Louise Harriers Wippern

Louise Harriers-Wippern (28 February 1836 – 5 October 1878)

She kept the post until her retirement, and was a great favourite both in dramatic and in the lighter parts. Roles included the title role in Louis Spohr's Jessonda, Pamina in The Magic Flute, Fidelio by Beethoven, Inez in Meyerbeer's L'Africaine, the Princess of Navarre in Boieldieu's Jean de Paris, Mrs. Ankerstrom in Auber's Gustave III, Gretchen in Gounod's Faust, and Elizabeth in Tannhäuser by Wagner. In December 1859 she married at Bückeburg Eduard Harriers, an architect.

She sang for three seasons in London at Her Majesty's Theatre, first appearing in June 1864 as Alice in Robert le diable. She pleased "on account of the freshness of her tone, her firm delivery of the notes, her extreme earnestness and her unquestionable feeling" (The Musical World). Her parts in London were few: Pamina, Amelia in Auber's Un ballo in maschera, Leonora in Verdi's Il Trovatore, and Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni; several of her best parts were in the hands of Thérèse Tietjens, then in the zenith of her fame and powers, and Louise Harriers Wippern was placed at great disadvantage.

In May 1868, while at Königsberg for a guest performance, she was taken ill with diphtheria. She reappeared at Berlin in January 1870, and sang there for a year or more, but her voice and strength were so much impaired that she was compelled to retire in 1871. She died in October 1878, from another throat disease, at the hydrotherapy establishment in Görbersdorf.