Sigrid Onégin
Sigrid Onégin, actually Elfriede Elisabeth Emilie Sigrid Hoffmann, ( born June 1, 1889 in Stockholm, † June 16, 1943 in Magliaso, Canton Ticino, Switzerland, ± Waldfriedhof Stuttgart) was a German opera and concert singer. She sang in the vocal range alto.
Life
In 1905 she received vocal training in Munich and Milan. 1911 was followed by first appearances as a concert singer. From 1912 to 1919, she went to the Stuttgart Opera, with the debut as Carmen. 1919 to 1922 she sang at the State Opera in Munich.
Between 1922 and 1924 they had to perform at New York's Metropolitan Opera debut as Amneris and Aida. 1926 to 1931, she joined the Metropolitan Opera in Berlin. In 1927, she completed a guest performance at the Covent Garden Opera in London with the Ring des Nibelungen conducted by Bruno Walter. 1931 and 1932, it achieved it at the Salzburg Festival a triumph as Orfeo. 1933 and 1934 she performed at the Bayreuth Festival with alto parts in the Ring of the Nibelung. 1931-1935 had Onégin at the Stadttheater Zurich a guest performance contract. In 1942 her last concert appearance in Zurich.
She " married " in the first marriage on 25 May 1913 appearing under the pseudonym " Baron Eugene Borisovich Onégin " composer and pianist Agnes Elisabeth Overbeck ( 1870-1919 ), great-granddaughter of Christian Adolph Overbeck. His second wife Onegin was married since 1920 with the physician Fritz Penzoldt († 1959), the brother of the writer Ernst Penzoldt. Her son was the writer Peter Penzoldt ( 1925-1969 ). Onégin initially joined under the name of Lilly Hoffmann, later as Lilly Hoffmann- Onégin, soon after her first marriage, but under the name Sigrid Onégin under which it became famous. In the second marriage, she was also named as civil Sigrid Onégin - Penzoldt.
Onegin had one of the most expressive and most cultured alto voices of the 20th century ( Stephan horns ).
Recordings
- Sigrid Onegin, Recordings 1928-1930, MDVclassic
- Sigrid Onegin, opera arias and songs, Pearl
- The living past - Sigrid Onegin, Vol 1, Vol 2 and Vol 3, Preiser
- Sigrid Onegin Vol 1 ( 1919-1921 recordings ), Nimbus Prima Voce