Sophie Diez [SEP] voice type
Sophie Diez
Sophie Diez or Dietz ("née" Hartmann) (1 September 1820 – 3 May 1887) was a German soprano who sang leading roles with the Munich Hofoper (now known as the Bavarian State Opera) in a career spanning 40 years. She is most remembered today for having created the role of Magdalena in Wagner's "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg", but she also sang in the world premieres of several other operas by lesser-known German composers.
Life and career.
Diez was born
's "Zar und Zimmermann" in July 1841—she as Marie and he as the Marquis de Chateauneuf. Sophie Diez died in Munich in 1887 at the age of 66 and was buried in the Alter Südfriedhof cemetery. Her husband died five years later. Richard Strauss dedicated several of his early songs to her, including his 1879 "Für Musik", a setting of Emanuel Geibel's poem "Nun die Schatten dunkeln" 
("Now the Shadows Darken").
Roles created.
Sophie Diez sang in the following