Gertrude Grob-Prandl

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Gertrude Grob-Prandl (11 November 1917 – 16 May 1995) was an Austrian

Wagnerian soprano.[1]

Grob-Prandl was born in

Vienna Academy of Music with Singer-Burian.[1] She originally intended to become a piano teacher but the professors at the conservatory began to notice the size of her voice and she was placed in a singing class. Besides size, her voice had a distinctive burnished timbre and a tight, brisk, consistent vibrato.[citation needed] She made her debut in 1939 at the Vienna Volksoper as Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana.[1] She graduated to heavier roles such as Isolde, Brünnhilde and Turandot
. She retired in 1972.

Irmgard Seefried once remarked that the "walls shook" when Grob-Prandl sang Turandot.[2] A popular anecdote states that she was once interrupted while performing as Turandot, by fire-fighters. People outside the theater had mistaken her for a fire-alarm siren.

Unlike many big Wagnerians, she was dexterous enough to sing Mozart. She was a supportive, unselfish ensemble-singer.

Available recordings include Donna Anna in

Robert le Diable, Brünnhilde, Isolde, First Lady in The Magic Flute, as well as Elektra, Turandot, and Elettra in Idomeneo
. There is also an anthology of her solo work.

She died on 16 May 1995 in the city of her birth.

References

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    ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0
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  2. AllMusic

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