Anja Silja celebrated her 85th birthday on April 18th, 2025. She had made her operatic debut 70 years earlier, as Rosina in BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA. In 1980, I saw her in a riveting performance of Alban Berg’s WOZZECK at The Met, with Jose van Dam in the title-role and James Levine on the podium. The production was issued on DVD and is very much worth watching…if you can find it.
Read Bruce Duffie’s 1996 interview with the German diva here.
Oberon's Glade 
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