Irene Abendroth
Austrian opera singer

Irene Abendroth

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Austrian opera singer
Gender:
Female
Places:
Austria
Is:
SingerOpera singerEducatorMusicianMusic educator
Work field:
AcademiaMusic
Birth:
14 July 1872(Lviv, Lwów Land, Ruthenian Voivodeship, Ukraine)
Death:
1 September 1932(Weidling, Klosterneuburg, Wien-Umgebung District, Austria)
Star sign:
Cancer
Genres:
Opera
Instruments:
Voice
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Irene Abendroth, born as Irene Thaller von Draga (14 July 1872 – 1 September 1932) was an Austrian-Polish coloratura soprano singer. She was a pupil of Frau Wilczek. She was a member of the Vienna court opera in 1889, and she sang in Riga and Munich, and again in Vienna (1894-99). She was engaged from 1899 to 1908 at the Royal Opera in Dresden.

Her debut in March 1889 at "barely seventeen" as La sonnambula in Vienna, was critiqued as "extraordinary brilliancy of execution, in the best Italian manner, in smooth as well in staccato passages ...her voice is very thin" and she was given a distinctly favorable reception by the audience. Following this performance, the Imperial Opera put "the youthful bravura singer" on trial for one year.

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