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Astrid Varnay

Ngo-1937 waqala ukucula ngaphansi kwegama mbumbulu elithi Melanie e-Brooklyn Academy of Music. Ngo-1941 waqala ukubonakala e-Metropolitan Opera (Sieglinde in The Valkyrie), engena esikhundleni sika-L. Lehman ogulayo. Wacula lapha kwaze kwaba ngu-1956. Kusukela ngo-1948 wacula e-Europe (Covent Garden nezinye). Ngo-1951, umculi waba yimpumelelo enkulu endimeni kaLady Macbeth (Florence). Kusukela ngo-1951 wacula ephindelela kuBayreuth Festival (Brünnhilde eDer Ring des Nibelungen, Isolde, Kundry eParsifal, neminye). Ngo-1959 wabamba iqhaza kumdlalo wokuqala womhlaba we-Orff's Oedipus Rex eStuttgart (Jocasta).

Umsebenzi wakhe waqhubeka isikhathi eside. Ngo-1995, umculi wenza ngempumelelo ingxenye ka-Emma eKhovanshchina eMunich. Phakathi kwamaqembu kukhona noLeonora e-Il trovatore, Santuzza in Rural Honor, Salome, Electra namanye. Umbhali wezinkumbulo (1996). Okurekhodiwe kufaka phakathi i-Senta kweka-Wagner ethi The Flying Dutchman (umqhubi u-Knappertsbusch, Umculo Nobuciko), i-Mother Goose kwekaStravinsky ethi The Rake's Progress (umqhubi u-Chaii, u-Decca).

E. Tsodokov