Violeta Urmana
Violeta Urmana , née Violeta Urmanavičiūtė (born 1961 in Jūrė near Kazlų Rūda , Marijampolė District , Lithuanian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Lithuanian opera singer ( mezzo-soprano , dramatic soprano ).
Life
Violeta Urmana studied piano at the Lithuanian Music and Theater Academy in Vilnius . After graduating as a pianist , she began to study singing in 1986, which she continued from 1991 to 1993 at the University of Music and Theater in Munich with Josef Loibl . At the same time she was a member of the opera studio of the Bavarian State Opera , where she continued her education with Astrid Varnay and was soon allowed to sing a minor role.
The artist has received numerous awards at international singing competitions. Offers from the major international opera stages quickly followed, and in 1993 her real career began. Taking on the role of Madeleine di Coigny in the opera Andrea Chénier at the Vienna State Opera in June 2003 marked her change of subject from mezzo-soprano to dramatic soprano, which she performed in Rome in March 2004 as Isolde in Tristan und Isolde and in autumn 2004 in London as Leonora finally took place in La forza del destino .
Violeta Urmana works with well-known conductors such as Claudio Abbado , Daniel Barenboim , Bertrand de Billy , Pierre Boulez , Semjon Bytschkow , Riccardo Chailly , James Conlon , Daniele Gatti , Valery Gergiev , James Levine , Jesús López Cobos , Fabio Luisi , Lorin Maazel , Kurt Masur , Zubin Mehta , Riccardo Muti , Sir Simon Rattle , Donald Runnicles , Esa-Pekka Salonen , Franz Welser-Möst and Christian Thielemann .
For song repertoire of Mana include compositions by Gustav Mahler , Bartók , Beethoven , Richard Strauss , Franz Liszt , Alban Berg , Arnold Schoenberg and Alexander von Zemlinsky .
social commitment
In March 2016 Violeta Urmana was named "UNESCO Artist for Peace" in Paris by Irina Bokowa , Director General of UNESCO . The honor was given in recognition of their constant efforts to use culture as a means of dialogue and the promotion of mutual understanding, and for their commitment to the realization of the goals of the UNESCO organization, especially in Africa.
The soprano is married to the tenor Alfredo Nigro .
Roles (selection)
- Medea in Medea (Cherubini)
- Tove in Gurre songs
- Aida / Amneris in Aida
- Azucena in Il Trovatore
- Amelia in A Masked Ball
- Ariadne in Ariadne on Naxos
- Elisabetta / Eboli in Don Carlos
- Isolde / Brangäne in Tristan and Isolde
- Judith in Duke Bluebeard's castle
- Ortrud in Lohengrin
- Kundry in Parsifal
- Lady Macbeth in Macbeth
- Norma / Adalgisa in Norma
- Sieglinde, Fricka, Brünnhilde in Die Walküre
- Tosca in Tosca
- Wally in La Wally
- La Gioconda in La Gioconda
- Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana
- Venus in Tannhauser
- Waltraute, Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung
- Soprano / mezzo-soprano in the Messa da Requiem by Verdi
Awards (selection)
- 2001 Woman of the Year (Lithuania)
- 2001 Singer of the Year (Lithuania)
- 2001 National Prize for Culture (Lithuania)
- 2001 Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas
- 2002 Critics' Prize Premio Abbiati (Italy)
- 2002 L'Opera Award (Italy)
- 2002 Royal Philharmonie Society Music Award (Great Britain)
- 2007 honorary citizen of her native city (Lithuania)
- 2007 LT-Tapatype (Lithuania)
- 2007 World Intellectual Property Organization Creativity Award
- 2009 Austrian chamber singer
- 2012 Awarded an honorary doctorate from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater
- 2014 Commendatore dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia (Italy)
- 2016 UNESCO Artist for Peace
Discography (selection)
- Das Lied von der Erde , Rückert-Lieder ( Gustav Mahler ): Deutsche Grammophon
- Siegfried (Wagner) : Penta Tone
- Best of Vienna Philharmonic Vol. VII : Deutsche Grammophon
- Andrea Chénier : Decca
- Messa da Requiem : (Naxos) profile of Hänssler
- Violeta Urmana sings songs by Liszt, Strauss, Berg : FARAO
- La Gioconda : EMI
- Oberto : Philips
- Tristan and Isolde : EMI
- Puccini Ritrovato (famous arias and ensembles by Puccini ): Deutsche Grammophon
- Parsifal: Mariinsky
DVDs
- Aida in the Metropolitan Opera, New York : Decca
- Macbeth : Bel Air classiques
- Un ballo in maschera : Opus Arte
- La canzone dei ricordi ( Giuseppe Martucci ): medici arts
- La forza del destino : TDK
- Aida at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan : Decca
- Cavalleria Rusticana : Opus Arte
- Don Carlos : Opus Arte
- Le rossignol : EMI
- Parsifal : Arthaus
Web links
- Recordings by Violeta Urmana in the catalog of the German National Library
- Violeta Urmana Homepage
- Interview with Violeta Urmana at Klassikinfo
- Violeta Urmana on medianotes.com
- Violeta Urmana on farao-classics.de
- Violeta Urmana on arte.tv.de
- Violeta Urmana on guardian.co.uk
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b UNESCO General-Director designates Lithuanian opera singer Violeta Urmana as UNESCO Artist for Peace , UNESCO, March 4, 2016, unesco.org, accessed on April 16, 2016
- ↑ Database of medal holders on the website of President Grybauskaitė , grybauskaite1.lrp.lt, accessed on April 16, 2016
- ↑ Violeta Urmana appointed chamber singer , vol.at, December 16, 2009, accessed on July 17, 2012.
- ↑ Violetai Urmanai suteiktas Garbės daktaro vardas - Report on the award ceremony (Lithuanian) , 15min.lt, March 15, 2012, accessed on July 17, 2012.
- ↑ Report on the award (Italian) ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , ambvilnius.esteri.it, .pdf, accessed on April 16, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Urmana, Violeta |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Urmanavičiūtė, Violeta (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lithuanian opera singer (mezzo-soprano, dramatic soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jūrė near Kazlų Rūda , Marijampolė District , Lithuanian SSR , Soviet Union |