Henriette Gottlieb (Berlin, 1884 –

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, 2 January 1942) was a German soprano. Gottlieb was born in Berlin. She performed the Wagnerian role of

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in the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris, in a 1928 performance of ''Der Ring der Nibelung'', when she was a young and promising singer. She performed in the premieres of the operas ''Die Hügelmühle'' by Friedrich Koch (Berlin, 1918) and ''Holofernes'' of Emil von Reznicek (Berlin, 1923). Following the Nazi ban on Jewish performers, she lived in Berlin until she was deported to the

(in the General Government region of

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) in 1941. She died on 2 January 1942. She was noted for her performances and recordings of

Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most op ...

's Brünnhilde:

Recordings

* ''Fidelio'' — Quartets from Acts I and IIOpera on record: 1 Alan Blyth - 1979 "A justly famous performance was that in which Erna Berger and Henriette Gottlieb were joined in quixotic but successful casting by the dramatic tenor Marcel Wittrisch and baritone

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(DB 4417; LV120)"
mp3 ♪ Wagner - 'Die Walküre': "Nun zäume dein Ross" (with Ludwig Weber; Paris, 1930) ♪

References

External links

Photo of Henriette Gottlieb
* Opera Nederland webpage, by Mark Duijnste

Article also has photos and short bios in Dutch of other victims of the Holocaust:

Richard Breitenfeld Richard Breitenfeld (13 October 1869 – 16 December 1944) was a German baritone. He was a member of the Frankfurt Opera ensemble and was murdered in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Breitenfeld was born in Reichenberg (now in the C ...

, Grete Forst, Juan Luria, Theodore Ritch, and Ottilie Metzger. German sopranos 1884 births 1942 deaths Singers from Berlin People who died in the Łódź Ghetto German civilians killed in World War II 20th-century German women opera singers German Jews who died in the Holocaust Jewish opera singers {{Germany-opera-singer-stub