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Agnes Baltsa (A??? Mp??tsa) (born 19 November 1944) is a leading Greeks|Greek mezzo-soprano .
Baltsa was born in Lefkada . She began playing piano at the age of six, before moving to Athens in 1958 to concentrate on singing. She graduated from the National Conservatoire (Greece)|Greek National Conservatoire in 1965 and then travelled to Munich to continue studying under a Maria Callas scholarship.
Baltsa made her first appearance in an opera in 1968 as Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro at Frankfurt Opera, before going on to appear as Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier at the Vienna State Opera in 1970. Under the guidance of Herbert von Karajan , she soon became a regular at the prestigious Salzburg Festival . She became Kammersängerin of the Vienna State Opera in 1980.
Her most well known performance is that of Carmen by Georges Bizet , which she has sung a number of times with José Carreras . She has also sung works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart (notably Così fan tutte ), Gioacchino Rossini|Rossini ( The Barber of Seville|Il Barbiere di Siviglia , La Cenerentola , '' L'italiana in Algeri ), Pietro Mascagni|Mascagni ( Cavalleria Rusticana ), Camille Saint-Saëns|Saint-Saëns ( Samson et Dalila ), Giuseppe Verdi|Verdi ( Aida , La forza del destino , Il trovatore , Don Carlos ), Vincenzo Bellini|Bellini ( I Capuleti e i Montecchi ) and Gaetano Donizetti|Donizetti ( Il Campanello , Maria Stuarda ).
She also starred in the Germany|German film Duett in 1992, playing an opera singer.
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Persondata | NAME = Baltsa, Agnes | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Mp??tsa, A??? | SHORT DESCRIPTION = Greek actor and singer | DATE OF BIRTH = November 19, 1944 | PLACE OF BIRTH = Lefkada | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH =
