Teresa Stratas
Teresa Stratas ( born May 26, 1938 in Toronto, Ontario, actually Anastasia Strataki ) is a Canadian soprano of Greek origin.
Life and artistic work
She sang first in nightclubs hit before it was won by Friends for classical music. 20 -year-old she was standing in her hometown of Toronto as Mimi in Puccini's La Bohème for the first time on an opera stage. Worldwide this week brought with it the petite singer as Violetta in La Traviata Franco Zeffirelli film of 1982 ( along with Plácido Domingo ), in which she inspired both vocally and theatrically. In 1965 she sang with great success this game on the side of Fritz Wunderlich, Hermann Prey in other roles and Brigitte Fassbaender, at the Opera of Munich.
At the Salzburg Festival she was heard 1969-1980 in various roles in Cosi fan tutte and Le nozze di Figaro conducted by Seiji Ozawa, Karl Böhm, Herbert von Karajan and Gustav Kuhn.
In Kurt Weill's The Rise and Fall of the City Mahagonny, she sang the Jenny; Patrice Chéreau in Paris Lulu from 1979 in the title role ( first performance of the three-act version ) under the direction of Pierre Boulez. Two years after this spectacular performance, she canceled all appointments Opera to work in Calcutta in Mother Teresa's orphanage.
From 1986, she appeared again on the stage. First, she was seen in the musical Rags on Broadway. In 1991 she participated in the world premiere of John Corigliano's opera The Ghosts of Versailles at the Met.
Discography
- La Traviata (1965 )
- Salome (1974 )
- Lulu (1979 )
- I Pagliacci (1985 )
- The Unknown Kurt Weill (1990 )
- Stratas Sings Weill (1990 )
- The Merry Widow (1992 )