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Born in Lithuania, Violeta Urmana is one of the most highly sought-after singers of dramatic German and Italian repertoire.

Among her future plans are Eboli in *Don Carlo* in Vienna, Berlin and Madrid, Isolde in *Tristan und Isolde* in Vienna, Madrid, Paris and Naples, Tosca in Vienna, Santuzza in *Cavalleria rusticana* in Bejing, Amneris in *Aida* in Tokyo and New York.

At the very beginning of her career, Violeta Urmana made a name for herself worldwide as a highly acclaimed Kundry in *Parsifal* and as Eboli.

In recent years she has played such parts as Amelia in *Un Ballo in Maschera*, Elisabetta in *Don Carlo*, Leonora in *La Forza del Destino*, Lady in *Macbeth*, Odabella in *Attila*, the title roles of *Aida*, *La Gioconda*, *Medea*, *Tosca*, *Norma*, *Iphigénie en Tauride* and *Ariadne auf Naxos*, Brünnhilde in *Siegfried*, Sieglinde in *Die Walküre* and Isolde.

Violeta Urmana is a regular guest at the world’s major opera houses - the Metropolitan Opera New York, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Opéra National de Paris, Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Vienna State Opera, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London - and at the festivals of Bayreuth, Salzburg, Aix-en-Provence, Edinburgh and the BBC Proms. 

She has worked with such conductors as Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Bertrand de Billy, Pierre Boulez, Semyon Bychkov, Riccardo Chailly, James Conlon, James Levine, Jesús López Cobos, Fabio Luisi, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Sir Simon Rattle, Donald Runnicles, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Franz Welser-Möst and Christian Thielemann.

As a highly acclaimed concert and recital singer Violeta Urmana performs music by Mahler, Richard Strauss, Schoenberg, Berlioz, Wagner and Verdi in the most famous concert halls of Europe, the United States of America and Japan.

Many CD and DVD recordings document her career: *La Gioconda, Il Trovatore, Oberto, Un Ballo in Maschera, Aida, La Forza del Destino, Macbeth, Don Carlo, Andrea Chenier, Parsifal, Cavalleria Rusticana*, Verdi’s *Requiem*, Mahler’s *Das Lied von der Erde* and *Rückert-Lieder*, Zemlinsky’s *Maeterlinck-Lieder*, Berlioz’ *La mort de Cléopâtre*, Bartok’s *Duke Bluebeard’s Castle*, Stravinsky’s *Rossignol*, songs by R. Strauss, Berg, Liszt and her CD Puccini ritrovato. 

She is Kundry in Tony Palmer’s film *The Search for the Holy Grail*.

Violeta Urmana has received many awards: in London the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for singers, in Vienna the title Österreichische Kammersängerin. Her homeland of Lithuania has given her its most important award: the order, third class, "Grand Duke Gedeminas of Lithuania". The Lithuanian University for Music and Theatre in Vilnius has recently awarded her an honorary degree.
