Dorothea Siebert

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Dorothea Siebert ( October 11, 1921 in Königsberg - May 31,  2013 ) was a German opera singer with a soprano voice who was engaged at the Vienna State Opera and made guest appearances at the Salzburg and Bayreuth festivals .

Life, work

Siebert studied singing in Berlin and Vienna. She made her debut in 1943 at the City Theater of Marburg an der Drau in Slovenia. From 1945 to 1948 she was at the Klagenfurt City Theater and then for three seasons at the Graz Opera House . In 1951 the call was made to the Vienna State Opera , which at that time - because the house on the Ring was bombed out - performed in the Theater an der Wien and in the Volksoper . She became part of the Vienna Mozart Ensemble . In August 1952 she took over the role of Semele in the world premiere of Liebe der Danae by Richard Strauss at the Salzburg Festival . In 1953 she made a guest appearance with the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera at the Grand Opéra in Paris.

In 1956 she became a member of the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein with its two opera houses in Düsseldorf and Duisburg. In 1964 she moved to the Zurich Opera House , where she stayed until 1975. Parallel to her permanent engagements, she appeared on numerous stages in Europe. Together with Bernhard Paumgartner and his Salzburg ensemble, she made guest appearances in 1956 with the Mozart opera La finta semplice in London, Paris, Brussels as well as in West German and Scandinavian cities. She also sang at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, in Rome, at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London and at the Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich .

Every year from 1954 to 1971 she sang one of the six flower girls in Wagner's Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival . In addition, one of the Rhine daughters, the Woglinde, was transferred to her in Bayreuth, and the voice of the forest bird in Siegfried in two festival summers . While she was only entrusted with small and very small roles in Wagner operas, such as Freia, she was able to take on leading roles in many Mozart and Richard Strauss operas, for example Fiordiligi and Cherubino, Oktavian and Zdenka. In addition, she sang the classical part of a lyric soprano, Mimi, Micaëla, Nedda, Fidelio-Marzelline and the four female roles in Hoffmann's stories , Marie in Lortzing's Zar und Zimmermann and Marie in Smetana's Bartered Bride , Blanchefleur in Kienzl's Der Kuhreigen and the slave Arsinoë in d'Albert's dead eyes .

Her extensive repertoire also included a number of operetta roles , in addition to Hanna Glawari, Laura in Millöckers Begelstudenten and Fiametta in Suppés Boccaccio . Kutsch / Riemens write: "Coloratura soprano of high technical perfection".

With Philips, Vox, Amadeo, Pantheon, Decca, Melodrama and Bella Voce, some sound documents have survived, unfortunately none of their four star roles. Of interest are Bruckner 's Mass in F minor and a recording of Puccini's rarely performed La rondine , a radio recording in German with Ljuba Welitsch .

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SURNAME Siebert, Dorothea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soprano
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 2013