Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, DBE was a GermanBritish soprano. She was among the foremost singers of lieder, and was renowned for her performances of Viennese operetta. After retiring from the stage, she was a voice teacher internationally.

Olga Maria Elisabeth Friederike Schwarzkopf was born onDecember 1915 in Jarocin in the Province of Posen in Prussia to Friedrich Schwarzkopf and his wife, Elisabeth . Schwarzkopf performed in her first opera in 1928, as Eurydice in a school production of Glucks Orfeo ed Euridice in Magdeburg, Germany. In 1934, Schwarzkopf began her musical studies at the Berlin Hochschule fr Musik, where her singing tutor, Lula MyszGmeiner, attempted to train her to be a mezzosoprano. Schwarzkopf later trained under Maria Ivogn, and in 1938 joined the Deutsche Oper.

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