Maria Stader

Blessed having a silvery lyric soprano, true in timbre and beautifully qualified, Maria Stader was struggling to benefit from the opera job she deserved. Just 4’9″ high, she was considered too diminutive to be always a viable number on-stage. Therefore, she was limited to documenting congenial opera tasks and to producing concert looks. Despite what some may have seen as a setback, she accomplished genuine superstar and became an designer well-liked by many first-rank conductors. Orphaned in Hungary during WWI, Stader was brought by the International Crimson Mix to Switzerland, where she was used by fisherman Hans Stader. She started her music teaching near her house within the shores of Lake Constance. Later on, she researched with Hans Keller in Karlsruhe, Germany, using the popular dramatic soprano Giannina Arangi-Lombardi in Milan and with Therese Schnabel in NY. She attracted worldwide interest when she earned first reward for performing in the Concourse International d’Execution Musicale in Geneva in 1939. After WWII, Stader trained in the Musikacademie in Zurich while at exactly the same time releasing a concert profession. Named an exemplary Mozart vocalist, she was noticed in other areas of European countries, Africa and china and taiwan, and eventually, in america. A uncommon opera appearance shown her as the Queen of the night time at Covent Backyard through the 1949-1950 time of year. Among four sopranos to sing the part in that creation, Stader didn’t attract sufficient focus on result in reengagement. Her 1st American appearances occurred in 1954 when she sang with the brand new York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, as well as the Cleveland Orchestra. In 1956, she sang some concert shows in Israel of both Lucia di Lammermoor and Judas Maccabaeus under conductor Ferenc Fricsay. Among Stader’s recordings, her Konstanze, Pamina, and Marzelline are appealing realizations. In the concert repertory, recordings from the Dvorák Requiem, many Mozart public, and Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate are suitable types of her artwork. Before her pension in 1969, Stader released a text over the functionality of Bach arias. During her profession, she was honored with many awards, included in this the Lilli Lehmann Medal, the Sterling silver Mozart Medal (Town of Salzburg), as well as the Austrian Purchase of Merit.