Rosa Ethofer by Carl Bellach

ROSA ETHOFER
24 February 1877-3 September 1939
Austrian Contralto

Studued at Vienna Conservatory with Irene Schlemmer-Ambros .Debut 1898 at Leipzig and remained until 1900.Engaged at Opera Dessau 1900-1902 .In 1900 she performed at Wiemer and appeared at Bayreuth festival in 1901 as Siegrune In "Die Walkure" by Richard Wagner and also sang the 1st squire and a flower maiden in "Parsifal" by Richard Wagner. From 1902-1913 she was engaged at Karlsruhe and from 1903 she made guest appearance's at Wiesbaden and Mannheim, and in 1905 at the Vienna Volksoper and Kassel , 1906 at Cologne and Frankfurt and in 1908 she was at Stuttgart .In 1910 at Karlsruhe she sang Ute in the premiere of "Bandadietrich" by Siefried Wagner .Continued her career at Nuremburg from 1914-1922 while at Nuremburg she sang in the premiere of "Ein Fest auf Haderslev" by Heger ,From 1923-1924 sang at Brno and Rostock .Upon her retirement she taught singing in Nuremburg and later at Weimer . She was married to the baritone Eduard Schuller.