Elisabeth Schumann (13 June 1888 – 23 April 1952) was a German soprano who sang in

opera Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a libr ...

, operetta,

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, and lieder. She left a substantial legacy of recordings.

Career

Born in

Merseburg Merseburg () is a town in central Germany in southern Saxony-Anhalt, situated on the river Saale, and approximately 14 km south of Halle (Saale) and 30 km west of Leipzig. It is the capital of the Saalekreis district. It had a dioces ...

, Schumann trained for a singing career in Berlin and Dresden. She made her stage debut in Hamburg in 1909. Her initial career started in the lighter

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roles that expanded into mostly lyrical roles, some coloratura roles, and even a few dramatic roles. She remained at the Hamburg State Opera until 1919, also singing during the 1914/1915 season at the

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, New York. Elisabeth Schumann & Richard Strauss

From 1919 until 1938, she was a star of the

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. Her most famous role was that of Sophie in Richard Strauss's ''

Der Rosenkavalier (''The Knight of the Rose'' or ''The Rose-Bearer''), Op. 59, is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It is loosely adapted from the novel ''Les amours du chevalier de Faublas'' ...

'', but she also excelled in Mozart, taking the roles of Pamina in ''

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'', Zerlina in '' Don Giovanni'', Blonde in ''

Die Entführung aus dem Serail ' () ( K. 384; ''The Abduction from the Seraglio''; also known as ') is a singspiel in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The German libretto is by Gottlieb Stephanie, based on Christoph Friedrich Bretzner's ''Belmont und Constanze, oder Di ...

'' and Susanna in '' The Marriage of Figaro''. Despite her glittering operatic career, she excelled in lieder. Lotte Lehmann, in many ways her rival, paid her the tribute of saying that she represented perhaps the purest singing style of German lieder. The production of her voice, which was not particularly powerful, was so good; and enabled her to continue giving recitals long after many singers retire. This technique sustained her in dramatic operatic roles like Der Rosenkavalier. her careful use of vibrato, never coarse, gave volume and sonority. The conductor

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was her second husband from 1920 until 1938. In 1938, she emigrated to New York City where she lived until her death on 23 April 1952, aged 64. During World War II she gave recitals but mainly taught singing, privately and at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. One of her pupils at Curtis was soprano Florence Kirk. After the war she gave many recitals in Europe, making a particularly successful comeback in England. She was a much-loved artist, admired for her vivacity, elegance, and beauty. She was closely connected with Richard Strauss,

Otto Klemperer Otto Nossan Klemperer (14 May 18856 July 1973) was a 20th-century conductor and composer, originally based in Germany, and then the US, Hungary and finally Britain. His early career was in opera houses, but he was later better known as a concer ...

Lotte Lehmann Charlotte "Lotte" Lehmann (February 27, 1888 – August 26, 1976) was a German soprano who was especially associated with German repertory. She gave memorable performances in the operas of Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Ludwig van Beethoven, ...

Bruno Walter Bruno Walter (born Bruno Schlesinger, September 15, 1876February 17, 1962) was a German-born conductor, pianist and composer. Born in Berlin, he escaped Nazi Germany in 1933, was naturalised as a French citizen in 1938, and settled in the U ...

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, and other leading musicians of the first half of the 20th century.

Death

Elisabeth Schumann died in New York City, New York. She was buried in St Martin's Church, Ruislip, England. Her son is also interred in the same plot.

Honors

*Honorary Member of the Vienna State Opera and the first female Honorary Member of the

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Opera roles

In a career spanning 28 years, Schumann sang 91 roles. Her debut role was the Shepherd Boy in ''

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'' on 2 September 1909 in Hamburg; on 1 November 1937 her last role was the First Flower maiden in ''

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'' in Vienna. * Abisag, ''Daniel in der Löwengrube'' (

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) * Adele, ''

Die Fledermaus ' (, ''The Flittermouse'' or ''The Bat'', sometimes called ''The Revenge of the Bat'') is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée, which premiered in 1874. Background The original li ...

'' ( Johann Strauss II) * Albertine, ''

Die Brautwahl ''Die Brautwahl'' (''The Bridal Choice'') is a "comic-fantastic" opera in three acts and an epilogue by Ferruccio Busoni. The German libretto, by Busoni himself, is based on a short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann. Busoni began work on this, his first c ...

'' (

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) (role creator) * Amore, '' Orfeo ed Euridice'' (

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) * Anna, ''

L'Africaine ''L'Africaine'' (''The African Woman'') is an 1865 French ''grand opéra'' in five acts with music by Giacomo Meyerbeer and a libretto by Eugène Scribe. Meyerbeer and Scribe began working on the opera in 1837, using the title ''L'Africaine'', bu ...

