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In 1996 she took leading roles in "Nozze di Figaro" (with Harnoncourt, recorded for ZDF German TV) and "Il Matrimonio segreto" (Carolina). She made her debut at the Salzburg Festival in the inaugural concert, performing in Händel’s oratorio Jephtra, and sang Adele in Die Fledermaus at the end of the year. That year she made her debut in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw with Ton Koopman. She sang her first Don Pasquale (with Ruggero Raimondi, who was also singing his first performance in the role), and her first "Cosi fan tutte", "Il Mondo della luna" and "Der Schauspieldirektor" (on a tour with Harnoncourt), "Alcina" (Morgana) in the Theatre an der Wien in Vienna during the Wiener Festwochen, a recital of Spanish songs in the Lausanne Opera and an opera gala in Hamburg with Agnes Baltsa and José Carreras. She started 1998 with her debut in the Teatro Real de Madrid singing "Susanna" (with such success that she was given contracts for the next five years). A few weeks later she made her debut in the same opera in the Vienna Staatsoper, with identical success. |
