Hildegard Hillebrecht (26 November 1925 – 7 October 2018) was a German operatic soprano.[1]

Career

Born in Hanover, Hillebrecht studied singing after attending medical school and made her in the role of Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore.[2] She sang at the Zürich Opera House from 1952-1954, in Düsseldorf from 1954 to 1959 and at the Bayerische Staatsoper from 1961. She performed regularly at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and participated in many festivals including Salzburg and Munich.[3][4]

Among Hillebrecht's commercial recordings are Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos (with Jess Thomas, conducted by Karl Böhm, 1969) and Busoni's Doktor Faust (with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and William Cochran, 1969), both on Deutsche Grammophon.

Commercial videography

  • Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos (Grist, Jurinac, Thomas; Böhm, Rennert, 1965) [live]

References

  1. ↑ "Hildegard Hillebrecht". Opera Lounge (in German). 2018-10-15. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  2. ↑ "Biography". operissimo.com. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  3. ↑ "Hildegard Hillebrecht - Biografie WHO'S WHO". www.whoswho.de. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  4. ↑ "Hillebrecht, Hildegard (1927), Sopranistin BMLO". bmlo.de. Retrieved 2019-01-18.


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