Hildegard Hillebrecht Explained

Hildegard Hillebrecht (26 November 1925 – 7 October 2018) was a German operatic soprano.^[1]

Career

Born in Hanover, Hillebrecht studied singing after attending medical school and made her in the role of Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore.^[2] She sang at the Zürich Opera House from 1952-1954, in Düsseldorf from 1954 to 1959 and at the Bayerische Staatsoper from 1961. She performed regularly at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and participated in many festivals including Salzburg and Munich.^{[3] [4]}

Among Hillebrecht's commercial recordings are Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos (with Jess Thomas, conducted by Karl Böhm, 1969) and Busoni's Doktor Faust (with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and William Cochran, 1969), both on Deutsche Grammophon.

Commercial videography

• Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos (Grist, Jurinac, Thomas; Böhm, Rennert, 1965) [live]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Hildegard Hillebrecht. 2018-10-15. Opera Lounge. de-DE. 2019-01-18.
2. Web site: Biography. operissimo.com. 2019-01-18. 2016-12-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20161228195932/http://hosting.operissimo.com/triboni/exec?method=com.operissimo.artist.webDisplay&id=ffcyoieagxaaaaaboxba&xsl=webDisplay. dead.
3. Web site: Hildegard Hillebrecht - Biografie WHO'S WHO. www.whoswho.de. 2019-01-18.
4. Web site: Hillebrecht, Hildegard (1927), Sopranistin BMLO. bmlo.de. 2019-01-18.