Rosalind von Schirach
Rosalind von Schirach (born April 21, 1898 in Berlin , † 1981 in Munich ), pseudonym Rosa Lind , was a German opera singer (soprano).
Life
Von Schirach was a soprano . Her father Karl Bailly von Schirach was director of the Weimar National Theater from 1909 to 1918 . Her brother was Baldur von Schirach , who later became the Nazi youth leader .
From 1920 to 1925 she was employed under her stage name Rosa Lind at the Leipzig Opera House , then from 1925 to 1928 as a coloratura soprano at the Mannheim National Theater. After switching to lyrical and lyrical-dramatic subjects, von Schirach was, under her real name Rosalind von Schirach, a member of the Deutsche Oper Berlin from 1930 to 1935 . In 1935 she appeared at the Covent Garden Opera in London in the role of Gutrune in Wagner's Götterdämmerung .
He also made guest appearances at the Munich State Opera (1935), the Cologne Opera (1935) and again in 1936 at the Mannheim National Theater. In 1931 she appeared at the Bayreuth Festival as Freia in Das Rheingold and as Gutrune; she also sang one of the flower girls in Parsifal . In 1934 she made a guest appearance at the forest opera Sopot , where she had great success as Sieglinde in Die Walküre and as Eva in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg . She also appeared as a concert and lieder singer and took part in programs on the Reichssender Berlin , Reichssender Cologne , Reichssender Munich and Reichssender Stuttgart.
Her career under National Socialism was limited, as von Schirach, in contrast to her brother, was cautious and rather hostile to the National Socialist movement. In 1940 she performed as a concert soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra at concerts in the occupied countries of the Netherlands , Belgium and France for the purpose of cultural propaganda during the Third Reich . Von Schirach does not seem to have continued her career after the Second World War . There are two recordings of her on Odeon .
literature
- Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 523.
- Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Fourth, enlarged and updated edition. Munich 2003. Volume 6: Rasa – Sutton, p. 4208. ISBN 3-598-11598-9
Web links
- Rosalind von Schirach in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schirach, Rosalind von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lind, Rosa (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1981 |
| Place of death | Munich |