About Elisabeth Schärtel
Lived 1919 – 2012 (aged 92). Elisabeth Schärtel was a German opera singer, singer, musician, contralto and mezzo-soprano.
Elisabeth Schärtel (6 October 1919 – 24 August 2012) was a German operatic mezzo-soprano and contralto. A member of the Cologne Opera from 1959 to 1967, she performed leading parts at major European opera houses and regularly at the Bayreuth Festival.
Career Born in Weiden in der Oberpfalz, she studied with Anna Bahr-Mildenburg in Munich and with Henny Wolff in Hamburg. She made her debut in 1942 at the Stadttheater Gießen. From 1959 to 1967 she was a member of the Cologne Opera. In 1965, she appeared there as the mother of Stolzius in the premiere of Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Die Soldaten.
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Who was Elisabeth Schärtel?
German singer and opera singer (1919–2012)
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Elisabeth Schärtel was born on 6 October 1919 in Weiden in der Oberpfalz.
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Elisabeth Schärtel died on 24 August 2012 in Weiden in der Oberpfalz.
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Elisabeth Schärtel was an opera singer, singer, musician, contralto and mezzo-soprano.
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Elisabeth Schärtel was German.
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