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Elisabeth
Schwarzkopf was a highly stunning, tiny, red-headed soprano
-- in fact, at one of her recitals, when the audience saw how glamorously
decked-to-the-nines Schwarzkopf was, an opera novice in the crowd
turned to her friend and said, "All that, and she can sing,
too?" She was great friends with Callas
and was married to Walter Legge (a smart move, since Legge was the head
of Angel/EMI records). La Schwarzkopf excelled not only in the
operas of Mozart and Richard Strauss (in her day, you would be
hard-pressed to find a better Donna Elvira or Marschallin), but was also
a celebrated interpreter in the world of lieder, her only rival
in the domain of Schubert and Schumann being baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. |
