1922 ELSA ALSEN Berlin BRUNHILDE's IMMOLATION SCENE 2xRec Starke Scheite Moerike

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A FESTIVAL OF GERMAN SINGERS

Elsa Alsen, born 1880 in today Poland into a French-Norwegian family, was a renowned Lieder and Opera singer in Germany. Since 1924 star at the Chicago,San Francisco and Philadelphia opera houses.

She is best known as a Song recitalist on record, but she sang all the dramatic soprano roles in Germany and in the US.

Here in a rare acoustic recording from her Berlin days:

ELSA ALSEN Berlin BRUNHILDE's IMMOLATION SCENE fr Goetterdaemmerung

Eduard Moerike Cond the Berlin State Opera Orch

Starke Scheite/ Wisst Ihr wie das ward

Mein Erbe Nun/ Grane mein Ross

2x12" US Odeon pressing

 Condition: VERY GOOD PLUS PLUS, unworn rare fine scratches. both records are noticeably DISHED, they wobble slightly during play, but does not affect music, plays very quiet w occ ticks and pops

Alsen, Elsa, Sopran, * 7.4.1880 Obra (West-Poland), å 31.1.1975 New York; Her father was a Norwegian, his mother Franz ÷ sin. She came to Breslau at the age of 17 and studied at Jetka Finkenstein. Konzertdebnt as an altist in 1900. 1902 Bnhnendebnt at the Stadttheater of Heidelberg as Azucena in + Troubadour½. She sang 1904-06 in Heidelberg, 1906-09 at the Stadttheater of Freiburg i. Br., Then 1909-11 at the Stadttheater von Krefeld, 1911-13 at the Stadttheater von Nnrnberg, 1913-15 at the Court Theater Hannover, 1916-18 at the Stadttheater von Chemnitz, where she took the transition to the highly dramatic vocal fold. 1018-22 she was engaged at the Landestheater of Braunschweig, 1922-23 at the StSdtischen Oper Berlin. She was a guest at the leading German stage, and in 1923 at the Vienna State Opera. 1923-24 North American tour with the German Opera Company. On this tour, she sang Venus in the Tannhsuser, the Brnnnhilde in the Nibelungenring, the Leonore in the Fidelio, and the Isolde in the Tristan. 1925-28 and again in 1934 she was guest at the Chicago Opera, among others. As Martha in + Tiefland½ by E. d'Albert, as Isolde and as Octavian in the + Rosenkavalier. She stayed in the USA and sang at the operas of Philadelphia, San Francisco (1927) and Hollywood. As late as 1937 she appeared in Detroit as Isolde. Other artists were the Carmen, the Nancy in Flotows + Martha, the Emilia in Verdis + Othello, the Fricka in the Rheingold, the Ortrud in the Lohengrin, and the Hilde in the Arms of Heinrich Pfitzner. In 1930 she appeared in the film The Rogue Song (together with Lawrence Tibbett). She lived as a PSDagogin in New York. - Great, dramatic voice, especially as a Wagner interpreter.

Acoustic opera records on Odeon-Parlophon, electric song recordings on American. Columbia (1928).

[Supplement] Alsen, Elsa; She was engaged in Braunschweig in 1918-22. - Lit: E. Vesper: Elsa Alsen (in + Record Collector, 1963-64).

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