Maria Sigri
Maria Sigri , née Maria Siegrist , married Maria Hirschbühl , (born August 25, 1908 in Zurich ; † June 22, 2012 in Buchs AG ) was a Swiss opera singer ( soprano ).
Life
She studied in Zurich, Basel and Florence , among others . She worked at the Stadttheater Bern from 1943 to 1949. Later she appeared in Zurich, St. Gallen , Geneva , Lausanne , Lucerne , Milan , Rome , Florence, Turin , Vienna , Salzburg and Graz , Paris , Caracas , Barcelona , Athens and Ankara , Istanbul and Cairo . The operas she sings include The Abduction from the Seraglio , Le nozze di Figaro , Così fan tutte or The Magic Flute , where she played the Queen of the Night.
She was married to the painter Jack Hirschbühl from 1951 until his death in 2002. The couple lived in Bern and later in Ittigen . Maria Sigri died on June 22, 2012 at the age of 103 in Buchs AG , where she had already lived during her school days.
She derived the stage name Maria Sigri from her maiden name Maria Siegrist.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . tape 4 . Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2004, ISBN 978-3-598-44088-5 , p. 4401 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ a b Heinz Bürki: Famous singer has returned to Buchs . In: Buchser Bote . No. 5 , 2011, p. 3 ( online [PDF]).
- ↑ Deaths / days of death - as of December 2012. (No longer available online.) In: Online Merker. December 2012, archived from the original on January 5, 2016 ; accessed on January 11, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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| SURNAME | Sigri, Maria |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Siegrist, Maria (maiden name); Hirschbühl, Maria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss opera singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 22, 2012 |
| Place of death | Buchs AG |