Margot Leander
Margot Leander (born February 19, 1895 in Oberlößnitz ; † after 1929; real name: Margarete Gottschalk ) was a German concert and opera singer ( soprano ).
Life
Born in Saxony just outside Dresden, Gottschalk, who took the stage name Margot Leander, made her debut at the Mainz City Theater in 1915 . From 1919 to 1925 she was the first soprano at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, and in 1925 and 1926 she was a member of the ensemble of the Opera House in Cologne . She gave guest appearances at leading German-speaking opera houses, for example at the Frankfurt Opera House and in Vienna in 1922 .
Leander played in the revue operetta Casanova in 1928 .
In addition, she was an important concert soprano in the 1920s and 1930s, who could also be heard frequently on Munich radio. There are probably no commercial recordings of her available. It is not known whether there are recordings of their radio broadcasts.
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- Turandot in Turandot by Giacomo Puccini
- Floria Tosca in Tosca by Puccini
- Butterfly in Madama Butterfly by Puccini
- Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana by Pietro Mascagni
- Carmen in Carmen by Georges Bizet
- Senta in The Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner
- Elsa von Brabant in the Lohengrin by Wagner
- Salome in Salome by Richard Strauss
- Elektra in Elektra by Strauss
- Field Marshal Princess Werdenberg in the Rosenkavalier von Strauss
- Dyer in The Woman Without a Shadow by Strauss
- Diemuth in distress from Strauss
literature
- Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . CD-ROM version (= 3rd expanded edition (1997–2000)), Vol. 3, p. 2016.
Web links
- Margot Leander in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Margot Leander in the Manskopf Collection of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main
Individual evidence
- ^ Full cast and crew for Casanova (1928) , accessed July 14, 2012.
- ^ Karl J. Kutsch; Leo Riemens: Large song dictionary. CD-ROM version (= 3rd expanded edition (1997–2000)), Vol. 3, p. 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leander, Margot |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gottschalk, Margarete |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German concert and opera singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oberloessnitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1929 |