Anja Silja

Anja Silja Regina Langwagen (, born 17 April 1940) is a German soprano singer. Her career began in 1960 at the Bayreuth Festival, as Senta in Der fliegende Holländer. She also sang Elsa von Brabant in Lohengrin, both Venus and Elisabeth in Tannhäuser, Eva in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Freia in Das Rheingold and Waldvogel in Siegfried. She appeared in Wieland Wagner's productions of Salome by Strauss, Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, Die Walküre and Siegfried (as Brünnhilde), Elektra by Strauss, Beethoven's Fidelio, Verdi's Otello, Alban Berg's Lulu and Wozzeck (conducted by Pierre Boulez). 

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Interview with Anja Silja by Bruce Duffie, 5 December 1996.
 Colbert Artists Management Inc.


Category:1940 births
Category:Living people
Category:Singers from Berlin
Category:Actors from Berlin
Category:German stage actors
Category:German sopranos