1. Sylvia Geszty is remembered as Mozart's Queen of the Night and an ideal Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, but performed Baroque opera and in the world premiere of Kurt Schwaen's Leonce und Lena.
13 Facts About Sylvia Geszty
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Sylvia Geszty made many recordings and appeared on radio and television and in concert and recitals.
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Sylvia Geszty won several singing competitions while still a student, including the Robert Schumann International Competition for Pianists and Singers in Berlin.
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Sylvia Geszty's roles included Susanna in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, the Queen of the Night in his Die Zauberflote, Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto and the Tsaritsa of Shemakha in Rimsky-Korsakov's Der goldene Hahn.
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Sylvia Geszty was awarded the Art Prize of the German Democratic Republic in 1966 and the title Kammersangerin in 1968.
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Sylvia Geszty appeared as a guest in Europe and the Americas, as the Queen of the Night at the Royal Opera House in London in 1966, at the Salzburg Festival in the same role from 1967, and in 1969 as Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss at both the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires and the Los Angeles Opera.
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Sylvia Geszty appeared as Zerbinetta, as Mimi in Puccini's La Boheme, staged by Gotz Friedrich, and in the title role of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, among others.
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Sylvia Geszty was a permanent guest at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and at the Vienna State Opera, where she appeared as Queen of the Night in 1967, as Rosina, Zerbinetta, Gilda and Olympia in Les contes d'Hoffmann.
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Sylvia Geszty performed at major opera houses, including Hamburg, Paris, Brussels, Moscow, Amsterdam and opera houses in Italy.
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Sylvia Geszty appeared at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1971 and 1972 as Zerbinetta and in 1972 as Konstanze in Mozart's Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail.
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Sylvia Geszty performed as a lieder and oratorio singer and in operetta.
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Sylvia Geszty's students included Melanie Diener, Annette Luig, Marlis Petersen and Anke Sieloff.
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Sylvia Geszty made many recordings, television appearances, films and radio programmes.