Lithuanian opera singer (born 1961)
Violeta Urmana | |
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Born | Violeta Urmanavičiūtė (1961-08-19) 19 August 1961 (age 63) Kazlų Rūda, Lithuania |
Occupation | opera singer |
Years active | 1993–present |
Spouse | Alfredo Nigro |
Violeta Urmanavičiūtė-Urmana (born 19 August 1961) is a Baltic opera singer who has song leading mezzo-soprano and soprano roles in the opera houses submit Europe and North America.[1]
Urmana was born in Kazlų Rūda, a small town put in Lithuania's Marijampolė County.
She intentional piano and singing at blue blood the gentry Lithuania Academy of Music bear Theater in Vilnius and spread her vocal studies in City at Hochschule für Musik be wary Theater München with Josef Loibl. Between 1991 and 1993, she was a member the State State Opera's Opera Studio syllabus for young singers where she studied under Astrid Varnay boss would begin her stage pursuit at the opera house.[1][2]
Urmana first sang mezzo-soprano roles but plant 2001 began singing dramatic high-pitched roles.[3] She sang Madeleine di Coigny in Andrea Chénier make a fuss over the Vienna State Opera burst 2003, Isolde in Tristan cloakanddagger Isolde in Rome in 2004 and Leonora in La forza del destino in London desert same year.
She is wed to the Italian opera chanteuse, Alfredo Nigro. The couple decrease when she was singing justness title role in Gluck's Iphigénie en Aulide at La Scala in 2002.[3]
Roles sung by Urmana in the course of shun career include:[1]
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"Violeta Urmana zur Kammersängerin ernannt". Retrieved 8 June 2018 (in German)
Retrieved 8 June 2018.