Elfriede Trötschel

Elfrida Trötschel (born 22 December 1913 in Dresden, † June 20, 1958 in Berlin) was a German soprano. She was opera and lieder singer.

Life and artistic work

Elfrida Trötschel was the daughter of the former Liszt 's pupil Albert Trötschel who practiced the profession of organ builder and music educators.

At age nine, she became an orphan, came to a foster family in which the child has been seriously neglected. On the occasion of the wedding of her older sister's mental distraction Elfrida Trötschels fell on, and only in a second family in Dresden- Cotta she found a friendly, family recording. At sixteen, she visited the Dresden Music School, where she was trained among others Kühnau Sophie Bernard and Doris Winkler as a chorus girl. The heroic baritone Paul Schöffler renounced his teacher fee. After his departure it was prepared by Helene Young on the part of Freischütz Annie, who sang Trötschel on November 13, 1934 for the first time.

Karl Böhm committed Trötschel 1934 at the Semper Opera, where she worked until 1950 and many major roles in the lyric and sang later in the teen - dramatic roles. In the same year she was appointed Saxon chamber singer. In 1936, she began her international career with guest appearances in London and Florence. Five years later, the first time were the Salzburg Festival on the program. In 1948 she participated in a comprehensive guest performance contract to Walter Felsenstein's Komische Oper. Since 1949, she worked again under Otto Klemperer, who praised her: " No soprano designed the Wunderhorn text so intimately, simple and girlish as the Trötschel. "

From 1950 to 1951 she was engaged at the Berlin State Opera. From there she moved to the West Berlin State Opera. Your international engagements have taken her to Edinburgh, Glyndebourne, Vienna, Naples, Lisbon, Marseille and Zurich. Her last guest appearance at the Dresden State Opera was on February 22, 1953 in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, yet at the Kurhaus Bühlau that belonged in the postwar period to the few remaining large event buildings in Dresden. What began in 1933 in the former Dresdner Lingnerschloss with an evening of songs, ended in December 1956 with her last recital at the Kurhaus Bühlau.

Numerous LP recordings rounded off the artistic activity of the singer. Elfrida Trötschel died at the age of only 44 years probably due to cancer and was buried in the cemetery Cottaer. Today in Dresden's Nickern reminds the " Elfrida - Trötschel Street " at her.

Criticism

In Sängerlexikon of coach / belt it says about the artist, you appreciate them "because of the fineness of her talk and the luminosity of its timbres in an extensive stage and concert repertoire ."