Великие камерные певцы. элизабет шварцкопф

External links[]

Bach Cantatas biography
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Museum in Hohenems/Austria
BBC Obituary: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
The Guardian (Alan Blyth) Obituary: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
The Times Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (obituary)
The Daily Telegraph Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (obituary)
The Washington Post (Adam Bernstein) Renowned Coloratura Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, 90 (obituary)
The New York Times (Anthony Tommasini) Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Opera Singer, Dies at 90 (obituary) (requires registration)
The Washington Post (Tim Page) The Plaintive Last Song of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (appreciation)
Norman Lebrecht: Schwarzkopf’s Career Had Somber Side
BBC Soprano Schwarzkopf dies aged 90
BBC Diva’s ‘place in history assured’
The Guardian (Charlotte Higgins) Elisabeth Schwarzkopf dies at 90
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf on IMDb
Prewar photo of Schwarzkopf as Zerbinetta (scroll down)
Discography warnerclassics.com
Discography from sopranos.freeservers.com
Another Discography (Capon’s Lists of Opera Recordings)

Recordings[]

Recordings include the following.

Bach

St Matthew Passion (Klemperer), Philharmonia Orchestra (Warner Classics 1961)

Brahms

A German Requiem (Klemperer), Philharmonia Orchestra (Warner Classics 1961)

Humperdinck

Hänsel und Gretel (Karajan) (1953) Naxos 8.110897-98

Lehár

Das Land des Lächelns (Ackermann) (1953) and excerpts from Lehár Operettas Naxos 8.111016-17
Die lustige Witwe (Kunz, Gedda) (1953) Naxos 8.111007

Mozart

Don Giovanni (Carlo Maria Giulini, Philharmonia Orchestra) (Warner Classics 1959) with Joan Sutherland as Donna Anna.
Le nozze di Figaro (Carlo Maria Giulini, Philharmonia Orchestra) (Warner Classics 1959)
Così fan tutte (Otto, Karajan) (1954) Naxos 8.111232-34

Puccini

Turandot as Liù (Tullio Serafin, La Scala Orchestra; 1953 EMI Classics) Callas as Turandot

Johann Strauss II

Die Fledermaus (Gedda, Karajan) (1955) Naxos 8.111036-37

Richard Strauss

Four Last Songs / Arabella (highlights) (Ackermann, Matacic) (1953, 1954) Naxos 8.111145
Four Last Songs (Szell; 1965; Warner Classics «Great Recordings of the Century»; Cat: 0724356696020)
Ariadne auf Naxos (Streich, Karajan) (1954) Naxos 8.111033-34
Capriccio (Christa Ludwig, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Nicolai Gedda, Wolfgang Sawallisch) (1957) Warner Classics CDS 7 49014-8

Verdi

Messa da Requiem (Di Stefano, De Sabata) (1954) Naxos 8.111049-50

Richard Wagner

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Karajan) (1951) Naxos 8.110872-75

литература

Роджер Хауэрт, Бернар Гавоти: Элизабет Шварцкопф. Кистер, Франкфурт-на-Майне, 1957 год.
Вальтер Легге, Элизабет Шварцкопф: слышал — неслышал — мемуары. Ноак-Хюбнер, Мюнхен 1982, ISBN 3-88453-018-6 .
Алан Джефферсон: Элизабет Шварцкопф. Биография. Ланген / Мюллер, Мюнхен 1996, ISBN 3-7844-2586-0 .
Алан Сандерс: Элизабет Шварцкопф. Записанная карьера. Amadeus Press, Милуоки 1996, ISBN 0-931340-99-3 .
Майкл Х. Катер: Оскорбленная муза. Музыкант Третьего рейха. Пайпер, Мюнхен, 2000 г., ISBN 3-492-23097-0 .
Элизабет Шварцкопф — читает и слушает . Die Zeit — Klassik Edition, Volume 03, Metzler, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-476-02203-X .
Кирстен Лизе: Элизабет Шварцкопф. От цветочницы до маршала . Молден, Вена 2007, ISBN 978-3-85485-218-6 .
Стефан Хёрнер: В: Новая немецкая биография (NDB). Том 24, Duncker & Humblot, Берлин 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , стр. 28-30 ( ).
Кристиан Фастл: В: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Интернет-издание, Вена 2002 и далее, ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Печатное издание: Том 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Вена 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .

