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Astrid Varnay

I ka makahiki 1937 ua hoʻomaka ʻo ia e hoʻokani ma lalo o ka pseudonym Melanie ma ka Brooklyn Academy of Music. I ka makahiki 1941, ho'omaka 'o ia i kāna hana mua ma ka Metropolitan Opera (Sieglinde in The Valkyrie), ma kahi o L. Lehman i ma'i. Ua hana ʻo ia ma ʻaneʻi a hiki i ka makahiki 1956. Mai ka makahiki 1948 i hana ʻo ia ma ʻEulopa (Covent Garden a me nā mea ʻē aʻe). I ka makahiki 1951, ua lanakila nui ka mea mele ma ke kuleana o Lady Macbeth (Florence). Mai ka makahiki 1951, hīmeni mau ʻo ia ma ka Bayreuth Festival (Brünnhilde in Der Ring des Nibelungen, Isolde, Kundry in Parsifal, a me nā mea ʻē aʻe). I ka makahiki 1959, ua komo ʻo ia i ka hoʻomaka mua o ka honua o Orff's Oedipus Rex ma Stuttgart (Jocasta).

Ua lōʻihi kāna ʻoihana. I ka makahiki 1995, ua lanakila ka mea mele i ka hapa o Emma ma Khovanshchina ma Munich. Aia ma waena o nā hui ʻo Leonora ma Il trovatore, Santuzza ma Rural Honor, Salome, Electra a me nā mea ʻē aʻe. Mea kākau o memoir (1996). Hoʻopaʻa ʻia ʻo Senta ma Wagner's The Flying Dutchman (conductor Knappertsbusch, Music & Arts), Mother Goose in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress (conductor Chaii, Decca).

E. Tsoodokov