as Maureen Forrester and Andreas Scholl had recorded before. With Helmut Winschermann and the Deutsche Bachsolisten she also recorded Bach cantatas including Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147. In 1968 she recorded the St Matthew Passion with Wolfgang Gönnenwein, Theo Altmeyer as the Evangelist, Franz Crass, Teresa Żylis-Gara, Nicolai Gedda, Hermann Prey and Hans Sotin. In 1974, she recorded Bach's St John Passion with Karl Richter, the Stuttgarter Hymnus-Chorknaben, Dieter Ellenbeck, Walter Berry, Elly Ameling, Werner Hollweg and Hermann Prey. In 1977, she sang soprano II and alto in Rilling's first recording of Bach's Mass in B minor. She performed the alto solo in Mozart's Requiem in a recording of 1970 with Edith Mathis, Wieslaw Ochman, Karl Ridderbusch, the Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna State Opera Concert Choir, conducted by Karl Böhm. For Hungaroton she recorded the Pergolesi Stabat Mater conducted by Lamberto Gardelli in 1981. She participated in the 1975 premiere and 1993 recording of Gottfried von Einem's cantata An die Nachgeborenen, written in 1973 as a commission of the UN, both with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and the Wiener Symphoniker conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini. Teaching In 1989, Julia Hamari was appointed professor of singing at the Hochschule für Musik Stuttgart. She has conducted master classes and has been teaching at the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart and the Oregon Bach Festival since 1982. Her students have included the countertenor Patrick Van Goethem. Recordings Eugene Onegin, in the role of Olga, with Georg Solti conducting the orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with Bernd Weikl, Teresa Kubiak, Stuart Burrows, and Nicolai Ghiaurov, also used as the score to Petr Weigl's filming of the opera. References External links "Können Tränen meiner Wangen" from Bach's by Julia Hamari and Münchener Bach-Orchester, Karl Richter 1971 1942 births 20th-century Hungarian women opera singers Hungarian women academics Living people Operatic contraltos State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart alumni Hungarian mezzo-sopranos