Magda Spiegel
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Magda Spiegel was a German contralto
who was a member of the Frankfurt Opera ensemble and was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp
. The baritone Richard Breitenfeld
, also of the Frankfurt Opera, shared the same fate.
Peter Hugh Reed wrote in American Record Guide
, 1949:
Contralto
Contralto is the deepest female classical singing voice, with the lowest tessitura, falling between tenor and mezzo-soprano. It typically ranges between the F below middle C to the second G above middle C , although at the extremes some voices can reach the E below middle C or the second B above...
who was a member of the Frankfurt Opera ensemble and was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp
Auschwitz concentration camp
Concentration camp Auschwitz was a network of Nazi concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II...
. The baritone Richard Breitenfeld
Richard Breitenfeld
Richard Breitenfeld was a German baritone who was a member of the Frankfurt Opera ensemble and was murdered in the Theresienstadt concentration camp....
, also of the Frankfurt Opera, shared the same fate.
Peter Hugh Reed wrote in American Record Guide
American Record Guide
The American Record Guide is a classical music magazine. It has reviewed classical music recordings since 1935.Since 1992, with the incorporation of the Musical America editorial functions into ARG, it started covering concerts, musicians, ensembles and orchestras in the US.The magazine prides...
, 1949:
I have also learned with the deepest regret about the similar death of the contralto, Magda Spiegel, from Frankfurt. She made some excellent acoustic records in the early 1920s for Odeon, Vox and Homochard – I remember her as a thrilling Adriano in Wagner's Rienzi when the Frankfurt opera company visited Holland in 1934.
External links
- Magda Spiegel on operanostalgia.be