'' (

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) * Ännchen, ''

Der Freischütz ' ( J. 277, Op. 77 ''The Marksman'' or ''The Freeshooter'') is a German opera with spoken dialogue in three acts by Carl Maria von Weber with a libretto by Friedrich Kind, based on a story by Johann August Apel and Friedrich Laun from their 18 ...

'' ( Weber) * Annina, '' La traviata'' (

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) * Antonia, ''

The Tales of Hoffmann ''The Tales of Hoffmann'' (French: ) is an by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was written by Jules Barbier, based on three short stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, who is the protagonist of the story. It was Offenbach's final work; he died i ...

'' ( Offenbach) * Apprentice, '' Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg'' (Wagner) * Arsena, '' The Gypsy Baron'' (Johann Strauss II) * Arsinoe, '' Die toten Augen'' ( d'Albert) * Barbarina, '' The Marriage of Figaro'' ( Mozart) * Bastienne, ''

Bastien und Bastienne ' (''Bastien and Bastienne''), K. 50 (revised in 1964 to K. 46b) is a one-act singspiel, a comic opera, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ' was one of Mozart's earliest operas, written in 1768 when he was only twelve years old. It was allegedly commi ...

'' (Mozart) * Bianca, '' Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung'' (

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) * Blonde, ''

'' (Mozart) * Flower Maiden, ''

'' (

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) * Bronislawa, ''

Der Bettelstudent ''Der Bettelstudent'' (''The Beggar Student'') is an operetta in three acts by Carl Millöcker with a German libretto by Camillo Walzel (under the pseudonym of F. Zell) and Richard Genée, based on ''Les noces de Fernande'' by Victorien Sardou a ...

'' ( Millöcker) * Cherubino, ''The Marriage of Figaro'' (Mozart) * Chorknabe, ''

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'' (Meyerbeer) * The composer, ''

Ariadne auf Naxos (''Ariadne on Naxos''), Op. 60, is a 1912 opera by Richard Strauss with a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. The opera's unusual combination of elements of low commedia dell'arte with those of high opera seria points up one of the work's ...

'' ( Richard Strauss) * Cornelia, ''Meister Grobian'' (Arnold Winternitz) * Cupidon, ''

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'' (Offenbach) * Despina, '' Così fan tutte'' (Mozart) * Dew fairy, '' Hänsel und Gretel'' ( Humperdinck) * Dianora, ''

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'' (

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) * Esquire, ''Parsifal'' (Wagner) * Eva, '' Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg'' (Wagner) * First boy, ''

'' (Mozart) * Forest bird, '' Siegfried'' (Wagner) * Frasquita, '' Carmen'' (

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) * Friedensbote, ''

Rienzi ' (''Rienzi, the last of the tribunes''; WWV 49) is an early opera by Richard Wagner in five acts, with the libretto written by the composer after Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel of the same name (1835). The title is commonly shortened to ''Rie ...

'' (Wagner) * Gerhilde, ''

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'' (Wagner) * Goose girl, ''

Königskinder ' (German for ''King's Children'' or “Royal Children”) is a stage work by Engelbert Humperdinck that exists in two versions: as a melodrama and as an opera or more precisely a '' Märchenoper''. The libretto was written by Ernst Rosmer (pen ...

'' (Humperdinck) * Gretel, ''Hänsel und Gretel'' (Humperdinck) * Hannerl, ''

Das Dreimäderlhaus ''Das Dreimäderlhaus'' (''House of the Three Girls''), adapted into English-language versions as ''Blossom Time'' and ''Lilac Time'', is a Viennese pastiche operetta with music by Franz Schubert, rearranged by Heinrich Berté (1857–1924), ...

'' (

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) * Heimchen, ''

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'' (

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) * Ida, ''

'' (Johann Strauss II) * Ilia, ''

Idomeneo ' (Italian for '' Idomeneus, King of Crete, or, Ilia and Idamante''; usually referred to simply as ''Idomeneo'', K. 366) is an Italian language opera seria by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto was adapted by Giambattista Varesco from a Frenc ...

'' (Mozart) * Laura, '' Der Ring des Polykrates'' ( Korngold) * Lola, ''

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'' ( Mascagni) * Luise, ''Ferdinand und Luise'' (Julius Zaiczek-Blankenau) * Maid, ''

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'' (

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) * Malgherita, ''Meister Andrea'' (

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) * Mařenka, ''

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'' ( Smetana) * Margiana, ''

Der Barbier von Bagdad ''Der Barbier von Bagdad'' (''The Barber of Baghdad'') is a comic opera in two acts by Peter Cornelius to a German libretto by the composer, based on ''The Tale of the Tailor'' and ''The Barber’s Stories of his Six Brothers'' in ''One Thousand a ...

