Júlia Várady

Júlia Várady (Hungarian: Várady Júlia; born 1 September 1941) is a Hungarian-born German soprano who started out as a mezzo-soprano.

Life and career

Júlia Várady was born Tőzsér Júlia in Nagyvárad, Hungary (today

She made her debut, as a

Here are most of the roles Julia Varady sang and played in staged opera performances. Roles she sang in the studio (such as the Empress in Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten) or in concert (such as Leonore in Beethoven's Fidelio, and Fidelia in Giacomo Puccini's Edgar) are not included.

Recordings

• Julia Varady: Song of Passion – DVD (documentary and recordings of live performances) EMI Classics
• Bartok: Bluebird's Castle, with Dietriech Fisher-Dieskau and Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor - CD, 1979. Deutsche Grammophon
• Richard Strauss: Arias from Salome, Ariadne, Danae, Capriccio – CD. Bamberg Symphony, Fischer-Dieskau, conductor, Orfeo
• Giacomo Puccini: Arias from Madama Butterfly, Tosca, La bohème, La rondine, Gianni Schicchi, Manon Lescaut, Turandot, Suor Angelica – CD, 1995. Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marcello Viotti, conductor, Orfeo
• Pjotr Tchaikowsky: Arias from Eugene Onegin, The Maid of Orleans, Mazeppa, The Sorceress (The Enchantress), The Queen of Spades, Iolanta – CD, 2000. Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Roman Kofman, conductor, Orfeo
• Richard Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder and arias from Tristan und Isolde, Götterdämmerung – CD, 1997. Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Fischer-Dieskau, conductor, Orfeo
• Verdi Heroines: Arias from Nabucco, II Trovatore, La Traviata, Un Ballo In Maschera, La Forza Del Destino – CD, 1995. Munich Bavarian State Orchestra, Fischer-Dieskau, conductor, Orfeo
• J.S. Bach: Coffee Cantata, Peasant Cantata – CD, London 11/1981, Julia Varady (Soprano), et al., with Academy of St. Martin-In-The-Fields, Phillips Digital Classics
• Mozart/Strauss Lieder – CD, Berlin, 1991, with Elena Bashkirova, piano, Orfeo
• Mozart: Don Giovanni, 1987, Karajan, Vienna Philharmonic, DVD, Telemondial/Sony.
• Cecilio in Mozart's Lucio Silla - Leopold Hager conducting the Mozarteumarchester Salzburg, 1975, Deutsche Grammophon
• Giacomo Meyerbeer: Gli amori di Teolinda – CD, Berlin, 1983, RIAS Kammerchor, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester-Berlin, Jörg Fadle Klarinette and Gerd Albrecht conductor, Orfeo

Sources

• Warrack, J.
  (eds.), "Varady Julia", The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera, 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press, 1979. p. 519

External links

• Julia Varady section of Julia Varady und Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau website, in German and English
• Short biography of Julia Varady, with some differences from the above