Heliane ( The miracle of the Heliane )
  • Pietro Mascagni : Santuzza ( Cavalleria Rusticana )
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Donna Anna ( Don Giovanni ), Contessa ( Figaro's wedding ), Fiordiligi ( Così fan tutte )
  • Giacomo Puccini : Tosca ( Tosca ), Turandot ( Turandot ), Madama Butterfly, Manon Lescaut
  • Richard Strauss : Marschallin ( Der Rosenkavalier ), Kaiserin ( The Woman Without a Shadow ), Ariadne ( Ariade on Naxos ), Arabella ( Arabella ), Helena ( The Egyptian Helena ), Madeleine ( Capriccio ), Salome
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky : Tatjana ( Eugene Onegin )
  • Giuseppe Verdi : Abigaille ( Nabucco ), Aida, Desdemona ( Otello ), Elisabeth ( Don Carlo ), Violetta ( La Traviata ), Amelia ( Un ballo in maschera ), Amelia ( Simon Boccanegra ), Leonora ( La forza del destino ), Leonora ( Il trovatore )
  • Richard Wagner : Elisabeth ( Tannhäuser ), Elsa ( Lohengrin ), Sieglinde ( Die Walküre )

In addition to her work on the opera stage, Anna Tomowa-Sintow also has a wide repertoire of songs and is also involved in important sacred and symphonic works (e.g. Beethoven's 9th Symphony) worldwide.

Recordings (selection)

  • Beethoven: 9th Symphony , Deutsche Grammophon
  • Brahms: A German Requiem , EMI
  • Korngold: The miracle of the Heliane , (role: Heliane) Decca
  • Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro , (role: Countess) EMI
  • Mozart: Don Giovanni , (role: Donna Anna) Deutsche Grammophon
  • Mozart: Die Zauberflöte , (role: 1st lady) Deutsche Grammophon
  • Mozart: Requiem , Deutsche Grammophon
  • Puccini: Madama Butterfly , (role: Butterfly) Capriccio
  • Puccini: Gianni Schicchi , (role: Lauretta) Eterna
  • Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos , (role: Ariadne) Deutsche Grammophon
  • Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier , (Role: Marschallin) Deutsche Grammophon
  • Strauss: Capriccio , (role: Countess) Orfeo
  • Strauss: Four Last Songs , Deutsche Grammophon
  • Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin , (role: Tatyana) Sony
  • Verdi: Aida , (role: Aida) Orfeo
  • Verdi: Otello , (role: Desdemona) Orfeo
  • Verdi: Requiem , Deutsche Grammophon
  • Wagner: Lohengrin , (role: Elsa) EMI
  • An evening at the opera with Anna Tomowa-Sintow , Eterna
  • Anna Tomowa-Sintow sings famous opera arias , Orfeo
  • L'Art d'Anna Tomowa-Sintow , Forlane

Awards

Tomowa-Sintow received gold medals at the international singing competitions in Sofia and Rio de Janeiro and Grammy Awards for her Ariadne (in the recording of Ariadne auf Naxos under the direction of James Levine) and for her Donna Anna (in the recording of Don Giovanni under directed by Herbert von Karajan). She also received the Orphée d'Or for her recording of Four Last Songs , also under the direction of Herbert von Karajan.

In 1974 she received the National Prize of the GDR III. Art and literature class.

literature

  • Rolf Richter: The world star who came from Leipzig , In: Leipziger Blätter No. 60, 2012, ISSN  0232-7244 , pp. 75-77

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personal data
SURNAME Tomowa-Sintow, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Томова-Синтова, Анна (Bulgarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Stara Zagora