Amanda Louise Thane (18 December 1953 – 1 September 2012) was an Australian

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known for her interpretations of roles such as Violetta in Verdi's '' La traviata'', Liù in Puccini's ''

Turandot ''Turandot'' ( ; see #Origin and pronunciation of the name, below) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Puccini left the opera unfinished at the time of his death in 1924; it ...

'', Eva in Wagner's ''

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'',Obituary in ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 6 October 2012
/ref> and the title role in Donizetti's ''

Maria Stuarda ''Maria Stuarda'' (Mary Stuart) is a tragic opera (''tragedia lirica''), in two acts, by Gaetano Donizetti, to a libretto by Giuseppe Bardari, based on Andrea Maffei's translation of Friedrich Schiller's 1800 play '' Maria Stuart''. The opera ...

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Australian Opera performance of ''Maria Stuarda'', starring Amanda Thane as Maria Stuarda and Rodney Macann as Talbot, July 1992,

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She sang at the

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, Covent Garden, from 1991 to 2000, including leading roles in ''

Les Huguenots () is an opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer and is one of the most popular and spectacular examples of grand opera. In five acts, to a libretto by Eugène Scribe and Émile Deschamps, it premiered in Paris on 29 February 1836. Composition history '' ...

'', ''

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'' and ''

La bohème ''La bohème'' ( , ) is an opera in four acts,Puccini called the divisions '':wikt:quadro, quadri'', ''wikt:tableau, tableaux'' or "images", rather than ''atti'' (acts). composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1893 and 1895 to an Italian libretto b ...

''."Media Notes Order of Australia"
/ref> Thane was born in

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and studied singing at the

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. Her teachers included German bass-baritone

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. She married Glenn Winslade in 1978, divorced him in 1989, but reunited with him in 1995 and embarked on what ''

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'' described as "their wilderness years" in London, remarrying in 1999. In 2012 she was awarded the Medal of the

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Discography

*1990: ''Les Huguenots'' (Meyerbeer) as Valentine, with

Joan Sutherland Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, (7 November 1926 – 10 October 2010) was an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano known for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s to the 1980s. She possessed a voice ...

Clifford Grant Clifford Scantlebury Grant (11 September 1930 – 7 October 2021) was an Australian operatic bass singer. Life and career Grant was born in September 1930 in Randwick, Sydney. In 1966, he joined Sadler's Wells Opera company and on 20 December 1 ...

, John Pringle;

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conducting. VHS: Opus Arte OAF 4024D, DVD Kultur Video *1991: ''Turandot'' (Puccini) as Liù, with Ealynn Voss, Kenneth Collins, Donald Shanks; Carlo Felice Cillario conducting. VHS: Opus Arte OAF4004D, DVD: Kultur Video *1994: ''

Orphée et Eurydice (; French: '; English: ''Orpheus and Eurydice'') is an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck, based on the myth of Orpheus and set to a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi. It belongs to the genre of the '' azione teatrale'', meaning an ...

'' (Gluck) as Eurydice, with David Hobson, Miriam Gormley; Marco Guidarini conducting, choreography by

Meryl Tankard Meryl Tankard (born 1955) is an Australian dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker. She started her career at the Australian Ballet in Sydney in 1975, and was principal dancer with Pina Bausch and her Tanztheater Wuppertal in Germany between 1978 ...

. VHS: Opus Arte OAF4005D, DVD: Kultur Video

References

External links

* *: " Tu che di gel sei cinta" (1991)
Thane, Amanda – Portraits
National Library of Australia {{DEFAULTSORT:Thane, Amanda 1953 births 2012 deaths Australian operatic sopranos Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia 20th-century Australian women opera singers