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"I have had three genuine Traviata experiences: Callas, Stratas and this ..." the words of Franco Zeffirelli describing the debut of Victoria Loukianetz at the Met. Victoria Loukianetz first attracted international recognition for her debut performance of Violetta in the new production of "La Traviata" conducted by Riccardo Muti at the Salzburg Music Festival. Since then she is known as the leading "Violetta", as well as a first Belcanto Soprano. She is a regular guest at the main opera-houses and international festivals, such as: Metropolitan Opera New York, Scala di Milano, Covent Garden London, Opéra Bastille Paris, Salzburger Festspiele, Tokio, Bayerische Staatsoper München, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Aaltotheater Essen, Grand Théâtre de Genève, New Israeli Opera, Triest, sowie Opéra Royal de Wallonie Liège. Most successful were her last appearences in the Mozart-Cantata under Mo. N. Harnoncourt in the Vienna Musikverein, as Rosaura in Wolf-Ferrari's "La vedova scaltra" in the Opera of Nice, as Bèrthe in Meyerbeer's "Le Prophète" and as Violetta in "La Traviata" in Buenos Aires. Further commitments include Elettra in Mozart's "Idomeneo" at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Marie in Zimmermann's "Die Soldaten" at the New National Theatre Tokyo. Victoria Loukianetz is documented on several CDs (Mozart's "C-Moll-Mass" and Haydns "Nelson Mass", Myslivecek's "Abramo ed Isacco", Russian Arias) and on DVD ("L'Elisir d'amore" in Tokyo). |