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Astrid Varnay

Mu 1937 anayamba kuimba pansi pa pseudonym Melanie pa Brooklyn Academy of Music. Mu 1941 adawonekera koyamba ku Metropolitan Opera (Sieglinde ku The Valkyrie), m'malo mwa L. Lehman wodwala. Anaimba kuno mpaka 1956. Kuyambira 1948 adachita ku Ulaya (Covent Garden ndi ena). Mu 1951, woimbayo anali wopambana kwambiri pa udindo wa Lady Macbeth (Florence). Kuchokera mu 1951 anaimba mobwerezabwereza pa Chikondwerero cha Bayreuth (Brünnhilde ku Der Ring des Nibelungen, Isolde, Kundry ku Parsifal, ndi ena). Mu 1959 adatenga nawo gawo pawonetsero wapadziko lonse wa Orff's Oedipus Rex ku Stuttgart (Jocasta).

Ntchito yake inapitirira kwa nthawi yaitali. Mu 1995, woimba bwinobwino anachita mbali ya Emma mu Khovanshchina mu Munich. Pakati pa maphwando palinso Leonora ku Il trovatore, Santuzza ku Rural Honor, Salome, Electra ndi ena. Wolemba zikumbutso (1996). Zojambulidwa zikuphatikiza Senta mu Wagner's The Flying Dutchman (conductor Knappertsbusch, Music & Arts), Mother Goose mu Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress (conductor Chaii, Decca).

E. Tsodokov