PLEASE WATCH SMALL SIZE. JUST LISTEN. The purple stripe is a reflection in the lens by making the video. Thanks to CAMPION Records. Inessa Galante sings ”Ah, fors e lui” and ”Sempre libera” Act 1 – La Traviata composed by Verdi More Inessa Galante: Click on Esceha57 TheLatvian soprano, Inessa (born in Riga) Galante, entered the Music Academy of Riga in 1977. She began her singing career while still a student and her unique voice was soon heard in the Riga Opera House, and then in other Eastern countries including Russia, where she became a regular singer at the Kirov Opera in St. Petersburg. She was able to visit the West on an official visit to the USA and Canada with a Latvian ensemble and it was her performance which the critics recorded with enthusiasm. Sir Yehudi Menuhin and Zubin Mehta were among those advising her to make a career in America but “in that time” as Inessa puts it “the wall between the two worlds was too high!”. Of course, that wall came down and Inessa made her debut under contract from The Mannheim Opera in Germany in 1992, as Pamina in Mozart’s Magic Flute. She then had 20 principal operatic roles in her repertoire but has since doubled that number. On a return visit to Riga in 1994 she made a recording sponsored by the Baltic Bank, amazingly her debut on record after fifteen years on the operatic stage. The resulting CD had initially a small local release but a few copies made their way to an international music fair and was eventually heard …