Frieda Hempel

as Benjamin "Joseph in Egypt" by Méhul

FRIEDA HEMPEL
1885-1955
German Soprano
Studied at Leipzig and then Berlin with Nicklass-Kempner .Made early appearances at Brelau singing Violetta ,Queen of the Night and Rosina.Made her debut at Schwerin in 1905 and remained until 1907 singing Gilda , Leonora (Il Trovatore) .By request of Kaiser Wilhelm II she made her Berlin debut 1905 as Frau Fluth (in Nicolai's Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor). She sang at the Royal Court Opera, Berlin, from 1907 to 1912, where she was also admired as Lucia, Marguerite de Valois and Marie.At the Covent Garden, London in 1907 as Bastienne, in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel, as Eva and Elsa and again as Frau Fluth . In 1912 she made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York as Marguerite de Valois. She sang regularly in New York thereafter into the 1920s.After 1919 she sang mostly recitals and made her last appearance at New York Town Hall in 1951