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Erna Spoorenberg
Erna Spoorenberg (11 April 192518 March 2004) was a Dutch soprano.
She was born in Yogyakarta, Java, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). As a child, she studied the violin and singing. At the age of 14, she studied under Isa Neuhaus, a singer with the Düsseldorf Opera (who was later transported and killed by the Nazis). Spoorenberg then studied singing under Aaltje Noordewier until she was 17, whilst continuing her violin lessons under Julius Röntgen. At the conservatory,
town of Vught, where she died in 2004, aged 78.
Recordings.
Her more than 20 recordings include:
- "The Art of Erna Spoorenberg in Opera" Gala GL 100.570
- "Erna Spoorenberg: Legendary Voices" Decca 466 985-2
- "Leona Mitchell and Erna Spoorenberg - Italian Arias and Sacred Songs" Works by Giacomo Puccini; Pietro Mascagni; Gioachino Rossini; Giuseppe Verdi; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Belart 461
- "Les pêcheurs de perles" by Bizet. Role: Leila