Erna Berger; "LIEDERABEND"; Various Composers

Erna Berger---soprano
Sebastian Peschko---piano
1962
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"A lui donai"l IL FLAMINIO; Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
"Amarilli, mia bella"; Giulio Caccini
"Meco verrai su quella"; ROSelINDA; ; Francesco Maria Veracini:
"La Violetta"; Alessandro Scarlatti
"Trauer-Music"; Georg Phillip Telemann
"Where'er you walk" SEMELE; George Frideric Handel
"Midst silent shades"Johann Christian
"Bachianas Brasilieras Nr. 5"; Heitor Villa-Lobos
"Einem Bach, der fließt"; Die Pilger von Mekka)III.; Christoph Willibald Gluck
"Ridente la calma", Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"Abendempfindung"; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Oiseaux, si tous les ans", Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Der Zauberer", Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"An die untergehende Sonne", Franz Schubert
Am Grabe Anselmos", Franz Schubert
"Schäfers Klagelied", Franz Schubert
"Im Abendrot", Franz Schubert
""Suleika I"; Franz Schubert
"Suleika II" Franz Schubert
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"Erna Berger (19 October 1900 – 14 June 1990) was a German lyric coloratura soprano. She was best known for roles such as Queen of the Night and Konstanze.

Career

Commemorative stele of Erna Berger in Dresden-Cossebaude
Born in Dresden, Germany, Berger spent some years as a child in India and in Paraguay where the family lived in a rainforest.[1] She worked as a governess, taking piano and singing lessons before borrowing enough money for the trip back to Germany.[2]

At age 26, she secured a position as a soubrette soprano at the Semperoper in Dresden,[3] and had her first success as Hannele in Paul Graener's opera Hanneles Himmelfahrt, based on Gerhart Hauptmann's play The Assumption of Hannele.[4] She later held leading positions at the Vienna State Opera, the Berlin State Opera, and the Deutsche Oper Berlin. She gave concerts in Japan, the United States, and Australia.[3]

Her discography features complete recordings of Die Zauberflöte (as the Queen of Night, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham, 1937–38, for EMI), and Rigoletto, with Jan Peerce and Leonard Warren, conducted by Renato Cellini (1950) which was the first complete opera recording (with a few minor cuts) made in the United States by RCA Victor for commercial release on the then-new LP format.[citation needed]

Erna Berger was a member of the Berlin State Opera from 1934 to 1946. She is listed on 'Gottbegnadeten-Liste [God's Gifted List]' by Goebbels as an important artist of the Nazi state.[5]

Berger made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1949.[6] In October 1949, May and June 1951, she sang three Gildas (Rigoletto) at Covent Garden, London. During the 1949/50 and 1950/51 seasons, she appeared in Der Rosenkavalier (opposite Eleanor Steber and Risë Stevens, conducted by Fritz Reiner and directed by Herbert Graf), Rigoletto (with Warren, then Enzo Mascherini), Die Zauberflöte, and Il barbiere di Siviglia (with Giuseppe Valdengo). She also sang Woglinde and the Waldvogel in Der Ring des Nibelungen, with Kirsten Flagstad and Helen Traubel alternating as Brünnhilde.[citation needed]

She sang the role of Zerlina in the 1954 Salzburg Festival production of Don Giovanni conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler, filmed by Paul Czinner and released on DVD by Deutsche Grammophon.[7] As an interpreter of Lieder, she often performed with the German pianist Sebastian Peschko.

Later years and death
Despite advancing years Berger's voice did not lose its purity, range and beautiful tone. Though she retired from the operatic stage in 1955, she continued to sing in recitals well into her 60s, giving her last song recital in Munich in 1968.[8] In 1980, to celebrate her eightieth birthday, she "spontaneously sang over live German television Schubert's 'Im Abendroth' with moving devotion and a fine, warm quality."[9]

Between 1960 and 1971 Berger taught at Hamburg and Essen. She was highly respected by her colleagues; as Furtwängler said: ‘She is music, through and through…the best’.[8] She died in Essen in 1990, aged 89. She was buried at the "; Wikipedia

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