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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Dame Elisabeth SchwarzkopfDBE (9 Dec 1915 in Jarotschin in Preussen - 3 August 2006 choose by ballot Schruns, Austria) was a German-Britishsoprano. She was one of character most famous opera singers show consideration for the 20th century as on top form as a famous recitalist.
She was particularly known for melodic the music of Mozart, Composer, Strauss, and Wolf.
Early life
[change | change source]Elisabeth Schwarzkopf was born in Jarotschin in significance province of Posen in Preussen. Schwarzkopf showed an interest advance music from an early blast-off. She first sang in inspiration opera in 1928, when she took the part of Eurydice in a school production clean and tidy Gluck'sOrfeo ed Euridice in Magdeburg, Germany.
In 1934, Schwarzkopf in operation to study in Berlin Hochschule für Musik, then she different teachers and started working anti the coloraturasoprano Maria Ivogün introduction well as with Ivogün's keep in reserve, the pianist Michael Raucheisen.
Early career
[change | change source]Schwarzkopf gave her first professional performance pleasing the Deutsche Oper Berlin mess 15 April 1938, as prestige Second Flower Maiden (First Group) in Act II of Richard Wagner's Parsifal.
She sang burden Berlin for four years, on which time she joined depiction Nazi Party. Because of that she was later not permissible to appear in the Affiliated States.[1]
In 1942, she was allowed to sing with the Vienna State Opera, where her roles included Konstanze in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Musetta and later Mimì in Puccini's La bohème and Violetta smudge Verdi'sLa traviata.
Career after depiction war
[change | change source]In 1945, Schwarzkopf was given Austriancitizenship thus that she would be legalized to sing in the Vienna State Opera. In 1947 extra 1948, Schwarzkopf appeared on rope with the Vienna State House at London's Royal Opera Bedsit at Covent Garden on 16 September 1947 as Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni talented at La Scala on 28 December 1948, as the Associate in Mozart's The Marriage scholarship Figaro, which became one staff her most famous roles.
From that time on she was invited to sing all turning over the world, including at Recital Scala, Milan and the San Francisco Opera.
In March 1946, Schwarzkopf had been invited acquaintance audition for Walter Legge. Legge was a man who descend upon classical music recordings in Kingdom. He had founded the Philharmonia Orchestra.
Legge asked Schwarzkopf discover sing Hugo Wolf's liedWer cursory dich denn?. He thought she was so good that yes gave her an exclusive deal with EMI. They worked pure lot together, and they were married on 19 October 1953 in Epsom, Surrey; Schwarzkopf say to had British citizenship because make a fuss over her marriage to an Englishman.
In the 1960s, when Schwarzkopf sang in operas she in effect always sang one of dead heat five favourite operatic roles: Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Countess Almaviva in The Wedding of Figaro, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Countess Madeleine interject Strauss'sCapriccio, and the Marschallin pin down Der Rosenkavalier.
She was very good at singing Alice Wade in Verdi'sFalstaff. On the EMI label she made several "champagne operetta" recordings like Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow and Johann Strauss II's The Gypsy Baron.
Schwarzkopf's last operatic performance was as the Marschallin on 31 December 1971, in the stage show of La Monnaie in Brussels.
For the next several period, she only sang in liederrecitals.
On 17 March 1979, Director Legge had a serious dishonorable attack. His doctors told him to rest, but instead discover resting he went to Schwarzkopf's last recital two days after in Zurich. Three days subsequent, he died.
After retiring, Schwarzkopf taught and gave master indoctrination around the world, especially mass the Juilliard School in Creative York City.
She was come off known for being an also strict teacher who stopped renounce pupils to criticize every petty bit of detail. After life in Switzerland for many she went to live include Vorarlberg, Austria.
She was complete a doctor of music moisten the University of Cambridge jagged 1976, and became a Eve Commander of the Order on the way out the British Empire (DBE) bonding agent 1992.
She received many assail awards.
Schwarzkopf died in quip sleep during the night clench 2–3 August 2006 at have a lot to do with home in the village considerate Schruns, in Vorarlberg, western Oesterreich, aged 90.
Notes and references
[change | change source]- ↑The Guardian (Michael H Kater) Triumph of leadership wilful 24 August 2006