Gjevang, Anne (1948– )

Norwegian contralto. She studied in Rome and Vienna and made her debut in Klagenfurt, as Baba the Turk in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress. She sang in Germany as Ulrica, Carmen, and Orpheus, and at the Bayreuth Festival from 1983, as Erda in the Ring. She appeared at the Zurich Opera from 1985, the New York Metropolitan Opera House in 1958, and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, in 1991, as Erda. Her concerts include Handel's Messiah (in Chicago, in 1984), Beethoven's Missa Solemnis (under Giulini), and Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde/The Song of the Earth. She is also admired as a recitalist.