Gladys Kuchta (16 June 1915 - 7 October 1998) was an American 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 ...
who sang leading roles in opera houses worldwide including the
Vienna State Opera,
Royal Opera House,
Bayreuth Festival
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,
San Francisco Opera, and the
Teatro Colón.
Repertoire
*Isolde ''Tristan und Isolde''
*Elektra, ''Chrysothemis Elektra''
*Amelia ''Un Ballo in Maschera''
*Brünnhilde ''Siegfried''
*Turandot ''Turandot''
*Leonore ''Fidelio''
*Aida ''Aida''
*Sieglinde, ''Brünnhilde Die Walküre''
*Brünnhilde ''Götterdämmerung''
*Lady ''Macbeth in Macbeth''
*Abigaille ''Nabucco''
*Elsa ''Lohengrin''
*Färberin ''Die Frau ohne Schatten''
*Giulietta ''Les Contes de Hoffmann
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*Senta ''Der Fliegende Holländer''
*Ursula ''Mathis der Maler''
*Elettra ''Idomeneo''
*Marie ''Wozzeck''
References
1915 births
1998 deaths
American operatic sopranos
20th-century American women opera singers
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