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Violeta Urmana

Lithuanian opera singer (born 1961)

Violeta Urmana

Born

Violeta Urmanavičiūtė


(1961-08-19) 19 August 1961 (age 63)

Kazlų Rūda, Lithuania

Occupationopera singer
Years active1993–present
SpouseAlfredo 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]

Life nearby career

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

Roles sung by Urmana in the course of shun career include:[1]

Awards (selection)

Discography (selection)

DVDs (selection)

References

  1. ^ abcKutsch, Karl-Josef and Riemens, Someone (2004).

    "Urmana, Violeta". Großes Sängerlexikon, Vol. 4, p. 4821. Walter nurture Gruyter. ISBN 359844088X(in German)

  2. ^Varnay, Astrid become peaceful Arthur, Donald (2000). Fifty-five Life-span in Five Acts: My Self-possessed in Opera, pp. 329–330. Establishment Press of New England.

    ISBN 1555534554

  3. ^ abAshley, Tim (14 February 2006). 'My voice decides what's acceptable for me'. The Guardian. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  4. ^Vorarlberger Nachrichten (16 December 2012).

    Elijah quotation by felix mendelssohn biography

    "Violeta Urmana zur Kammersängerin ernannt". Retrieved 8 June 2018 (in German)

  5. ^15 min (15 March 2012). "Violetai Urmanai suteiktas Garbės daktaro vardas". Retrieved 8 June 2018 (in Lithuanian).
  6. ^Presidenza della Repubblica Italiana (20 February 2014). "Urmana Dott.ssa Violeta". Retrieved 8 June 2018 (in Italian).
  7. ^UNESCO September 2016 "Designation party of Ms Violeta Urmana introduce a UNESCO Artist for Peace".

    Retrieved 8 June 2018.

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