Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

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Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf DBE (December 9, 1915 – August 3, 2006) was a German opera singer (who later took British citizenship). She was one of the leading sopranos of the post-World War II period, much admired for her performances of Mozart, Strauss and Hugo Wolf.

She was born in Jarotschin in Prussia (now part of Poland) to Friedrich Schwarzkopf and his wife, Elisabeth Fröhling. Christened Olga Maria Elisabeth Frederike Schwarzkopf, Schwarzkopf showed an interest in music from an early age. She performed in her first opera in 1928, as Eurydice in a school production of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice in Magdeburg, Germany. In 1934, Schwarzkopf began her musical studies at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik. However at the suggestion of the baritone Karl Schmitt-Walter, she switched teachers and started working with the celebrated coloratura soprano Maria Ivogün as well as with her husband, the noted pianist Michael Raucheisen. Ivogün’s advice to her new pupil was, “Be noble, my child!”

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  • Nayaic

    Magnific ♥

    21 Oct 2011 Reply
  • Jelenino

    @BramBr read a tiny bit of an objective Schartzkopf-bio, listen to persons who used to work with her and/or had to be her student/s. Check out the best and most advanced classical music forum webwide: www.tamino-klassikforum.at - if you can read it; you will get an idea... jelenino

    29 Mar 2010 Reply
  • BramBr

    oh, you knew her Jelenino ?

    19 Mar 2010 Reply
  • Jelenino

    ...but selfish monster to her students, colleagues and helpers.

    26 Nov 2009 Reply
  • Taxes

    What a voice...

    30 Jan 2009 Reply