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1915–2006 German soprano Schwarzkopf made her debut at the Städtische Oper in 1938 as a flower maiden in Parsifal. She joined the Vienna State Opera, with which she appeared on the company’s visit to Covent Garden in 1947. She then joined the resident company at Covent Garden, singing many German and Italian roles. She made her Salzburg and La ...

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1915–2006, German The great soprano Olga Maria Elisabeth Friederike Schwarzkopf was perhaps one of the greatest Mozart singers of the twentieth century. Trained as a mezzo before becoming a coloratura soprano and joining Berlin’s Deutsche Oper in 1938, she was signed to an EMI recording contract by producer Walter Legge in 1946. Legge, who subsequently became her husband ...

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evildoers come to a sticky end. Recommended Recording: Don Giovanni, Philharmonia Orchestra; Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor; EMI Classics CDS 7 47260 8; Soloists: Joan Sutherland (Donna Anna), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Donna Elvira), Graziella Sciutti (Zerlina), Luigi Alva (Don Ottavio), Eberhard Wächter (Don Giovanni), Giuseppe Taddei (Leporello), Piero Cappuccilli (Masetto), Gottlob Frick (Commendatore) Personalities | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Classical Era ...

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of 150 roles. Hailed as the world’s greatest contralto, she sang Erda (Siegfried) at the Met in 1932 aged 70. Introduction | Modern Era | Opera Personalities | Elisabeth Schwarzkopf DBE | Modern Era | Opera Houses & Companies | The Birth of the Metropolitan Opera | Turn of the Century | Opera ...

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made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1968. He was a noted singer of Lieder and of the Evangelist in Bach’s Passions. Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | (Dame) Elisabeth Schwarzkopf | Contemporary | Classical ...

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b. 1959 American soprano She completed her formal study at the Juilliard School and in Europe on a Fulbright scholarship with Arleen Augér and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1991 as the Countess (Mozart’s Figaro), which, along with the Marschallin (Strauss’s Rosenkavalier) has become one of her best-known roles. She created the role of Blanche DuBois ...

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the popular arena, other opera luminaries were the subject of newsreels and popularized on the radio. Meanwhile, artists such as Maria Callas (1923–77), Herbert von Karajan and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (1915–2006) also owe their fame in part to exposure through recordings – not of stage performances, but those conceived to encapsulate a presence and artistry. Ultimately, recordings shifted ...

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success in the bel canto repertory made Callas and Sutherland the first soprano superstars on a global scale. As commanding in Austro-German repertory as they were in Italian, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf excelled in Mozart and Richard Strauss. Renata Tebaldi (1922–2004), meanwhile, was hailed by some as Callas’s vocal superior, damned by others as lacking true expressivity; Montserrat Caballé divided ...