Dora Komar

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Dorothea Anna Chlotilde Komarek (born April 18, 1914 in Vienna , † November 21, 2006 in Lisbon ) was an Austrian dancer, film actress and opera singer (soprano).

Life

Born in Vienna, Dorothea Komarek participated in the children's ballet of the Vienna State Opera in her youth before she made her adult debut as a professional dancer in the same place in 1933. The State Opera engaged Dora Komar, who had also had a vocal training, two years later as a singer. It remained there until all theaters were closed in late summer 1944, as ordered by Goebbels . Dora Komar's best-known successes on stage include The Bartered Bride , The Marriage of Figaro , The Magic Flute and The Abduction from the Seraglio .

Dora Komar has also starred in motion pictures. Immediately after her brilliant debut at the side of Willi Forst in the box office hit operetta, she was cast twice as a partner by Johannes Heesters (in Always Only You and Carnival of Love ) and appeared in her last film role before the end of the war in the magnificent color film Wiener Mädeln again at the side of Willi Forst, this time in Prague, which was largely spared by the war .

Dorothea Komarek, married to Somborn since 1941, emigrated in 1946 with her husband (since 1941), the Cologne lawyer and producer of the Forst-Komar-Films Operetta and Viennese Girls Hans Leopold Somborn , and their three children to Rio de Janeiro , where Dora Komar continued her artistic activity. In the 1950s she gave recitals at the Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro with works by Mozart , Strauss , Lehár and Schubert and guest performances of opera arias in Santiago de Chile , Buenos Aires and Montevideo .

The Somborn family returned to Austria in 1970. The couple often stayed in Portugal, where their youngest son lived. Hans Leopold Somborn died in Lisbon on January 30, 1993, his widow there on November 21, 2006.

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personal data
SURNAME Komar, Dora
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Komarek, Dorothea Anna Chlotilde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian dancer, film actress and opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 2006
Place of death Lisbon