Simone Mangelsdorff
Isolde Nanny Margarete "Simone" Mangelsdorff , née Rieling, (born January 19, 1931 in Bad Dürrenberg , † November 26, 1973 in Cologne ) was a German opera singer ( soprano ).
Life
Mangelsdorff, whose mother was a concert singer, received her vocal training in Munich and with Paul Lohmann in Frankfurt am Main. In 1960 she began her stage career at the Landestheater Coburg , where she stayed until 1962. After holding positions at the Stadttheater Basel and the Nuremberg Opera House , she joined the Cologne Opera in 1967 . There she sang Senta in the Flying Dutchman , Aida, Leonore in Fidelio , Madame Butterfly and other leading roles. She appeared at the Salzburg Festival and gave guest appearances on national stages, but also at Scala , in Venice, in Amsterdam and in Buenos Aires. In 1968 she was on a concert tour in the USA; there she sang Freya at the Metropolitan Opera . Further guest performances followed in Copenhagen, Marseille, Toulouse, Brussels and at the Stuttgart State Opera . Herbert von Karajan played with her as Freya his total Rheingold recording for Deutsche Grammophon . In June 1973 Leonore in the Troubadour was her last role in a Cologne production.
She was married to the jazz musician Emil Mangelsdorff since 1957 . In 1973 she died at the age of 42 in Cologne University Hospital .
Lexical entry
- Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens (Ed.) Large Singer Lexicon . Volume 4. De Gruyter 2003; ISBN 978-3-598-11598-1
Web links
- Simone Mangelsdorff in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Simone Mangelsdorff at Allmusic (English)
- Simone Mangelsdorff at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Death certificate no. 3594 from November 30, 1973, registry office Cologne West. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved April 4, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mangelsdorff, Simone |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mangelsdorff, Isolde Nanny Margarete; Rieling, Isolde Nanny Margarete (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Durrenberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 26, 1973 |
| Place of death | Cologne |