Sigrid Onégin

Sigrid Onégin (June 1, 1889 – June 16, 1943) was a Franco-German operatic dramatic contralto who enjoyed a major international career prior to World War II. She was celebrated for the richness of its tone, its flexibility, its size, and its expert coloratura technique.

She studied in Frankfurt, Munich, and Milan, and also took lessons from famous singers of an earlier generation in Lilli Lehmann and Margarethe Siems. Her operatic debut occurred at Stuttgart in October 1912, where she appeared as Carmen. She joined the Stuttgart Opera in 1912 and the Munich Opera in 1919. After her first husband's death in 1919, she married a second time in 1920 to Dr. Fritz Penzoldt, who would later write her biography.

Notable roles

Orfeo (Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice) Eboli (Don Carlos) Fidès (Le prophète) Erda (Das Rheingold and Siegfried) Lady Macbeth (Macbeth) Fricka (Das Rheingold and Die Walküre) Waltraute (Die Walküre and Götterdämmerung) Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde) Amneris (Aida) Orsini (Lucrezia Borgia)

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