Некрологи

Notes and references[]

She and Legge were married on 19 October 1953 in Epsom, Surrey; Schwarzkopf thus acquired British citizenship by marriage.
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«Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf». The Telegraph. 4 August 2006. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/music-obituaries/1525522/Dame-Elisabeth-Schwarzkopf.html. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
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«Alan Jefferson». The Telegraph. 20 April 2010. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/7611528/Alan-Jefferson.html. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
Michael Church (23 October 2011). «BOOK REVIEW / Her Masters’ voice». The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/book-review-her-masters-voice-1319665.html. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
«Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf». The Telegraph. 4 August 2006. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/music-obituaries/1525522/Dame-Elisabeth-Schwarzkopf.html. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
«BBC Radio 4 – Desert Island Discs, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf». Bbc.co.uk. 1958-07-28. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009y865. Retrieved 2012-11-06.
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Alan Jefferson (1996). «In any case, this famous Desert Island Discs broadcast has gone down in legend, immediately identifying Schwarzkopf for many who had never previously heard of her.»
Gramophone, vol. 83 (2006). «1958 Appears on Desert Island Discs and raises eyebrows by …»
Gramophone, vol. 83 (2005), Letters. «Schwarzkopf’s Desert Island Discs Talk has come up again of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and her Desert Island Discs broadcast in 1958 with her unique choice of seven of her …»
Prima donna: a history, Rupert Christiansen (1995). «It made Schwarzkopf into a uniquely self-conscious interpreter: it was perfectly natural to her that when asked on the BBC radio programme Desert Island Discs to select eight recordings to be shipwrecked with, she should choose only her …»
«Viewing Page 7 of Issue 52767». London-gazette.co.uk. 1991-12-30. http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/52767/supplements/7. Retrieved 2012-11-06.
Matthew Boyden. The Rough Guide to Opera, 3rd Edition London: Rough Guides Ltd., 2002
«Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano)». Gramophone. http://www.gramophone.co.uk/HallofFame/ArtistPage/Schwarzkopf. Retrieved 11 April 2012.
John von Rhein (18 August 1996). «Past Imperfect». Chicago Tribune. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1996-08-18/news/9608180091_1_berlin-deutsche-oper-nazi-party-waffen-ss/2. Retrieved 1 December 2015.

Legacy[]

She left a discography that is considerable both in quality and in quantity and will be mostly remembered for her Mozart and Richard Strauss operatic portrayals, her two commercial recordings of Strauss’s Four Last Songs, and her countless recordings of lieder, especially those of Wolf.

Schwarzkopf is considered by many to be the greatest German lyric soprano of the twentieth century and one of the finest Mozart singers of all time, with an «indescribably beautiful» voice.

Schwarzkopf’s entry in The Grove Book of Opera Singers concludes: «Although she dismissed her membership as a professional necessity, her reputation has remained tarnished by what seems to have been an active party membership.»

Retirement and death[]

File:E. Schwarzkopf-Legge.jpg

Grave in Zumikon

After retiring (almost immediately after her husband’s death), Schwarzkopf taught and gave master classes around the world, notably at the Juilliard School in New York City. After living in Switzerland for many years, she took up residence in Austria. She was made a doctor of music by the University of Cambridge in 1976, and became a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1992.

Schwarzkopf died in her sleep during the night of 2–3 August 2006 at her home in Schruns, Vorarlberg, Austria, aged 90. Her ashes, and those of Walter Legge, were buried next to her parents in Zumikon near Zürich, where she had lived from 1982 to 2003.

Recordings[]

Recordings include the following.

