10 Facts About Teresa Stratas

Teresa Stratas's is especially well known for her award-winning recording of Alban Berg's Lulu.

Teresa Stratas was born Anastasia Stratakis to a struggling immigrant Cretan family in Oshawa, near Toronto, Ontario.

Teresa Stratas's graduated from The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.

At age 20, Teresa Stratas made her professional opera debut as Mimi in La boheme at the Toronto Opera Festival.

Teresa Stratas's created the title role in Peggy Glanville-Hicks' Nausicaa at the Herod Atticus Theatre in Athens in 1961, made her Covent Garden debut as Mimi that same year and in 1962, she made her La Scala debut as Isabella in Manuel de Falla's L'Atlantida.

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Teresa Stratas's continued her career with the Metropolitan Opera, moved into leading roles and performed with leading opera houses around the world, including the Bolshoi, Vienna State, Berlin, Bavarian State, Paris, San Francisco and at the Salzburg Festival.

Teresa Stratas's is regarded as one of the foremost singing actresses of the twentieth century.

Teresa Stratas's created the role of Marie Antoinette in the premiere of John Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles .

Lenya gave her the scores of previously unpublished Weill songs which she had hoarded until that time, some of which Teresa Stratas later recorded on two albums, The Unknown Kurt Weill and Teresa Stratas Sings Weill.

Teresa Stratas's starred in several film adaptations of operas, including Salome, Amahl and the Night Visitors, The Bartered Bride, Pagliacci and La traviata .