Violeta Urmana

Violeta Mana (* 1961 in Jure at Kazlų Rūda, district Marijampolė ) is a Lithuanian opera singer in the vocal range mezzo-soprano and dramatic soprano.

Life and artistic work

Violeta Mana studied piano at the Conservatory in Vilnius. A year before her graduation as a pianist, she began vocal studies, she continued at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich Astrid Varnay. From 1991 to 1993 she was a member of the Opera Studio of the Bavarian State Opera, where she was asked to sing smaller role soon.

The artist has received numerous awards in international singing competitions. Was quickly followed by offers of the major international opera houses. The acquisition of the lot of the Madeleine di Coigny in the opera Andrea Chénier at the Vienna State Opera in June 2003 marked her change of subject from mezzo-soprano to dramatic soprano, she March 2004 in Rome as Isolde ( Tristan and Isolde ) and the fall of 2004 as Leonora (La Forza del Destino ) took place in London.

Violeta Mana works (s) with known conductors such as, for example,

Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Bertrand de Billy, Pierre Boulez, Semyon Bychkov, Riccardo Chailly, James Conlon, Daniele Gatti, Valery Gergiev, James Levine, Jesús López Cobos, Fabio Luisi, Lorin Maazel, Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Sir Simon Rattle, Donald Runnicles, Esa -Pekka Salonen, Franz Welser- Möst, Christian Thielemann.

Belong to the song repertoire of Mana et al Compositions by Gustav Mahler, Bela Bartok, Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard Strauss, Franz Liszt, Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg and Alexander von Zemlinsky.

The soprano in with the tenor Alfredo Nigro married.

Roles (selection)

  • Medea in Medea ( Cherubini )
  • Tove in Gurrelieder
  • Aida / Amneris in Aida
  • Azucena in Il Trovatore
  • Amelia in A Masked Ball
  • Ariadne in Ariadne auf Naxos
  • Elisabetta / Eboli in Don Carlos
  • Isolde in Tristan und Isolde, from around 2015: Brangäne in Tristan and Isolde
  • Judith in Bluebeard's Castle
  • Ortrud in Lohengrin
  • Kundry in Parsifal
  • Lady Macbeth in Macbeth
  • Norma / Adalgisa in Norma
  • Sieglinde, Fricka, Brünnhilde in Die Walküre
  • Tosca in Tosca
  • Wally in La Wally
  • La Gioconda La Gioconda in
  • Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana
  • Venus in Tannhäuser
  • Walt diamond, Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung
  • Soprano / Mezzo Soprano Messa da Requiem by Verdi

Awards (selection)

  • 2001 Woman of the Year (Lithuania )
  • 2001 Singer of the Year (Lithuania )
  • 2001 National Prize for Culture ( Lithuania)
  • 2002 Premio Franco Abbiati (Italy )
  • 2002 L'Opera Award ( Italy)
  • 2002 Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award ( UK )
  • 2007 Honorary citizen of the city of her birth (Lithuania )
  • 2007 LT- Tapatype (Lithuania )
  • 2007 World Intellectual Property Organization Creativity Award
  • 2009 Austrian opera singer
  • 2012 Awarded an honorary doctorate from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre

Discography (selection)

  • The Song of the Earth, Rückert- Lieder ( Gustav Mahler ): German Grammophon
  • Best of the Vienna Philharmonic Vol VII: German Grammophon
  • Andrea Chénier: Decca
  • Messa da Requiem ( Naxos ) Profile Haenssler
  • La Gioconda: EMI
  • Oberto: Philips
  • Tristan and Isolde: EMI
  • Ritrovato (famous arias and ensembles from Puccini ): German Grammophon
  • Aida at the Metropolitan Opera, New York: Decca
  • Macbeth: Bel Air Classiques
  • Un Ballo in Maschera: Opus Arte
  • La canzone dei ricordi ( Martucci ): medici arts
  • La forza del destino: TDK
  • Aida at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan: Decca
  • Cavalleria Rusticana: Opus Arte
  • Don Carlos: Opus Arte
  • Le Rossignol: EMI
  • Parsifal: Arthaus
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