Bach

St Matthew Passion (Klemperer), Philharmonia Orchestra (Warner Classics 1961)

Brahms

A German Requiem (Klemperer), Philharmonia Orchestra (Warner Classics 1961)

Humperdinck

Hänsel und Gretel (Karajan) (1953) Naxos 8.110897-98

Lehár

Das Land des Lächelns (Ackermann) (1953) and excerpts from Lehar Operettas Naxos 8.111016-17
Die lustige Witwe (Kunz, Gedda) (1953) Naxos 8.111007

Mozart

Don Giovanni (Carlo Maria Giulini, Philharmonia Orchestra) (Warner Classics 1959) with Joan Sutherland as Donna Anna.
Le nozze di Figaro (Carlo Maria Giulini, Philharmonia Orchestra) (Warner Classics 1959)
Così fan tutte (Otto, Karajan) (1954) Naxos 8.111232-34

Johann Strauss II

Die Fledermaus (Gedda, Karajan) (1955) Naxos 8.111036-37

Richard Strauss

Four Last Songs / Arabella (highlights) (Ackermann, Matacic) (1953, 1954) Naxos 8.111145
Four Last Songs (Szell; 1965; Warner Classics «Great Recordings of the Century»; Cat: 0724356696020)
Ariadne auf Naxos (Streich, Karajan) (1954) Naxos 8.111033-34
Capriccio (Christa Ludwig, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Nicolai Gedda, Wolfgang Sawallisch) (1957) Warner Classics CDS 7 49014-8

Verdi

Messa da Requiem (Di Stefano, De Sabata) (1954) Naxos 8.111049-50

Richard Wagner

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Karajan) (1951) Naxos 8.110872-75

External links[]

Template:Commons category

Bach Cantatas biography
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Museum in Hohenems/Austria
BBC Obituary: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
The Guardian (Alan Blyth) Obituary: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
The Times Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (obituary)
The Daily Telegraph Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (obituary)
The Washington Post (Adam Bernstein) Renowned Coloratura Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, 90 (obituary)
The New York Times (Anthony Tommasini) Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Opera Singer, Dies at 90 (obituary) (requires registration)
The Washington Post (Tim Page) The Plaintive Last Song of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (appreciation)
Norman Lebrecht: Schwarzkopf’s Career Had Somber Side
BBC Soprano Schwarzkopf dies aged 90
BBC Diva’s ‘place in history assured’
The Guardian (Charlotte Higgins) Elisabeth Schwarzkopf dies at 90
Template:IMDb name
Prewar photo of Schwarzkopf as Zerbinetta (scroll down)
Discography warnerclassics.com
Discography from sopranos.freeservers.com
Another Discography (Capon’s Lists of Opera Recordings)

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Почести (отрывок)

Элизабет Шварцкопф (Амстердам, 1961 г.)

1950: Медаль Лилли Леманн, Зальцбург
1959: 1. «Орфей д’Оро», Мантуя.
1969: награда за рекорд «Orphée d’or» от Académie du Disque Lyrique в Париже.
1961: Премия Эдисона Общества распространения пластинок, Амстердам
1961: Название «Немецкий камерный певец»
1964: почетный член Шведской королевской музыкальной академии.
1967: Стокгольмская телевизионная премия за лучшее европейское сопрано
1971: Медаль Хьюго Вольфа
1974: Большой крест за заслуги перед орденом за заслуги перед Федеративной Республикой Германия.
1976: Золотая медаль за заслуги перед Веной
1982: Медаль Моцарта от города Франкфурта
1983: Почетный член Венской государственной оперы и назначение камерным певцом.
1986: Commandeur de l ‘ Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
1991: Медаль Моцарта от ЮНЕСКО
2002: Золотая медаль почета федеральной столицы Вены
2006: Эхо Классик (дело всей жизни)

Шведский король Густав VI. В 1964 году Адольф наградил ее медалью «Litteris et artibus». В 1983 году она была избрана главой Ордена Pour le mérite за науку и искусство . В 1990 году это была страна , Баден-Вюртемберг , чтобы профессор назначил. Шварцкопф также получил почетные докторские степени Кембриджского университета (1976), Американского университета Вашингтона (1982) и Университета Глазго (1990). В 1992 году королева Елизавета II сделала ее Dame командующего в ордена Британской империи .

