Júlia Várady

Júlia Várady ( born Júlia Tözsér, born September 1, 1941 in Nagyvarad, Hungary, now Oradea, in Crisana / Romania ) is a German opera and concert singer and a vocal coach of Hungarian descent.

Life

At age six she received violin lessons at the Conservatory of Cluj with Emilia Popp and since 1955, at age 14, her singing training at Arta Florescu at the Conservatory in Bucharest. During this time she studied music education at the same time and took acting lessons. Her teacher did the voice for an initial Alt and left her 5 sing alto and mezzo roles before even dramatic soprano roles were added. Julia Varady finished her studies in vocal and music education by the state exam "Diploma in Art".

Júlia Várady debuted in 1962 in Cluj, received even before their state exam and became a rookie contract as a soloist for roles for operas by Mozart, Puccini, Verdi and Leoncavallo, among others involved. In Cluj, she sang over ten years dramatic soprano and mezzo- soprano roles, but also Orpheus in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice or Fiordiligi in Mozart's Così fan tutte.

1968 first foreign appearance in Parma ( Italy) in Duke Bluebeard's Castle by Béla Bartók.

Christoph von Dohnányi she took in 1970 to the Frankfurt Opera in Italy after they won a contest and gave a performance in Cologne as Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata had. They are committed in Frankfurt in a year for 7 premieres, for example, as Antonia in Les Contes d'Hoffmann or Elisabetta in Verdi's Don Carlos and other roles by Mozart and Verdi.

In 1971, she attracted the attention at the Munich Opera Festival as Vitellia in Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito on himself and was taken in the same year of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich under the contract.

In 1972, she took over in Cologne in the critically acclaimed Mozart cycle ( by Jean -Pierre Ponnelle ) under István Kertész ( later Sir John Pritchard ) Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte.

There, they enjoyed great success as Elettra in Mozart's Idomeneo, as Georgette in The jacket ( in this production, she met her future husband in 1973 Dietrich Fischer- Dieskau know ), in the role of Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana, in Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Violetta in La Traviata, La forza del destino in Leonora, as Elisabetta in Don Carlos, Aida, as Senta in The Flying Dutchman, as Eva ( Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Arabella ( Richard Strauss) and in many other roles.

In 1974, Julia Varady was a regular in Japan as part of guest performances at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Committed in 1978 at the German Opera Berlin, she could be heard as the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro, in 1982 as Aida, 1991 as Desdemona and 1992 as Elisabeth in Wagner's Tannhäuser, and since 1983 as Sieglinde ( Die Walküre ).

In addition to the main engagements in Munich and Berlin numerous international appearances were added: Royal Opera House ( Covent Garden) in 1987 as Desdemona and 1992 as Senta, Wiener Staatsoper, Edinburgh Festival as Alceste ( Gluck ), Salzburg Festival Mozart roles such as Elettra, Vitellia and Donna Elvira, La Scala in Milan ( Mozart, Elettra ). In the season 1977/78 Júlia Várady made ​​her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York as Donna Elvira, in Washington ( Mozart cycle with Ponnelle and Daniel Barenboim ), Opéra Bastille as Abigail in Nabucco and Palais Garnier (both Paris).

Julia Varady was as a concert singer with a large repertoire of equally high demand and celebrated, as they led recitals from Berlin to Paris, New York ( Carnegie Hall ) and Tokyo and many other cities.

Her repertoire includes all of Mozart and Verdi roles in their field as well as those of Strauss and Wagner. At the premiere of Aribert Reimann's opera Lear she was Cordelia.

During the period of its activity as a singer produced numerous CD recordings and radio and television recordings.

Since 2000, Júlia Várady is a visiting professor at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin and teaches at the Opera Studio of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden (both Berlin). Since October 2012 she has been a guest professor at the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe.

She was married from 1977 until his death in 2012, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.

Honors

Since 1980 she is entitled Bavarian chamber singer. In 1997 she was awarded the Bavarian Theatre Prize and in 1998 the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art. In the same year she became the first winner of the Prize of the Cultural Foundation of Dortmund.

Film

• Julia Varady - The soul sings. Klaas Rusticus, ZDF 1992
• Julia Varady - singing as Passion. Bruno Monsaingeon, Ideal Audience, arte, BR (EMI ), 1998
• Julia Varady - Le Passage du Flambeau ( Master Class ) by Bruno Monsaingeon, Ideal Audience, arte, BR, 2007