Astrid Varnay (Astrid Varnay) |

Astrid Varnay

A cikin 1937 ta fara yin wasan kwaikwayo a ƙarƙashin sunan Melanie a Kwalejin Kiɗa na Brooklyn. A cikin 1941 ta fara halarta ta farko a Metropolitan Opera (Sieglinde a cikin Valkyrie), ta maye gurbin L. Lehman mara lafiya. Ta yi a nan har zuwa 1956. Daga 1948 ta yi wasa a Turai (Covent Garden da sauransu). A 1951, singer ya kasance mai girma nasara a cikin rawar Lady Macbeth (Florence). Daga 1951 ta rera waka akai-akai a Bayreuth Festival (Brünnhilde a Der Ring des Nibelungen, Isolde, Kundry a Parsifal, da sauransu). A cikin 1959 ta shiga cikin farkon duniya na Orff's Oedipus Rex a Stuttgart (Jocasta).

Aikinta ya dade. A shekarar 1995, da singer samu nasarar yi wani bangare na Emma a Khovanshchina a Munich. Daga cikin jam'iyyun har da Leonora a Il trovatore, Santuzza a Rural Honor, Salome, Electra da sauransu. Mawallafin tarihin (1996). Rikodi sun haɗa da Senta a cikin Wagner's Flying Dutchman (shugaba Knappertsbusch, Music & Arts), Uwar Goose a Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress (shugaba Chaii, Decca).

E. Tsodokov