Anja Silja

German soprano Anja Silja (b. 1940) in Berlin. Among her many roles are Salome and Herodias in Strauss's Salome, Elektra in his Elektra, Isolde in Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, Senta in his Flying Dutchman, Elisabeth and Venus in his Tannhäuser, Elsa and Ortrud in his Lohengrin, Freia, Sieglinde and Brünnhilde in his Ring cycle, Mère Marie and Madame de Croissy (her La Scala debut role) in Francis Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites, Marie in Alban Berg's Wozzeck, Lulu and Gräfin Geschwitz in his Lulu, Kostelnicka in Leos Janácek's Jenufa, Emilia Marty in his Vec Makropulos, Leonore in Beethoven's Fidelio (her Metropolitan Opera debut), Desdemona in Verdi's Otello, Prince Orlovsky in Johann Strauss II's Die Fledermaus and Hanna Glawari in Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow.