Anja Silja, German soprano, born April 17, 1940 in Berlin. This article is about singers. ... April 17 is the 107th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (108th in leap years). ... 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...  Berlin? (pronounced: , German ) is the capital of Germany and its largest city, with 3,426,000 inhabitants (as of January 2005); down from 4. ...

Anja Silja began her operatic career at a very early age. She sang Rosina in Rossini's Barbiere di Siviglia at the Berlin Städtische Oper in 1956. Her worlwide career took up when she sang the Queen of the Night in Mozart's Magic Flute at the 1959 Aix-en-Provence Festival. She had an affair with Wieland Wagner, who left his family for her and made her one of his New Bayreuth stalwarts from 1960 to Wieland's death in 1966. By then, she was already romantically involved with French conductor André Cluytens, himself a married man to whom she had been introduced by Wieland. Cluytens died in 1967 and Silja vowed never to sing the music of Richard Wagner again as she felt it impossible with any other conductor. She subsequently married Austrian conductor Christoph von Dohnányi. Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (February 29, 1792 — November 13, 1868) was an Italian musical composer who wrote more than 30 operas as well as sacred music and chamber music. ... 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) was one of the most significant and influential of all composers of Western classical music. ... 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Aix (prounounced eks), or, to distinguish it from other cities built over hot springs, Aix-en-Provence is a city in southern France, some 30 km north of Marseille. ... The annual Bayreuth Festival in Bayreuth, Germany attracts visitors from all over the world. ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... 1967 - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ... Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner (May 22, 1813 – February 13, 1883) was an influential German composer, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his groundbreaking symphonic-operas (or music dramas). His compositions are notable for their continuous contrapuntal texture, rich harmonies and orchestration, and elaborate use of leitmotifs: themes associated...

Among her many roles are Salome and Herodias in Strauss's Salome, Elektra in his Elektra, Isolde in Richard Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, Senta in his Flying Dutchman, Elisabeth and Venus in his Tannhäuser, Elsa and Ortrud in his Lohengrin, Freia and Brünnhilde in his Nibelung's Ring, Mère Marie in Francis Poulenc's Dialogues des carmélites, Marie in Alban Berg's Wozzeck, Lulu and Gräfin Geschwitz in his Lulu, Kostelnička in Leoš Janáček's Jenůfa, Emilia Marty in his Věc Makropulos, Fiordiligi in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, Desdemona in Verdi's Otello, Prince Orlovsky in Johann Strauss II's Die Fledermaus, Anna Glawari in Franz Leh�r's The Merry Widow, etc. Richard Strauss (June 11, 1864 – September 8, 1949) was a German composer of the late Romantic era, particularly noted for his tone poems and operas. ... Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner (May 22, 1813 – February 13, 1883) was an influential German composer, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his groundbreaking symphonic-operas (or music dramas). His compositions are notable for their continuous contrapuntal texture, rich harmonies and orchestration, and elaborate use of leitmotifs: themes associated... Tristan und Isolde is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. ... The Flying Dutchman (original German title: Der fliegende Holländer) is an opera originaly written to be performed in one continious act, but, is most often performed in three acts, by Richard Wagner. ... Lohengrin is a romantic opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. ... Der Ring des Nibelungen or, in the translated English, The Ring of the Nibelung, is a series of four epic operas. ... Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (January 7, 1899 - January 30, 1963) was a French composer. ... Alban Maria Johannes Berg (February 9, 1885 – December 24, 1935) was an Austrian composer. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) was one of the most significant and influential of all composers of Western classical music. ... Giuseppe Verdi, by Giovanni Boldini, 1886 (National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome) Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (October 10, 1813 – January 27, 1901) was one of the great composers of Italian opera. ... Johann Strauss II The Waltz King coming to life in the Stadtpark, Vienna Johann Strauss II (or Johann Strauss the Younger, or Johann Strauss Jr. ... Scene from the 1984 version. ... The Merry Widow is a musical comedy or operetta of 1905, by the Austro-Hungarian composer, Franz Lehár. ...