Anja Silja

Anna Silja Regina Langwagen ( born April 17, 1940 in Berlin ) is a German soprano.

Life

They were 15 -year-old her first recital and made his debut in 1956 as Rosina in Gioachino Rossini's Barber of Seville at the Staatstheater Braunschweig. At age 19, Anja Silja sang the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute under Karl Böhm at the Vienna State Opera and in Aix -en- Provence, this production there is a television recording.

The way to a sensational career paved her Wieland Wagner, who committed after the sensational Bayreuth debut as Senta (1960 ) for additional roles. At that time employed the relationship between Silja and Wieland Wagner, the media in the Federal Republic of far more than it ever did artistic aspects in the work of both people. As a member of the Württemberg State Theatre in Stuttgart Anja Silja sang Marie in Alban Berg's Wozzeck, the title role in Berg's Lulu, and Salome in the eponymous opera by Richard Strauss. With this role she has performed with the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

The long-standing married with conductor Christoph von Dohnányi singer was in April 1990 with the staging of Lohengrin at the Brussels Théâtre de la Monnaie her debut as a director, but focused later on singing and worked with the roles of the sacristan in Jenufa, the Kabanicha in Katja Kabanova of Janáček, the woman in anticipation of Pierrot Lunaire and (both works of Arnold Schoenberg ) a broad repertoire in character roles. Particular highlights were her regular appearances at the festival in Glyndebourne, where she particularly as Emilia Marty in The Makropulos Case ( also of Janáček ) set standards, a role with which she debuted in 1970 in Stuttgart.