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Agnes Baltsa

Wenza i-debut yakhe ngo-1968 (iFrankfurt, ingxenye yeCherubino). Ucule kuVienna Opera kusukela ngo-1970, ngo-1974 wacula ingxenye kaDorabella ethi “Everybody Do It So” esiteji seLa Scala. Kusukela ngo-1976 e-Covent Garden, wenza uhambo olukhulu e-USA noKarajan ngawo lowo nyaka. Ucule izikhathi eziningi kwiSalzburg Festival (1977, ingxenye ye-Eboli ku-opera ethi Don Carlos; 1983, ingxenye ka-Octavian kuThe Rosenkavalier; 1985, ingxenye kaCarmen). Ngo-1979 wenza i-debut yakhe kuMetropolitan Opera njengo-Octavian. Impumelelo enkulu yahambisana noBalts ngo-1985 eLa Scala (iRomeo eCapulets naseMontagues eBellini). Ngo-1996, wacula indima yesihloko ku-Fedora kaGiordano eVienna Opera. I-repertoire yomculi ihlukahlukene. Phakathi kwezindima zika-Isabella ku-Rossini's Italian Girl e-Algiers, uRosina, uDelila, u-Orpheus ku-Gluck's Orpheus no-Eurydice, u-Olga nabanye.

Ukucula kweBalts kuhlukaniswa ngesimo esikhethekile nenkulumo. Wenze ukuqoshwa okuningi. Phakathi kwazo kukhona izindima zesihloko kuCarmen (Deutsche Grammophon, eqhutshwa nguLevine), uSamsoni noDelila (uPhilips, oqhutshwa uDavies), enye yezinguqulo ezinhle kakhulu ze-opera Intombazane yase-Italy e-Algiers (Isabella, eqhutshwa ngu-Abbado, Deutsche Grammophon ), ingxenye ye-Romeo ku-"Capulets and Montagues" (umqhubi uMuti, EMI).

E. Tsodokov, 1999