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Agnes Baltsa

Ua hana ʻo ia i kāna hana mua ma 1968 (Frankfurt, ʻāpana o Cherubino). Ua hīmeni ʻo ia ma Vienna Opera mai 1970, ma 1974 ua hīmeni ʻo ia i ka ʻāpana o Dorabella ma "Everybody Does It So" ma ke kahua o La Scala. Mai ka makahiki 1976 ma Covent Garden, ua huakaʻi nui ʻo ia i ʻAmelika me Karajan i ka makahiki hoʻokahi. Ua hīmeni ʻo ia i nā manawa he nui ma ka Salzburg Festival (1977, ka ʻāpana o Eboli i ka opera Don Carlos; 1983, ka ʻāpana o Octavian ma The Rosenkavalier; 1985, ka ʻāpana o Carmen). I ka makahiki 1979, ua ho'omaka 'o ia ma ka Metropolitan Opera 'o Octavian. Nui ka lanakila i hele pū me Balts i ka makahiki 1985 ma La Scala (Romeo ma Bellini's Capulets a me Montagues). I ka makahiki 1996, hīmeni ʻo ia i ke poʻo inoa ma Giordano's Fedora ma Vienna Opera. ʻOkoʻa ka papa mele a ka mea mele. Ma waena o nā kuleana o Isabella ma Rossini's Italian Girl ma Algiers, Rosina, Delilah, Orpheus ma Gluck's Orpheus a me Eurydice, Olga a me nā mea ʻē aʻe.

Hoʻokaʻawale ʻia ka hīmeni ʻana o Balts e kahi ʻano kūikawā a me ka ʻōlelo. Ua hana i nā leo he nui. Aia ma waena o lākou nā kuleana poʻokela ma Carmen (Deutsche Grammophon, alakaʻi ʻia e Levine), Samesona lāua ʻo Delilah (Philips, alakaʻi ʻia e Davies), kekahi o nā mele maikaʻi loa o ka opera The Italian Girl in Algiers (Isabella, alakaʻi ʻia e Abbado, Deutsche Grammophon ), ka hapa o Romeo ma "Capulets and Montagues" (conductor Muti, EMI).

E. Tsodokov, 1999