Ilse Hollweg [SEP] voice type
Ilse Hollweg
Ilse Hollweg (23 February 1922 – 9 February 1990) was a German operatic coloratura soprano. A member of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, she appeared at major European opera houses and festivals including the Bayreuth Festival and the Glyndebourne Festival.
Career.
Born in Solingen, Hollweg studied voice at the Musikhochschule Köln with Gertrude Förstel. She sang the solo in "Ein deutsches Requiem" by Brahms already in 1939. She made her debut in 1943 at the Theater Saarbrücken as Blonde in Mozart's "Die
Paris, has been regarded as one of her best achievements.
After retiring from the stage, she was a voice teacher at the Musikhochschule Köln. One of her students was Ilse Hollweg.
Literature.
- : "Großes biographisches Lexikon der Deutschen Bühne im XIX. Jahrhundert." Verlag von Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 267f.
External links.
- Gertrud Förstel image in Sammlung Manskopf of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
- Förstel, Gertrude (1880-1950