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

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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

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under

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(recorded by

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). She sang in the works of

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and

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. In 1967, she sang as a contralto in Smetana's Battered Bride with the German Opera Orchestra Berlin conducted by

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Notable roles

* Charlotte in the opera

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by Jules Massenet * Octavian in the opera

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by Richard Strauss

References

* Slovenski veliki leksikon, Mladinska knjiga (2003) * WRC UK 1967 1927 births 1985 deaths Slovenian opera singers 20th-century Slovenian women singers Yugoslav women opera singers Musicians from Cologne {{Slovenia-musician-stub