'' (

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) * Marguerite, ''

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) * Marie, ''

Zar und Zimmermann ''Zar und Zimmermann'' (''Tsar and Carpenter'') is a comic opera in three acts, music by Albert Lortzing, libretto by the composer after Georg Christian Römer's ''Der Bürgermeister von Saardam, oder Die zwei Peter'', itself based on the French p ...

'' (

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) * Marzellina, ''

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'' (

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) * Micaëla, '' Carmen'' (Bizet) * Mignon, ''

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) * Mimì, ''

La bohème ''La bohème'' (; ) is an opera in four acts,Puccini called the divisions '' quadri'', '' tableaux'' or "images", rather than ''atti'' (acts). composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1893 and 1895 to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giusep ...

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) * Musetta, ''La bohème'' (Puccini) * Najade (Naiad), ''Ariadne auf Naxos'' (Richard Strauss) * Nanette, '' Der Wildschütz'' (Lortzing) * Nannetta, ''

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'' (Verdi) * Nedda, '' Pagliacci'' (

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) * Norina, ''

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) * Nuri, '' Tiefland'' (d'Albert) * Octavian, ''

'' (Richard Strauss) * Page, ''

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'' (Wagner) * Page, ''

'' (Wagner) * Pamina, ''The Magic Flute'' (Mozart) * Papagena, ''The Magic Flute'' (Mozart) * Pepa, ''Tiefland'' (d'Albert) * Rhinemaiden, ''

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'' (Wagner) * Rose, ''

Lakmé ''Lakmé'' is an opera in three acts by Léo Delibes to a French libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille. The score, written from 1881 to 1882, was first performed on 14 April 1883 by the Opéra-Comique at the (second) Salle Favart in ...

'' ( Delibes) * Rose, ''

Le postillon de Lonjumeau ''Le postillon de Lonjumeau'' (''The Postillion of Lonjumeau'') is an opéra-comique in three acts by Adolphe Adam to a French libretto by Adolphe de Leuven and Léon Lévy Brunswick. The opera has become the most successful of Adam's works, ...

'' ( Adam) * Sandman, ''Hänsel und Gretel'' (Humperdinck) * Serpina, ''

La serva padrona ''La serva padrona'', or ''The Maid Turned Mistress'', is a 1733 intermezzo by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736) to a libretto by Gennaro Federico, after the play by Jacopo Angello Nelli. It is some 40 minutes long, in two parts without o ...

'' ( Pergolesi) * Shepherd boy, ''Tannhäuser'' (Wagner) * Sophie, ''Der Rosenkavalier'' (Richard Strauss) * Susanna, ''Le nozze di Figaro'' (Mozart) * Suschen, ''Die beiden Schützen'' (Lortzing) * Valentin, '' La chanson de Fortunio'' (Offenbach) * Veronika, ' ( Jan Brandts Buys) * Vertraute, '' Elektra'' (Richard Strauss) * Wellgunde, ''

Das Rheingold ''Das Rheingold'' (; ''The Rhinegold''), WWV 86A, is the first of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's '' Der Ring des Nibelungen'' (English: ''The Ring of the Nibelung''). It was performed, as a single opera, at the National ...

'' (Wagner) * Wellgunde, ''

'' (Wagner) * Woglinde, ''Das Rheingold'' (Wagner) * Woglinde, ''Götterdämmerung'' (Wagner) * Yvonne, ''

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Biography

*''Elisabeth Schumann: a Biography'' by (her son) Gerd Puritz, edited and translated by her granddaughter, Joy Puritz, published 1993 by André Deutsch, London, (out of print); revised paperback edition published 1996 by Grant and Cutler, London,

Recordings

*''Great Voices of the Century sing Exotica'', SCSH 005''Great Voices of the Century sing Exotica''
SanCtuS Recordings *"Elisabeth Schumann: Silver thread of song", EMI Classics, 2011, digitally-remastered 6-CD set, 5099991848024.

References

External links

*
Elisabeth Schumann website
discography, photographs (2003) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Schumann, Elisabeth 1888 births 1952 deaths American operatic sopranos German operatic sopranos People from Merseburg Lieder singers Naturalized citizens of the United States Emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States Curtis Institute of Music faculty Voice teachers 20th-century German women opera singers 20th-century American women opera singers Women music educators American women academics