Elisabeth Schumann

Elisabeth Schumann ( born June 13, 1888 in Merseburg, Germany, † April 23, 1952 in New York, United States) was a German soprano.

Elisabeth Schumann learned her art of singing in Berlin ( including among Valerie Zitelmann ) and Dresden. In 1909 she celebrated her stage debut in Hamburg with a role in Wagner's Tannhäuser and remained seven years. During this time, she played roles such as Susanna in Mozart's opera Le nozze di Figaro, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, the role of Eva in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and the role of Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss.

Schumann was a member of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and the Vienna State Opera. With the seizure of power by the National Socialists in 1937 her career was abruptly ended by a professional ban, as well as her then, second husband, the conductor Karl Alwin, with whom she was married from 1920 to 1938. While Alwin only in 1938 emigrated to Mexico, she went back in 1937 in the United States. She was taken immediately to the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

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