Frieda Hempel

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Frieda Hempel (26 June 1885 – 7 October 1955) was a celebrated German soprano singer in operatic and concert work who had an international career in Europe and the United States. Frieda Hempel was born in Leipzig, Germany, and studied first at the Leipzig Conservatory and afterwards at Stern conservatory, Berlin, where she was a pupil of Selma Nicklass-Kempner. Her earliest appearances were in Breslau, singing Violetta, Queen of the Night and Rosina. She made a debut in Schwerin in 1905, and was engaged there for the next two years, singing also Gilda, Leonora and Woglinde. She made such a success that the Kaiser Wilhelm II requested the Schwerin authorities to release her to sing also in Berlin. She made a debut there in 1905 as Frau Fluth (in Nicolai's Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor). She sang at the Royal Court Opera, Berlin, from 1907 to 1912, where she was also admired as Lucia, Marguerite de Valois and Marie. She appeared at the Covent Garden, London in 1907 as Bastienne, as Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel, as Eva and Elsa and again as Frau Fluth: Melba and Selma Kurz were taking centre stage in the more popular roles. In 1912 she made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York as Marguerite de Valois. She sang regularly in New York thereafter into the 1920s. She was the first to sing the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier in New York (for Gatti-Casazza, December 9 1913) and in Berlin, and she also sang the role in London in 1913. She was in the Met 1913 Bal

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Prima Voce Sampler

Prima Voce - Hempel

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Freida Hempel (Recorded 1910 - 1935)

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Edison Royal Purple #29008; The Cylinder Archive [www.cylinder.de]

Great Opera Singers - Frieda Hempel (1885-1955)

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An Anthology of Song, Vol. 2 (1903-1935)

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Prima Voce

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Great Voices Of Opera

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Prima Voce: Divas 1906-1935

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Great Opera Singers - Anthology of Vintage Opera Recordings, Volume 1

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Frieda Hempel, Soprano

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