Minnie Ruske-Leopold

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Minnie Ruske-Leopold , originally Minnie Leopold ( 1887 in Frankfurt am Main - date and place of death unknown) was a German opera singer with a soprano voice . When the National Socialists came to power, their stage career in Germany ended. She had to leave the country and fled to the United States in 1934 . Their whereabouts afterwards are unclear.

life and work

Minnie Leopold went to Berlin and took singing lessons from the coloratura soprano Emmy Burg-Raabe (1874–1927). She was under the name Minnie Leopold in the 1912-13 season at the Stadttheater Nürnberg , in the season 1913-14 at the Stadttheater Heidelberg . She made her first guest appearance in 1913 at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels. Afterwards she was engaged for ten years - from 1914 to 1924 - as a dramatic soprano at the Grand Ducal Court and National Theater in Mannheim. After her marriage she appeared as Minnie Ruske-Leopold. In the 1925-26 season she was a member of the Berlin City Opera . Her inaugural roles in Berlin were Giulietta and Chrysothemis.

In 1927 and 1928, the artist took part in the Bayreuth Festival . There she sang one of the Rhine Daughters and one of the Valkyries in the Ring of the Nibelung (Wellgunde and Siegrune) as well as the 1st Knappen and a solo flower girl in Parsifal . She also performed at the Semperoper in Dresden (1927), the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin (1927 and 1928) and at the Grand Théâtre in Geneva (1930). In Amsterdam she took over the Siegrune in 1928, the 1st squire in 1929 and the 2nd lady in 1931. Her star roles included the Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana and Marta in the lowlands

In 1933 her career in Germany was ended by the racial policy of the National Socialists. In 1934 she emigrated to the United States. It seems to have seldom performed there. Her further fate is unknown.

repertoire

d'Albert :

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Mascagni :

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Audio documents

The singer participated in the recording of the Bayreuth Parsifal from 1927/28, conducted by Karl Muck - as one of the flower girls. In the Bayreuth recording of the Ring des Nibelungen she can be heard as Wellgunde in the song of the Rheintöchter im Rheingold and as Siegrune in the Valkyrie scene of the Walküre .

Commemoration

Memorial plaque for Minnie Ruske-Leopold in Bayreuth

In the park near the Bayreuth Festival Hall , a memorial plaque with a text from the book Silent Voices was erected.

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personal data
SURNAME Ruske-Leopold, Minnie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leopold, Minnie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH 20th century