Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg (1894-1976) / Air de Lia / L'enfant prodigue (Debussy) / Recorded: in the late 1930s - early 1940s) - The German soprano Elisabeth Rethberg (September 22, 1894 - June 6, 1976) was an opera singer of international repute active from the time of World War II until the early 1940s. Some welcomed it as the greatest soprano of her time. (Your boss contemporary rivals on the New York Metropolitan Opera was the Italian-American soprano Rosa Ponselle, who has alarger and darker-colored voice.) While no problems with new ground was dramatically or vocally Rethberg sing as much at home in Italian or German. It employs her pure, beautiful and good-sized lyric voice with focus so that it never seems covered in old photographs either by loud-voiced orchestra or larger partner. They slotted in perfectly gentle rolling Mozart was perhaps the greatest Amelia in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera, that has the Metropolitan Operaever known. Her singing of the more lyrical Wagnerian soprano parts as Sieglinde, Eva, Elsa and Elisabeth was unsurpassed in his time and probably since. Rethberg Elisabeth Sattler was born in Black Mountain. She studied at the Dresden Music Academy with Otto Watrin and made her operatic debut in the German city in the operetta The Gypsy Baron by Johann Strauss in 1915. Rethberg sang with the Dresden Opera until 1922. This year she made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Aida in GiuseppeVerdi's ...

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