Elisabeth Rethberg News
German American opera singer (1894-1976)
Commemorations 2024 (Birth: Elisabeth Rethberg)
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- opera singer
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2023-11-03 10:00:56
On this night in 1924 Tullio Serafin made his Met debut conducting Elisabeth Rethberg and Giovanni Martinelli in Aida.
2021-10-04 06:43:32
'The more light-heartedly you can handle this, the better it would be' - Strauss, Hofmannsthal and Die ägyptische Helena
[…] lasting ninety minutes, and the performance of play plus opera occupied over six hours. This led to the creation of a new version with just prologue and opera, and this premiered in 1916. As we have seen, Die Frau ohne Schatten (1919) developed from a simple fairy tale into one of Strauss' most complex and colourful scores! The Die ägyptische Helena was premiered by Dresden State Opera at the Semperoper in Jun 1928 with Elisabeth Rethberg as Helena. Strauss' first choice for the role was Maria Jeritza (who created the role of Ariadne in Ariadne auf Naxos and the Empress in Die Frau ohne Schatten), but the opera house had famously refused to pay Jeritza's high fee. In the event, Rethberg got fine reviews and Jeritza sang the role of Helena in Vienna and New York. Fritz Busch was the conductor at the premiere, and in his autobiography Pages […]
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2021-05-10 14:52:23
"Ezio Pinza; Bidu Sayao; Elisabeth Rethberg; Risë Stevens; LE NOZZE DI FIGARO; W. A. Mozart"
2020-09-22 12:00:41
Born on this day in 1894 soprano Elisabeth Rethberg.
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