Video[]

She can be seen in two videotaped performances as the Marschallin:

Schwarzkopf Seefried Fischer-Dieskau, a black-and-white DVD of these three singers. Schwarzkopf performs the Act I Finale from Der Rosenkavalier, from a performance filmed in London, 1961. Published by Warner Classics, Catalog number DVB 4904429.
Der Rosenkavalier: the Film, a color videotape/DVD of a full length performance conducted by Herbert von Karajan with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra from the 1961 Salzburg Festival, featuring Sena Jurinac, Anneliese Rothenberger, Otto Edelmann, and Erich Kunz. Published by KULTUR. ASIN: B0043988GM.

Retirement and death[]

File:E. Schwarzkopf-Legge.jpg

Grave in Zumikon

Notes and references[]

She and Legge were married on 19 October 1953 in Epsom, Surrey; Schwarzkopf thus acquired British citizenship by marriage.
↑ Laura Williams Macy (2008). The Grove Book of Opera Singers. Oxford University Press. pp. 442–. ISBN 978-0-19-533765-5.
Lol Henderson; Lee Stacey (27 January 2014). Encyclopedia of Music in the 20th Century. Routledge. pp. 565–. ISBN 978-1-135-92946-6.
«Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf». The Telegraph. 4 August 2006. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
Pick, Hella (2000). Guilty Victim: Austria from the Holocaust to Haider. p. 89. ISBN 978-1860646188. Schwarzkopf who justified Party membership as a passport to performance
↑ Bernstein, Adam (August 4, 2006). «Renowned Coloratura Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, 90». The Washington Post. Retrieved August 4, 2015.
Tagliabue, John (March 17, 1983). «Germans Explore Ties of Musicians of Nazis». The New York Times.
«Alan Jefferson». The Telegraph. 20 April 2010. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
Michael Church (23 October 2011). «BOOK REVIEW / Her Masters’ voice». The Independent. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
«Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf». The Telegraph. 4 August 2006. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
«BBC Radio 4 – Desert Island Discs, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf». Bbc.co.uk. 1958-07-28. Retrieved 2012-11-06.
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Alan Jefferson (1996). «In any case, this famous Desert Island Discs broadcast has gone down in legend, immediately identifying Schwarzkopf for many who had never previously heard of her.»
Gramophone, vol. 83 (2006). «1958 Appears on Desert Island Discs and raises eyebrows by …»
Gramophone, vol. 83 (2005), Letters. «Schwarzkopf’s Desert Island Discs Talk has come up again of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and her Desert Island Discs broadcast in 1958 with her unique choice of seven of her …»
Prima donna: a history, Rupert Christiansen (1995). «It made Schwarzkopf into a uniquely self-conscious interpreter: it was perfectly natural to her that when asked on the BBC radio programme Desert Island Discs to select eight recordings to be shipwrecked with, she should choose only her …»
«Viewing Page 7 of Issue 52767». London-gazette.co.uk. 1991-12-30. Retrieved 2012-11-06.
«Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano)». Gramophone. Retrieved 11 April 2012.
John von Rhein (18 August 1996). «Past Imperfect». Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 1 December 2015.

Примечания и ссылки

Awards[]

1950: Lilli Lehmann Medal, Mozarteum International Foundation, Salzburg
1959: 1. «Orfeo d’Oro», Mantua (?)
1969: Orphée d’or recording award from the Académie du disque lyrique in Paris
1961: Edison Award, Amsterdam
1961: Awarded the title Deutsche Kammersängerin
1964: Honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music
1967: Stockholm television award for best European soprano Stockholmer
1971: Hugo-Wolf Medal
1974: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
1982: Mozart Medal of the city of Frankfurt am Main
1983: Honorary member of the Vienna State Opera and title of Kammersängerin
1986: Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
1991: UNESCO Mozart Medal
1992: Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to music
2002: de
2012: Voted into Gramophone Hall of Fame

Post-war career[]

File:Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.jpeg

Schwarzkopf as Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni

In 1945, Schwarzkopf was granted Austrian citizenship to enable her to sing in the Vienna State Opera (Wiener Staatsoper).Template:Citation needed In 1947 and 1948, Schwarzkopf appeared on tour with the Vienna State Opera at London’s Royal Opera House at Covent Garden on 16 September 1947 as Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni and at La Scala on 28 December 1948, as the Countess in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, which became one of her signature roles.

