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Ua hānau ʻia ʻo Violeta Urmana ma Lithuania. I ka wā mua, hana ʻo ia ma ke ʻano he mezzo-soprano a loaʻa iā ia ka kaulana ma ka honua holoʻokoʻa ma ke mele ʻana i nā kuleana o Kundry ma Wagner's Parsifal a me Eboli ma Verdi's Don Carlos. Ua hana ʻo ia i kēia mau hana ma kahi kokoke i nā hale opera nui o ka honua ma lalo o ke alakaʻi ʻana o nā alakaʻi e like me Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Bertrand de Billy, Pierre Boulez, Riccardo Chailly, James Conlon, James Levine, Fabio Luisi, Zubin Meta, Simon Rattle, Donald Runnicles, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Christian Thielemann a me Franz Welser-Möst.

Ma hope o kāna hana mua ma ka Bayreuth Festival ʻo Sieglinde (The Valkyrie), ua hoʻomaka ʻo Violeta Urmana i kāna hana mua ma ke ʻano he soprano i ka wehe ʻana o ke kau ma La Scala, e hīmeni ana i ka ʻāpana o Iphigenia (Iphigenia en Aulis, alakaʻi ʻia e Riccardo Muti).

Ma hope o kēlā, hoʻokani ka mea mele me ka lanakila nui ma Vienna (Madeleine ma André Chénier na Giordano), Seville (Lady Macbeth ma Macbeth), Roma (Isolde i ka hana ʻaha mele a Tristan a me Isolde), Lākana (ke kuleana nui ma La Gioconda) ʻO Ponchielli lāua ʻo Leonora ma The Force of Destiny), ʻo Florence a me Los Angeles (ke kuleana poʻo inoa ma Tosca), a me ka New York Metropolitan Opera (Ariadne auf Naxos) a me ka Hale Hōʻikeʻike ʻo Vienna (Valli).

Eia kekahi, ʻo nā hana kūikawā a ka mea mele e like me Aida (Aida, La Scala), Norma (Norma, Dresden), Elizabeth (Don Carlos, Turin) a me Amelia (Un ballo in maschera, Florence ). Ma 2008, ua komo ʻo ia i ka mana piha o "Tristan und Isolde" ma Tokyo a me Kobe a hīmeni i ke poʻo inoa ma "Iphigenia in Taurida" ma Valencia.

He papa mele ʻaha mele nui ʻo Violeta Urmana, me nā hana a nā mea haku mele he nui, mai Bach a Berg, a hoʻokani ma nā kikowaena mele nui a pau ma ʻEulopa, Iapana a me ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa.

Aia ka discography a ka mea mele i nā leo o ka operas Gioconda (ke alakaʻi, alakaʻi - Marcello Viotti), Il trovatore (Azucena, alakaʻi - Riccardo Muti), Oberto, Comte di San Bonifacio (Marten, alakaʻi - Neville Marriner), ʻO ka make ʻana o Cleopatra " (conductor – Bertrand de Billy) a me “The Nightingale” (conductor – James Conlon), a me nā hoʻopaʻa ʻana o Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (conductor – Claudio Abbado), nā mele a Zemlinsky i nā huaʻōlelo a Maeterlinck, Mahler's Second Symphony (conductor – Kazushi Ono ), nā mele a Mahler i nā huaʻōlelo a Ruckert a me kāna "Songs of the Earth" (conductor – Pierre Boulez), nā ʻāpana o nā operas "Tristan and Isolde" a me "Death of the Gods" (conductor - Antonio Pappano).

Eia kekahi, ua hoʻokani ʻo Violeta Urmana i ke kuleana o Kundry ma ke kiʻi ʻoniʻoni a Tony Palmer In Search of the Holy Grail.

I ka makahiki 2002, ua loaʻa i ka mea mele ka makana hanohano Royal Philharmonic Society ma Lākana, a ma 2009 ua loaʻa iā Violeta Urmana ka inoa hanohano o "Kammersängerin" ma Vienna.

Source: punaewele o St. Petersburg Philharmonic