Liselotte Hammes

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Liselotte Hammes
Born1933 (age 90–91)
Musikhochschule Köln
Occupations
  • Operatic soprano
  • Voice teacher
Organizations

Liselotte Hammes (born 1933) is a German operatic

Glyndebourne Festival
, among other European opera houses.

Career

Hammes was born in

Musikhochschule Köln, first piano, then voice.[1]

In 1957, she made her debut at the Cologne Opera, as Amor in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice.[1] She remained a member of the opera house until 1968 when she married, but still appeared there as a guest until the mid-1970s.[1]

She appeared as a guest in Germany and internationally, at the

Glyndebourne Festival in a production that was recorded.[1] Conducted by John Pritchard, she sang again with Żylis-Gara, this time with Montserrat Caballé as the Marschallin and Otto Edelmann as Ochs.[3]

Her repertoire of about 70 roles included the major roles of Susanna in Mozart's

Die Zauberflöte, Marzelline in Beethoven's Fidelio, Mimì in Puccini's La bohème and the title role in his Manon Lescaut, Nedda in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, Marie in Smetana's Die verkaufte Braut and Ann Truelove in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress.[1]

Hammes also appeared as a concert singer. In 1973, she turned to teaching, first in Bonn and Siegburg, and from 1985 was a professor at the Musikhochschule Köln.[1]

Recording

In 1966, she recorded the role of Zdenka in Arabella by Richard Strauss live at La Fenice in Venice, alongside Melitta Muszely in the title role and with Meinhard von Zallinger as conductor.[4]

References

  1. ^ .
  2. ^ "Ab 1965". Festschrift / 50 Jahre (PDF) (in German). Theater- und Konzertfreunde Dortmund. 2015. p. 126.
  3. Glyndebourne Festival
    . Retrieved 29 March 2019.
  4. .

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