Anna Tomowa-Sintow

Anna Tomowa-Sintow has earned the status among the leading operatic sopranos from your latter quarter from the twentieth hundred years. While she’s largely been connected with Italian repertory — specially the operas of Verdi and Puccini — she’s also accomplished great achievement in the functions of Mozart and Richard Strauss. Given birth to in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, on Sept 22, 1941, Tomowa-Sintow was drawn to the piano, acquiring her 1st lessons at six years. She also sometimes sang in operas as a kid and later signed up for the Sofia Conservatory to review voice. Her educators there included Gyorgy Zlatev-Tscherkin and Katja Spiridonowa. She produced her debut in the Leipzig Opera in 1967 performing Abigalle in Verdi’s Nabucco. Tomowa-Sintow analyzed using the opera company’s movie director, Paul Schmitz, in the ensuing years, and he helped her mainly in the Italian repertory. She became a member of the Berlin Staatsoper in 1972, where along with acquiring Italian functions, she sang Mozart (Così lover tutte, Le nozze di Figaro) and Strauss (Der Rosenkavalier, Ariadne auf Naxos). She debuted in Paris in the Verdi Requiem in 1973, after that in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA the following 12 months as Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. She’d make her debut at both other main American opera homes — the Met (1978) as well as the Chicago Lyric Opera (1980) — in the same part. Her other main debuts included Covent Backyard in 1975 performing Fiordiligi from Così, as well as the Vienna Condition Opera in 1977, once again in performing Mozart’s Countess Almaviva from Le nozze. In the almost two-decade amount of 1973-1991, she produced numerous looks at Salzburg (and somewhere else) with conductor Herbert von Karajan, who regarded as her among the best possible sopranos ever. She also produced several recordings during this time period with Karajan and sang with various other main conductors, including Böhm, Prêtre, Haitink, Carlos Kleiber, and Maazel. She sang Tosca on the Met in 1993 to important acclaim and attained similar success on her behalf Norma in Zurich in 1995 (her debut in the function), as well as for the Marschallin in 2000 at Covent Backyard, in all situations demonstrating the almost ageless quality of her tone of voice. In 2002 she released an effective concert tour, with halts at Barcelona and London. She carried out grasp classes in 2004 in the Hamburg Opera and continues to be fairly energetic on the concert stage in the brand new hundred years.