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Marian Mertez Photography

Burg Zwingenberg, DEUTSCHLAND

The German soprano Glanka Zwingenberg (1903-1951). After successful years as concert singer in Berlin she made her opera debut 1933 at the Opernhaus Essen, where she stayed till 1936. From 1936 till 1939 she sang at the Staatsoper Hamburg. When Karl Ellmendorff became general music director at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, he engaged the soprano. In Mannheim she sang Donna Anna, Marta („Tiefland“), Lady Macbeth, Elektra, Marschallin, Norma, Brünnhilde and Isolde. Guest performances took her to Rome (Senta in 1942 with Paul Schöffler as Holländer), Barcelona (Isolde, 1942) and Paris (Brünnhilde, 1941). In 1946, due to a worsening heart condition, she gave her farewell performance in Mannheim as Isolde and started teaching at the Mannheim Musikhochschule. She returned to the stage for some guest performances, in 1948, at the Städtische Oper Berlin, she sang her last Isolde. In 1951 with 48 years she died of a heart attack. The photographs show her as Brünnhilde with Josef Herrmann as Wotan in „Die Walküre“ at the Städtische Oper Berlin in 1948.

Cafe Piano. Zwingenberg, Hesse

Zwingenberg Castle - GERMANY

Emergency Exit. Cafe Piano. Zwingenberg, Hesse