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Catarina Ligendza (born 18 October 1937) is a Swedish soprano opera singer. Originally Katarina Beyron, she was born in Stockholm, the daughter of the soprano and the tenor . She studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, then from 1959 to 1963, at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg, and finally with Josef Greindl at the Hochschule für Musik Saar. In 1965 she made her debut as the Countess in Mozart's '' Le nozze di Figaro'' in Linz. Afterwards she sang in Braunschweig and Saarbrücken and then at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 1969, engagements followed in Stuttgart and Hamburg and in 1971 she took the role of Leonore in ''Fidelio'' at the Metropolitan Opera, New York.〔(Ligendza, Caterina (Soprano) ) on the Metropolitan Opera Database. Accessed 31 March 2009.〕 As a dramatic soprano, she was prominent in the Wagner repertoire and appeared at the Bayreuth Festival from 1971-1977 and in 1987 as Brünnhilde and Isolde. Probably the best known of her recordings is the ''Meistersinger'' production of 1976 for Deutsche Grammophon, conducted by Eugen Jochum, in which she sings the role of Eva. She also sang at La Scala, the Royal Opera House in London, in Munich and Vienna. She retired in 1988. ==References== Much of the information in this article is taken from «Catarina Ligendza» in the German Wikipedia. The source texts listed below are from the original article: *''Lexikon der Interpreten klassischer Musik im 20. Jahrhundert'', Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1992, ISBN 3-7618-3291-5 *Jens Malte Fischer, ''Große Stimmen'' Suhrkamp Verlag 1995 Further reading * Liese, Kirsten, ''Wagnerian Heroines. A Century Of Great Isoldes and Brünnhildes'', English translation: Charles Scribner, Edition Karo, Berlin, 2013. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Catarina Ligendza」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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