Aline Friede

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Aline Friede ( July 5, 1856 near Mitau , Kurland - March 24, 1946 in Schwerin ) was a German opera singer ( alto , mezzo-soprano , later dramatic soprano ).

Life

Aline Friede comes from a Baltic German noble family and was the daughter of a landowner. She studied singing at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin. She had her first concert appearance in Riga in 1881 . In the season 1882/83 she entered the opera stage for the first time as an alto at the Leipzig Opera House . In the same subject she worked at the Danzig City Theater and at the Cologne Opera House. With Professor Julius Stockhausen she then made the transition to the highly dramatic subject and made her debut as “Elsa” ( Lohengrin ) in Breslau. With the inaugural role of the "Jewess" she appeared in Magdeburg in 1891/92, later with "Elsa" in Königsberg and Nuremberg. In 1897 she joined the ensemble of the court theater in Schwerin with “Elsa” . Other important stage roles were "Elisabeth" in Tannhäuser , "Isolde" in Tristan and Isolde , "Leonore" in Fidelio , "Hilde" in Hans Pfitzner's Der poor Heinrich and the title role in Max von Schillings ' Ingwelde . She ended her stage career in Schwerin in 1911 as "Brünnhilde" in Götterdämmerung . After that she continued to work as a concert and oratorio singer .

She was in correspondence with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky . A letter from January 28th jul. / February 9,  1888 greg. has been preserved.

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  1. ^ A b Aline Friede at Tchaikovsky Research