ソプラノ歌手： エリザベート・グリュンマー Elisabeth Grümmer
Elisabeth Schilz Grümmer (31 March 1911 - 6 November 1986) was a German soprano. She has been described as "a singer blessed with elegant musicality, warm-hearted sincerity, and a voice of exceptional beauty".
Life
Grummer was born at Niederjeutz, near Diedenhofen, Alsace-Lorraine (later Yutz; now Thionville, France) to German parents. In 1918, her family was expelled from Lorraine, and they settled in Meiningen, where she studied theater and made her stage debut as Klarchen in Goethe's Egmont.
Grummer married the concertmaster of the theater orchestra, Detlev Grummer, and became a mother. The family moved to Aachen, where they met Herbert von Karajan under whose encouragement Grummer made her operatic debut in 1940. She went on from the Aachen to perform in Duisburg and Prague.
Her husband was killed in a bombing in the war. After the war, she settled in Berlin, singing at the Stadtische Oper Berlin. She performed in the major opera houses in Europe and the United States, restricting herself to a small number of roles, primarily sung in German. She was also active in song recitals and concert performances, particularly of Brahms' German Requiem.
The Kammersangerin became a professor at the Berlin Musikhochschule.
Grummer died in Warendorf, Westphalia on 6 November 1986.
Work and critical reception
Grummer made her debut in Aachen singing the role of First Flowermaiden in a 1940 performance of Wagner's Parsifal.
Grummer was acclaimed both as an opera singer and as a lieder interpreter. The book, The Grove Book of Opera Singers, referred to her "beautiful voice, clarity of diction and innate musicianship" evidenced by her legacy on record.
She appeared in two videotaped performances as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, one conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler and the other in German translation conducted by Ferenc Fricsay.