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unbelievably energetic lady. Mama Schwarz missed no performance of her daughter. She sat in the middle of the parquet and influenced the audience's applause particularly loudly. While doing so she would turn left and right claiming loudly: "Charming, magnificent! Who is this God-gifted singer?". One time an acquaintance sat behind, unseen by her. He bent forward and said for everyone to overhear: "But, gnädige Frau, surely
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Margarete Slezak recounts their meeting: "I paid Vera Schwarz a visit, and asked her to test my voice. Frau Schwarz found it would be worthwhile to train my voice, and promised me, while keeping this strictly secret from my family, to give me lessons. She lived with her mother, a delicate yet
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Having Jewish paternal grandparents, Schwarz was forced to leave Germany in 1933, singing in Vienna, giving a world premiere of a work by Salmhofer in 1935, and appearing as late as 1938 with Tauber in Lehar's
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From 1929 to 1933 Schwarz was a member of the Metropol-Theater Berlin ensemble, returning in 1931 to 1933 to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. She became well known as
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Schwarz returned to Vienna in 1948, teaching and giving masterclasses in the Salzburg Mozarteum. She died in Vienna in 1964 and was cremated at
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in April 1930, both conducted by the composer. She and Tauber appeared, again under the composer's baton, in the October 1929 premiere of
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Verstummte Stimmen. Die Vertreibung der Juden" und politisch Untragbaren" aus den Dresdner Theatern 1933 bis 1945
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She appeared in the opera houses of Amsterdam, Budapest, London, Munich, and Paris, where she performed
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From 1921 to 1930 Schwarz appeared often as a guest in Vienna, performing the title roles of
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in 1928 at the Opéra-Comique Paris. In 1929 she sang Octavian in
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in May 1921, and were often to appear together in operas such as
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in 1914. From 1918 to 1922 she was an ensemble member of the
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Opening Windows: Confessions of a Canadian Vocal Coach
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In 2011, a street in Vienna's 23rd district was named
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soprano
Richard Tauber
Zagreb
David Schwarz
Theater an der Wien
Grazer Oper
Johann Strauss Theater
Karlsbad
Hamburger Stadttheater
Staatsoper Unter den Linden
Tosca
Carmen
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Die Walküre
The Marriage of Figaro
La Juive
Leo Slezak
Walter Slezak
Richard Tauber
Deutsches Künstlertheater
de
Theater des Westens
Das Land des Lächelns
Metropol Theater
Carmen
Berliner Staatsoper
Die Tote Stadt
Un Ballo in Maschera
Tosca

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