Edda Moser
Edda Moser ( born October 27, 1938 in Berlin ) is a German soprano and high school teacher.
Life
Edda Moser is the daughter of the musicologist Hans Joachim Moser and the study director Hanna Walch, thus direct descendant ( great-granddaughter ) of the composer and pianist married couple Robert and Clara Schumann. She studied singing at the Berlin Conservatory with Hermann Weissenborn and Gerty king. From 1962 to 1963 she was engaged at the Würzburg City Theatre, then in Hagen and Bielefeld. In 1968 she sang in Salzburg under Herbert von Karajan Wellgunde in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. Before she joined the Vienna State Opera, she belonged from 1968 to 1971 the ensemble of the Frankfurt Opera.
Herbert von Karajan took her to the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where she celebrated a spectacular debut as Queen of the Night. Her debut was in Wagner's Das Rheingold. At the Met they then sang, among others, in new productions of The Abduction from the Seraglio, Handel's Rinaldo and as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni.
Late as 1995, debuted Edda Moser as sacristan in Janáček's opera Jenufa at the Bonn Opera.
The highlight of her career Edda Moser sees their Munich of the Magic Flute with the so difficult to singing revenge aria of the Queen of the Night, conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch. The photo was taken in August 1972 at the Electrola.
In her interview with Fono Forum on her 75th birthday, she describes the history of the recording:
She describes in an interview with Holger Wemhoff as it was informed that calculated from this recording the aria of the Queen of the Night was selected so that they could leave the solar system aboard the Voyager 2 spacecraft. One last time they sang this aria at the Paris Opera, conducted by Karl Böhm.
Edda Moser ended her singing career on February 2, 1994 of "Salome" in Vienna. They perceived this as "death", but she wanted to stay as a singer in good memory and changed her life. It was considered a singer who could sing Mozart operas particularly good, but they would have also liked to sing by Richard Wagner Brünhild and Isolde. That this was not possible, she is very sorry.
Since the 1980s, she gives master classes at various institutes and conservatories ( European Academy of Music and Dramatic Art ) Young Munich Philharmonic, the Mozarteum in Salzburg and was a professor at the Hochschule für Musik Köln.
In 2006, Edda Moser initiated the "Festival of German Language ", which was listed on the Heidecksburg in Rudolstadt and since 2007 in the historic Goethe- Theater Bad Lauchstaedt. In March 2011, her autobiography was published, co-written with Thomas Voigt, under the title " Ersungenes happiness."
Edda Moser lives in Rheinbreitbach south of Bonn.