Beatrix Borchard

Beatrix Borchard has a Ph.D. in musicology, German philology, history and philosophy. Since 2002 she has served as professor of musicology and gender studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg.

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Ernestine Schumann-Heink at Bayreuth Festival, 1904

Ernestine Schumann-Heink

Ernestine Schumann-Heink was a prominent opera singer whose career spanned from the time she was seventeen into her 70s. Born in Lieben in 1861, Schumann-Heink rose to fame at the Hamburg Opera, and became a Metropolitan Opera star with a repertory of 150 roles. She was known as “The Nation’s Beloved Mother” for singing on weekly radio programs, while raising 7 children. 

Fritzi Massary

Fritzi Massary was a prominent singer in Berlin prior to the onset of World War II. She reigned over the Berlin stage, singing the title role in Franz Lehar’s The Merry Widow and Adele in Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus. Among the works created especially for her was the operetta Die Kaiserin by Leo Fall.

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