Anja Silja

25 pieces since 1999 — in 12 roles, at 8 companies, most often at Bayreuth Festival.

25 pieces
12 roles
8 companies
28 years

2 pieces as Lulu — stats above show all coverage for Anja Silja.

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No saints in two acts

The cast of Wiener Staatsoper’s first-ever performance of Lulu in 1968 reads like a Who’s Who of then-contemporary Austro-German opera: the 28-year-old Anja Silja, Martha Mödl, Waldemar Kmentt, Hans Hotter, Hilde Konetzni, Manfred Jungwirth, Heinz Zednik, and Karl Böhm presiding over a production by Otto Schenk. 

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