Herta Glaz

Herta Glaz, also: Hertha Glatz ( born September 16, 1910 in Vienna, † 28 January 2006 in Hamden, Connecticut) was a native of Austria American opera singer.

Life

Glaz studied at the Music Academy in Vienna and later at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Her first engagement in 1931 at the age of 19 years at the Breslau Opera as Erda in Wagner's " Rheingold". The mezzo-soprano then toured Austria and Scandinavia and entered in Prague at the Deutsches Theater on.

Glaz emigrated to pressure from the Nazis in the 1930s in the United States. This happened after a U.S. tour with the Salzburg Opera Ensemble in 1936. Their first engagement was at the Opera of Chicago as well as in concerts, organized by Otto Klemperer in Los Angeles. In 1943, she was U.S. citizen.

On the New York Metropolitan Opera, she stood 1942-1956 at 300 performances on stage, for example as Annina in " Rosenkavalier" and Mary in "The Flying Dutchman".

Herta Glaz taught since 1956 at the Manhattan School of Music as well as in New Haven, Connecticut. There they founded the New Haven Opera Society.

In 1977 she moved with her husband Frederick Redlich, a psychology professor at Yale University, to Los Angeles because he was a dean at the university there. They even taught until 1994 at the University of Southern California.