Schwarzkopf later made her official debut at the Royal Opera House on 16 January 1948, as Pamina in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, in performances sung in English, and at La Scala on 29 June 1950 singing Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis. Schwarzkopf’s association with the Milanese house in the early 1950s gave her the opportunity to sing certain roles on stage for the only time in her career: Mélisande in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, Jole in Handel’s Eracle, Marguerite in Gounod’s Faust, Elsa in Wagner’s Lohengrin, as well as her first Marschallin in Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier and her first Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Così fan tutte at the Piccola Scala. On 11 September 1951, she appeared as Anne Trulove in the world premiere of Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress. Schwarzkopf made her American debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on October 28 and 29, 1954, in Strauss’s Four Last Songs and the closing scene from Capriccio with Fritz Reiner conducting; her American opera debut was with the San Francisco Opera on 20 September 1955 as the Marschallin, and her debut at the Metropolitan Opera on 19 December 1964, also as the Marschallin.

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Schwarzkopf as the Marschallin in Richard Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier

In March 1946, Schwarzkopf was invited to audition for Walter Legge, an influential British classical record producer and a founder of the Philharmonia Orchestra. Legge asked her to sing Hugo Wolf’s lied Wer rief dich denn? and, impressed, signed her to an exclusive contract with EMI. They began a close partnership and Legge subsequently became Schwarzkopf’s manager and companion. They were married on 19 October 1953 in Epsom, Surrey; Schwarzkopf thus acquired British citizenship by marriage. Schwarzkopf would divide her time between lieder recitals and opera performances for the rest of her career. When invited in 1958 to select her eight favourite records on the BBC’s Desert Island Discs, Schwarzkopf chose seven of her own recordings, and an eighth of Karajan conducting the Rosenkavalier prelude, as they evoked fond memories of the people she had worked with.

In the 1960s, Schwarzkopf concentrated nearly exclusively on five operatic roles: Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Countess Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Countess Madeleine in Strauss’s Capriccio, and the Marschallin. She was also well received as Alice Ford in Verdi’s Falstaff. However, 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 theatre of La Monnaie in Brussels. For the next several years, she devoted herself exclusively to lieder recitals. On 17 March 1979, Walter Legge suffered a severe heart attack. He disregarded doctor’s orders to rest and attended Schwarzkopf’s final recital two days later in Zurich. Three days later, he died.

Video[]

She can be seen in two videotaped performances as the Marschallin:

Schwarzkopf Seefried Fischer-Dieskau, a black-and-white DVD of these three singers. Schwarzkopf performs the Act I Finale from Der Rosenkavalier, from a performance filmed in London, 1961. Published by Warner Classics, Catalog number DVB 4904429.
Der Rosenkavalier: the Film, a color videotape/DVD of a full length performance conducted by Herbert von Karajan with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra from the 1961 Salzburg Festival, featuring Sena Jurinac, Anneliese Rothenberger, Otto Edelmann, and Erich Kunz. Published by KULTUR. ASIN: B0043988GM.

Post-war career[]

File:Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.jpeg

Schwarzkopf as Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni

In 1945, Schwarzkopf was granted Austrian citizenship to enable her to sing in the Vienna State Opera (Wiener Staatsoper).[citation needed] In 1947 and 1948, Schwarzkopf appeared on tour with the Vienna State Opera at London’s Royal Opera House at Covent Garden on 16 September 1947 as Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni and at La Scala on 28 December 1948, as the Countess in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, which became one of her signature roles.

