Elisabeth Radó

Elisabeth Radó ( born October 29, 1899 in Mostar, † 3 April 1986 in Vienna) was an Austrian opera singer and voice teacher.

Radó stemmed from the former Yugoslavia, which belonged at the time of their birth to the Dual Monarchy of Austria - Hungary. First singing lessons she received from her adoptive mother, Maria Radó. In the early 1920s she went to Vienna, where she worked as an opera and concert singer. From the early 1930s, she was mainly active in Vienna as a singing teacher, singing teacher and vocal coach. Occasionally, they even appeared at concerts, gave her singing career, however, largely in favor of vocal pedagogy on.

From 1950 to 1966 taught Radó singing at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. Radó was in Vienna as " legendary singing teacher ." Her pupils included the opera singers Fritz Uhl, Waldemar Kmentt, Eberhard Waechter, Heinz Holecek, Dorit Hanak, Herbert Prikopa, Lilian Benningsen, Kieth Engen and the tenor Werner Krenn and the mezzo-soprano Gertrude Jahn. Even actors were their students, including Michael Heltau.

Radó lived in Vienna in the fourth district of Wieden, together in a house with the later opera tenor Waldemar Kmentt, who was one of her students.