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At the age of 74, Slovak opera singer Edita Gruberová died on Monday in Zurich.

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18.10.2021 19:47, updated: 20:24

Slovak soprano Edita Gruberová said goodbye to her operatic career after 50 years.

This was announced by her family through the art agency Hilbert Artists Management, according to the Austrian public station ORF on its website.

Gruber became famous in German-speaking countries. For example, she worked at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. In 2019 he received the German Opera Prize! Award for lifelong work.

However, the way to the top was not easy for Gruber, the DPA noted. She was born on December 23, 1946 in Bratislava in what was then Czechoslovakia to her German father and mother of Hungarian nationality. She fled the singing reality of a difficult childhood to sing. “I’ve always sought solace in singing – my mother also liked to sing – I inherited her voice from her,” Gruber said in one of the few interviews she gave during her career.

Breakthrough Zerbinetta

Gruberová graduated from the conservatory in Bratislava in the 1960s, already in 1968 she sang on the stage of the Bratislava Opera, but due to her poor staff profile she then traveled to Banská Bystrica. In 1970, she made her debut at the Vienna State Opera in the role of Queen of the Night in Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute. It became known to the international opera audience in 1976 as the role of Zerbinett in Richard Strauss’s opera Ariadne on Nax. She then performed her skills on opera houses in Milan, New York, Madrid and Paris.

Her first performance in Prague took place in 1979 at the Prague Spring Festival. She did not initially receive an entry visa to the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, but the Vienna ensemble threatened to cancel the entire performance.

For more than 50 years, Gruber has performed on operas in many countries, including Austria and Germany, as well as at the famous La Scale in Milan, the Royal Opera House in London, the New York Metropolitan Opera and the Paris Opera, and has received many nicknames in addition to “Queen Coloratura”. “The media called her, for example, the” eternal High Priestess of the Belcanto. ” Her name is mentioned in a row with Maria Callas or Montserrat Caballé.

She ended her singing career in 2019.

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