Hungarian opera singer (1899–1977)
Piroska Anday (12 December 1899, in Budapest – 22 December 1977, in Vienna) known as Rosette Anday, was a leading Hungarian mezzo-soprano.[1][2]
- ^ Christa Ludwig - In My Own Voice: Memoirs - 1999 Page 37 0879102810
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It was then that I first realized what it was like to sing in a huge, grand opera house, and I truly felt that singing in such a place was a great honor. I was overwhelmed with reverence and pride. Here I was, permitted to sing in the same place as the most celebrated singers of the past, singers whom my parents had always spoken of with the utmost admiration: Maria Jeritza, Rosette Anday, Lotte Lehmann, Leo Slezak, Alfred Piccaver, and many, many others.
- ^ Susana Salgado -The Teatro Solís: 150 Years of Opera, Concert and Ballet in Montevideo 2003
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... mobile," a rare occurrence on our stage.5 The great success of the 1929 Italian season was a Carmen sung by Rosette Anday, a Hungarian mezzo-soprano now nearly forgotten. But on this occasion she was one of the best Carmens we have seen or heard on the Solis stage, with a very different point of view from Besanzoni's characterization. . . . Not too dramatic or excessively warm, not too elegant like many French Carmens we remember, Anday is an artist of exceptional quality, ...