Helga Pilarczyk [SEP] voice type
Helga Pilarczyk
Helga Pilarczyk (12 March 1925 – 15 September 2011) was a German operatic soprano.
Born in Schöningen, she originally trained as a pianist, at Braunschweig and at the . However, she made her debut as a contralto at the Staatstheater Braunschweig, as Irmentraud in Lortzing's "Der Waffenschmied" in 1951. By 1954 to 1955, she emerged as a dramatic soprano at the Hamburg State Opera, where she remained until the 1966/67 season.
Pilarczyk became a specialist in works of the twentieth century
, alongside Franz Crass and Helga Pilarczyk, among others. In 1966 she appeared as Brangäne in Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" at the Vienna State Opera. She performed Magdalene in Lisbon, and Kundry in Wagner's "Parsifal" at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin.
Schärtel was a voice teacher at the Musikhochschule Nürnberg. She died in her hometown and was buried on the Stadtfriedhof on 29 August 2012. 
Sources.
- Karl-Josef Kutsch and Leo Riemens: "Großes Sängerlexikon". Third edition.