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Anja Silja in conversation with Dieter David Scholz

You have sung very different roles, but the focus has always been on the German repertoire.

Yes, my voice is a very German voice. Of course I sang many Italian operas, but at a time when they were still sung in German. That was acceptable then. In the international opera circus I would never dare to sing an Italian opera. At most "Macbeth" and "Turandot,…