Amanda Louise Thane (18 December 1953 – 1 September 2012) was an Australian operatic

soprano A soprano () is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hz to "high A" (A5) = 880&n ...

known for her interpretations of roles such as Violetta in Verdi's ''

La traviata ''La traviata'' (; ''The Fallen Woman'') is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on ''La Dame aux camélias'' (1852), a play by Alexandre Dumas ''fils'' adapted from his own 18 ...

'', Liù in Puccini's '' Turandot'', Eva in Wagner's '' Die Meistersinger'',Obituary in ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 6 October 2012
/ref> and the title role in Donizetti's ''

Maria Stuarda ''Maria Stuarda'' (Mary Stuart) is a tragic opera (''tragedia lirica''), in two acts, by Gaetano Donizetti, to a libretto by Giuseppe Bardari, based on Andrea Maffei's translation of Friedrich Schiller's 1800 play '' Maria Stuart''. The opera i ...

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Australian Opera performance of ''Maria Stuarda'', starring Amanda Thane as Maria Stuarda and Rodney Macann as Talbot, July 1992, National Library of Australia She sang at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, from 1991 to 2000, including leading roles in ''

Les Huguenots () is an opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer and is one of the most popular and spectacular examples of grand opera. In five acts, to a libretto A libretto (Italian for "booklet") is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work suc ...

'', '' The Tales of Hoffmann'' and '' La bohème''."Media Notes Order of Australia"
/ref> Thane was born in Taree and studied singing at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Her teachers included German bass-baritone Hans Hotter. She married Glenn Winslade in 1978, divorced him in 1989, but reunited with him in 1995 and embarked on what '' The Sydney Morning Herald'' described as "their wilderness years" in London, remarrying in 1999. In 2012 she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia.

Discography

*1990: ''Les Huguenots'' (Meyerbeer) as Valentine, with

Joan Sutherland Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, (7 November 1926 – 10 October 2010) was an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano known for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s through to the 1980s. She possessed ...

, Clifford Grant, John Pringle;

Richard Bonynge Richard Alan Bonynge ( ) (born 29 September 1930) is an Australian conductor and pianist. He is the widower of Australian dramatic coloratura soprano Dame Joan Sutherland. Bonynge conducted virtually all of Sutherland's operatic performances ...

conducting. VHS: Opus Arte OAF 4024D, DVD Kultur Video *1991: ''Turandot'' (Puccini) as Liù, with Ealynn Voss, Kenneth Collins, Donald Shanks; Carlo Felice Cillario conducting. VHS: Opus Arte OAF4004D, DVD: Kultur Video *1994: ''

Orphée et Eurydice ' (; French: '; English: ''Orpheus and Eurydice'') is an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck, based on the myth of Orpheus and set to a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi. It belongs to the genre of the '' azione teatrale'', meaning an ...

'' (Gluck) as Eurydice, with David Hobson, Miriam Gormley; Marco Guidarini conducting, choreography by

Meryl Tankard Meryl Tankard is an Australian dancer and choreographer who has a wide national and international reputation. Early life and education Tankard's father served in the Royal Australian Air Force and the family moved to various bases during her ea ...

. VHS: Opus Arte OAF4005D, DVD: Kultur Video

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Tu che di gel sei cinta "Tu che di gel sei cinta" ("You who are girdled with ice") is a soprano aria from act 3, scene 1, of Puccini's 1926 opera ''Turandot''. It is sung by Liù under torture, prior to her suicide. The words were written by Puccini himself while waitin ...

" (1991)
Thane, Amanda – Portraits
National Library of Australia {{DEFAULTSORT:Thane, Amanda 1953 births 2012 deaths Australian operatic sopranos Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia 20th-century Australian women opera singers