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Frida Leider
12+ albums
20s30s40sWagnersoprano
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Frida Leider (April 18, 1888 - June 4, 1975) was a German opera singer. Leider was one of the most important dramatic sopranos of the 20th century. Her most famous roles were Wagner's Isolde and Brünnhilde, Beethoven's Fidelio, Mozart's Donna Anna, and Verdi's Aida and Leonora. She made over 80 recordings, mainly for Polydor and HMV. Frida Leider was born at Berlin, where she studied singing while working in a bank. Her first engagements led her to opera houses in Halle, Königsberg, and Rostock. After an engagement with the Hamburg State Opera in 1923, she was hired by the Berlin State Opera as first dramatic soprano. After her retirement from the stage in 1946, she remained there as the director and manager of a studio for the rising singers of the Berlin State Opera. Frida Leider made regular guest appearances for over 15 years at the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden in London, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, at La Scala in Milan, and at the State Operas of Vienna and Munich. Naturally, she also made appearances at the Bayreuth Festival, where she was the unrivaled star soprano of the 1930s. In the 1920s she alternated Wagnerian roles with Florence Austral at Covent Garden and the two recorded large parts of The Ring for HMV. Leider married the first concert master of the Berlin State Opera, Prof. Rudolf Deman. The couple had no children. She died in her home city of Berlin. Today the singer's estate is managed by the Frida-Leider-Gesellschaft, which is locate
top songs
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Mild und leise (Tristan und Isolde)
402Der Nußbaum
343Or sai chi I´onore (Don Giovanni)
134Widmung - Marienwürmchen
135Schmerzen
126Auf Dem Wasser Zu Singen
117Isolde! Tristan! - O sink´ hernieder (Tristan und Isolde)
118Die Walkure: Scene from Act III
119Nun zäume dein Ross, reisige Maid (Die Walküre)
1010Träume
10albums
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Lebendige Vergangenheit - Frida Leider
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Lebendige Vergangenheit - Frida Leider (Vol. 2)
The Art of Frida Leider
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Leider, Frida: A Vocal Portrait (1921-1943)
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Frida Leider - Her rarest recordings 1921-1926
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The Symposium Opera Collection, Vol. 19 (1924)
Four Famous Sopranos Of The Past
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Great Opera Singers - Anthology of Vintage Opera Recordings, Volume 1
Legendige Vergangenheit II
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Wagner's The Ring Cycle - Historic Recordings 1936-1958
Frida Leider sings Wagner - 1929-1936
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Frida Leider Sings