Maria Reining

Maria Reining ( born August 7, 1903 in Vienna, † 11 March 1991 Deggendorf ) was an Austrian soprano and chamber singer.

Reining initially worked as an employee in a Viennese bank. It was not until the age of 28 she began her singing career in 1931 at the Vienna State Opera, mainly in Soubrettenpartien. Two years later she moved to Darmstadt and then at the Munich State Opera, where she made her debut under Hans Knappertsbusch as Elsa in Lohengrin by Richard Wagner. In 1937 she followed Knappertsbusch at the Vienna State Opera, where she debuted a second time in the role of Elsa.

Maria Reining was a member of the Vienna State Opera from 1931 to 1933 From 1937 to 1957. Between 1937 and 1941 she sang with great success at the Salzburg Festival, among others under Arturo Toscanini.

She sang mostly roles of Mozart, Wagner and Richard Strauss. She has appeared in the leading European opera houses. Among other things, she sang at Covent Garden in London and La Scala in Milan.

Maria Reining died in 1991 in the Lower Bavarian town of Deggendorf and was buried in an honorary grave dedicated to the Dornbacher cemetery in Vienna ( group 35, Number 132).

With Reining are several complete opera recordings, including Arabella (Salzburg 1947 under Böhm ), the Daphne (Vienna 1944, Böhm ), Ariadne (Vienna 1944, Böhm ), Leonora ( Il Trovatore ) ( Reichssender Orchestra Stuttgart 1936, Zimmermann ), Eva (Vienna 1937, Toscanini ) as well as the Marschallin (Salzburg 1949, Szell, Salzburg 1953, Krauss, Vienna, 1954 ( Studio), Kleiber, Vienna 1955, Knappertsbusch ).