Therese Malten by Hoffert

Malten as Brunhilde

THERESE MALTEN
(Therese Müller)
(21 June 1855 – 2 January 1930)
German dramatic soprano.

Studied with Gustav Engel in Berlin.Début in 1873 in Dresden as Pamina in "The Magic Flute". In 1882 Richard Wagner selected her as the original Kundry in Parsifal. From that time on till her retirement in 1903, she remained a member of the Dresden Opera, with frequent leaves of absence for appearances in the principal European opera houses . She Began in the lyric repertoire and mainly in Italian opera, From 1881 she turned the Wagner singing and was one of the greatest Wagnerian singers of her generation. In 1874, she was at Dresden in the world premiere of "The Folkunger" by Kretschmar . 1882, she sang at the Bayreuth Festival in the first "Parsifal" performances alternating with Amalie Materna and Marianne Brandt the role of Kundry. By 1894, she performed at the Bayreuth Festival, Isolde "Tristan & Isolde " 1886 at he first performance of Wagner's opera admired in Bayreuth. She appeared in London in the roles appeared as Elsa in "Lohengrin", as Elisabeth in "Tannhäuser", as Eva in "Die Meistersinger" and as Leonore in Beethoven's "Fidelio" . In 1893 she starred in the world premiere of "Evanthia" by Paul Umlauff at the court theater of Gotha. Her repertoire included outside the Wagner repertoire Armida Gluck's "Iphigenia in Tauris", Leonore in "Fidelio", Genoveva in the opera by R. Schumann,"The Queen of Sheba" by Goldmark, the title role in of Sheba by Goldmark, the title role in "Jessonda" by L.Spohr and Leonore in "Troubadour".