Zoraida Morales

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Zoraida Morales Sancho , also Zoraida Behm-Morales , (* 1927 near Havana ; † April 28, 2004 ) was a Cuban soprano who had lived in Germany since the early 1960s.

Life

She studied music with Paul Csonka (1905–1995) in Havana with a focus on singing and passed the state examination. She later attended the Munich University of Music and Theater for further training . After a short teaching position at the Havana Music Academy, she devoted herself entirely to her singing career in opera, concert and oratorio . In the 1950s she belonged to the Symphony and Choir Society of Havana and sang leading roles in operas organized by the music association “Pro-Arte Musical”, such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Così fan tutte and the Cuban world premiere of Benjamin Britten's Desecration of Lucretia . From 1962 to 1969 Morales was engaged as a soprano at the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam, where she was called the "Cuban Nightingale". In her Cuban homeland, she is one of the classical singers of her time that has been remembered to this day.

In 1969 she became a singing teacher with the radio youth choir Wernigerode at the EOS "Gerhart Hauptmann" Wernigerode, where she had moved with her husband, the tenor Fritz-Peter Behm . In 1978 she left the GDR and settled in Hanover , where she trained as a geriatric nurse. From 2000 onwards she spent her retirement with her son in Magdeburg .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Klaus Büstrin: The "Cuban Nightingale" , in: Potsdamer Latest News from May 6, 2004, accessed on September 10, 2013
  2. ↑ Zoraida Morales ( Memento of August 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), on the Viva la voz website : Las grandes voces de Cuba , accessed on September 10, 2013
  3. ↑ Enrique Río Prado: Efemérides líricas de Cuba: Febrero ( Memento of November 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), on the website of the Teatro Lírico Nacional de Cuba, accessed on September 10, 2013 (Spanish)
  4. ↑ Enrique Río Prado: Efemérides líricas de Cuba: Octubre ( Memento of December 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), on the website of the Teatro Lírico Nacional de Cuba, accessed on September 10, 2013 (Spanish)
  5. ^ Sociedad Sinfónico-Coral de La Habana , in the official Cuban online encyclopedia EcuRed , accessed on September 10, 2013 (Spanish)
  6. ↑ Pro-Arte (18) , in the blog Dance in the City of September 18, 2011, accessed on September 10, 2013 (Spanish)
  7. ↑ Defendamos el canto lírico cubano , in: Juventud Rebelde from June 14, 2007, accessed on September 10, 2013 (Spanish)
  8. ↑ Daniel Fernández: Cuba, pionera de la ópera en las Américas ( Memento from September 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), from May 20, 2007 in: El Nuevo Herald , accessed on September 10, 2013 (Spanish)
personal data
SURNAME Morales, Zoraida
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Behm-Morales, Zoraida; Morales Sancho, Zoraida (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban soprano
DATE OF BIRTH 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH near Havana
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 2004