Carrie Pringle [SEP] voice type
Carrie Pringle
Carrie Pringle (Caroline Mary Isabelle Pringle) (19 March 1859 – 12 November 1930) was an Austrian-born British soprano singer. She performed the role of one of the Flowermaidens in the 1882 premiere of Richard Wagner's "Parsifal" at the Bayreuth Festival. Unproven rumours associate Wagner's supposed infatuation with Pringle with the circumstances of his death in Venice in 1883.
Life.
Carrie Pringle was born in Linz, the daughter of Basil Pringle, a landowner and amateur violinist, and Isabella,
2007 opera about Wagner's last day, "Wagner Dream", which assumes that Wagner and Pringle had an affair, Carrie Pringle appears onstage in a spoken role.
Sources.
- Baker, John A. (2008). "Wagner and Venice". Rochester: University of Rochester Press. .
- Cormack, David (2005). "Wir welken und sterben dahinnen": Carrie Pringle and the Solo Flowermaidens of 1882", in "Musical Times", vol. 146 no. 1890 (Spring