File:ElisabethSchwarzkopfMarschallin.jpg

Schwarzkopf as the Marschallin in Richard Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier

In March 1946, Schwarzkopf was invited to audition for Walter Legge, an influential British classical record producer and a founder of the Philharmonia Orchestra. Legge asked her to sing Hugo Wolf’s lied Wer rief dich denn? and, impressed, signed her to an exclusive contract with EMI. They began a close partnership and Legge subsequently became Schwarzkopf’s manager and companion. They were married on 19 October 1953 in Epsom, Surrey; Schwarzkopf thus acquired British citizenship by marriage. Schwarzkopf would divide her time between lieder recitals and opera performances for the rest of her career. When invited in 1958 to select her eight favourite records on the BBC’s Desert Island Discs, Schwarzkopf chose seven of her own recordings, and an eighth of Karajan conducting the Rosenkavalier prelude, as they evoked fond memories of the people she had worked with.

In the 1960s, Schwarzkopf concentrated nearly exclusively on five operatic roles: Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Countess Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Countess Madeleine in Strauss’s Capriccio, and the Marschallin. She was also well-received as Alice Ford in Verdi’s Falstaff. However, 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.

Early career[edit][]

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In 1933, shortly after the Nazis came to power, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf’s father, a local school headmaster, was dismissed from his position by the new ruling authorities for having refused to allow a Nazi party meeting at his school. He was also banned from taking any new teaching post. Until Friedrich Schwarzkopf’s dismissal, the probability was that the 17-year-old Elisabeth would have studied medicine after passing her Abitur; but now, as the daughter of a banned schoolteacher, she was not allowed to enter university and she commenced music studies at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik. Schwarzkopf made her professional debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (then called Deutsches Opernhaus) on 15 April 1938, as the Second Flower Maiden (First Group) in act 2 of Richard Wagner’s Parsifal. In 1940 Schwarzkopf was awarded a full contract with the Deutsches Opernhaus, a condition of which was that she had to join the Nazi party.

Since the theme was brought up in the dissertation of the Austrian historian Oliver Rathkolb in 1982, the discussion of Schwarzkopf’s relationship with the Nazi Party has been discussed repeatedly in the media and in literature. There was criticism that Schwarzkopf, not only in the years immediately after the war but also in confrontation with revelations made in the 1980s and 1990s made contradictory statements, including in regard to her membership in the NSDAP (Member No. 7,548,960). At first, she denied this and then with varying explanations defended it. In one version, for example, she claimed that she joined the party only at the insistence of her father who, himself, had earlier lost his position as school principal after forbidding a Nazi program in the school.[citation needed]

Further publications discussed her musical performances during the war before Nazi party conferences and for units of the Waffen-SS. Her defenders argue in favor of her claim that she always strictly separated art from politics and that she was a non-political person.

In 1942, she was invited 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 in Verdi’s La traviata.

Awards[edit][]

1950: Lilli Lehmann Medal, Mozarteum International Foundation, Salzburg
1959: 1. «Orfeo d’Oro», Mantua (?)
1969: Orphée d’or recording award from the Académie du disque lyrique in Paris
1961: Edison Award, Amsterdam
1961: Awarded the title Deutsche Kammersängerin
1964: Honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music
1967: Stockholm television award for best European soprano Stockholmer
1971: Hugo-Wolf Medal
1974: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
1982: Mozart Medal of the city of Frankfurt am Main
1983: Honorary member of the Vienna State Opera and title of Kammersängerin
1986: Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
1991: UNESCO Mozart Medal
1992: Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to music
2002: Honorary medal from the city of Vienna
2012: Voted into Gramophone Hall of Fame

Великие камерные певцы

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Retirement and death[]

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Post-war career[]

Early career[edit][]

Awards[edit][]

Further reading[]

External links[]

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литература

Notes and references[]

Legacy[]

Retirement and death[]

Recordings[]

External links[]

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Video[]

Retirement and death[]

Notes and references[]

Примечания и ссылки

Рекомендации

Awards[]

Post-war career[]

Video[]

Post-war career[]

Early career[edit][]

Awards[edit][]

Further reading[]

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