Henriette Gottlieb
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Henriette Gottlieb was a German soprano. She performed the Wagnerian role of Brünhilde in the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
of Paris during the performance of Der Ring der Nibelung on 1928, when she was just a young promise. Her career was broken all of a sudden when she died in the Łódź Ghetto on 2 January 1942.
She was noted for her performances and recordings of Wagner's Brunnhilde:
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
The Théâtre des Champs-Élysées is a theatre at 15 avenue Montaigne. Despite its name, the theatre is not on the Champs-Élysées but nearby in another part of the 8th arrondissement of Paris....
of Paris during the performance of Der Ring der Nibelung on 1928, when she was just a young promise. Her career was broken all of a sudden when she died in the Łódź Ghetto on 2 January 1942.
She was noted for her performances and recordings of Wagner's Brunnhilde:
Recordings
- Fidelio — Quartets from Acts I and II
- mp3 ♪ Wagner - 'Die Walküre': "Nun zäume dein Ross" (with Ludwig Weber; Paris, 1930) ♪
External links
- Photo of Henriette Gottlieb
- Opera Nederland webpage, by Mark Duijnstee Article in Dutch with photo Article also has photos and short bios in Dutch of other victims of the Holocaust: Richard BreitenfeldRichard BreitenfeldRichard Breitenfeld was a German baritone who was a member of the Frankfurt Opera ensemble and was murdered in the Theresienstadt concentration camp....
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