Cvetka Ahlin
Slovenian opera singer and mezzo-sopranist
Cvetka Ahlin (28 November 1927, in Cologne – 30 July 1985, in Hamburg) was a Slovenian opera singer and mezzo-sopranist. Since 1951, she was the main singer of the Ljubljana Opera. From 1956 she was a singer in the Hamburg national opera, where a.o. she sang second lady to the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute under Karl Böhm (recorded by Deutsche Grammophon). She sang in the works of Jules Massenet and Richard Strauss. In 1967, she sang as a contralto in Smetana's Battered Bride with the German Opera Orchestra Berlin conducted by Heinrich Hollreiser.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 19, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q5197146. VIAF identifies the subject as 58880524. The Library of Congress control number is no2008018726. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1927, 1985, 1951 and 1956.
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