Pink Book
Rosa Book , also Rose Book (born August 20, 1907 in Vienna , † 1995 in New York ) was an Austro-American opera singer (soprano).
Life
Rose Book received her vocal training (soprano) at the Vienna Conservatory with Viktor Fuchs. She began her career in Nuremberg and Mainz in 1925 and sang for five years from 1927 in Breslau and then in Hamburg. After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , she was dismissed from the ensemble of the Hamburg City Theater in 1934 due to her Jewish origins . In the following years she sang at events organized by the Jewish Cultural Association and at the Deutsches Theater in Prague . After she was fired in Prague in October 1938, she decided to flee to the USA. In New York she performed under the name Rosa Bok at the Metropolitan Opera , including as Queen of the Night in Mozart's Magic Flute . After a serious theater accident, she still worked as a singing teacher in New York.
She had an older sister, Johanna Book (* 1899), who had also worked as a singer and later lived with her in New York.
literature
- Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Third, expanded and updated edition. Berlin 2000
- Hannes Heer ; Jürgen Kesting ; Peter Schmidt: Silent voices: the Bayreuth Festival and the "Jews" from 1876 to 1945; an exhibition . Bayreuth Festival Park and Exhibition Hall New Town Hall Bayreuth, July 22 to October 14, 2012. Metropol, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86331-087-5 , p. 49
Web links
- Rosa Book in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Rosa Book at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- Rose Book in the Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians of the Nazi Era (LexM)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Book, pink |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Book, rose |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austro-American opera singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 20, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1995 |
| Place of death | new York |