Liselotte Thomamüller

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Liselotte Thomamüller (born November 1, 1908 in Mannheim ; † June 24, 1988 in Bremen ) was a German opera singer ( soprano ).

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Thomamüller (the name comes from her first husband, a Bremen doctor), née Mayer and married Bröcheler, attended the Liselotteschule in Mannheim, sang in Bremen after her vocal training since 1938 and was a member of the opera ensemble at the Bremen Theater as a highly dramatic soprano . She was signed up for the Rolandwerft around 1944 . After the Second World War she sang in operas a. a. Elektra in the opera Elektra by Richard Strauss , as Ortrud in Lohengrin and as Brünnhilde in Der Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner as well as in other Wagner operas such as Tristan and Isolde , Parsifal and Die Meistersinger as well as in 1954 in The Sorceress by Tschaikowsky . Her partner Caspar Bröcheler was often in Bremen as a hero baritone . She also sang at the Bayreuth Festival for three years from 1951 (including as Helmwige in Die Walküre (1951 under Herbert von Karajan ) from 1951 to 1953 ) and for decades at the Hamburg State Opera .

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