Mizzi Günther
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Mizzi Günther (8 February 1879 – 18 March 1961) was a Bohemian-Viennese operetta soprano.
Günther was born in Warnsdorf, Bohemia (now the Czech Republic). Her debut was in 1897 in Hermannstadt, now Sibiu, the part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire now in Romania. She achieved stardom in Vienna in 1901 as O Mimosa San in The Geisha. She subsequently sang in England, France and Russia.
She created the title roles of Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow in 1905 and Leo Fall's Die Dollarprinzessin (1907), also appearing in the premieres of Fall's Template:Interlanguage link multi (1908) and Emmerich Kálmán's Der kleine König (1912) and Die Csárdásfürstin (1915).
She died in Vienna, Austria, and is buried on the Zentralfriedhof.
Recordings
From 1903 to 1911, Günther recorded ten 78 rpm sides of music from The Merry Widow, Heinrich Reinhardt's Der liebe Schatz, Leo Ascher's Vergeltsgott and Franz Lehár's Template:Interlanguage link multi.
Sources
- Steane, J. B. (1992), "Günther, Mizzi" in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London) Template:ISBN
External links
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- 1879 births
- 1961 deaths
- People from Varnsdorf
- Austrian operatic sopranos
- Burials at the Vienna Central Cemetery
- Austrian people of German Bohemian descent
- 19th-century Austrian women opera singers
- 20th-century Austrian women opera singers
- Singers from Austria-Hungary