Meta Seinemeyer Sings from Operettas by Puccini, Verdi, Giordano & Wagner

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Release Date: 8th Feb 2006
Catalogue No: HAEN94511
Label: Hänssler
Series: Living Voices
Length: 75 minutes

Puccini: Tosca, S. 69, Tosca, Act II

Work length6:20

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Meta Seinemeyer
Staatskapelle Berlin, Studio chorus
Frieder Weissmann

Vissi d'arte

Track length3:18

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A te quest'inno (Singt vereint in vollen Choren), "Cantata"

Track length3:02

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Puccini: Madama Butterfly, Act I

Work length4:05

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Meta Seinemeyer
Studio chorus, Staatskapelle Berlin
Frieder Weissmann

Ancora un passo or via

Track length4:05

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Puccini: Madama Butterfly, Act II

Work length11:34

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Meta Seinemeyer, Helen Jung
Staatskapelle Berlin
Frieder Weissmann

Un bel di vedremo

Track length4:02

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Das ist sicher ein Kriegsschiff (una nave di guerra)

Track length7:32

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Puccini: Don Carlo, Act V

Work length8:13

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Meta Seinemeyer
Staatskapelle Berlin
Frieder Weissmann

Tu che la vanita

Track length8:13

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Verdi: La forza del destino, Act II

Work length9:32

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Meta Seinemeyer, Ivar Andresen
Studio chorus, Staatskapelle Berlin
Frieder Weissmann

Son giunta, grazie o Dio

Track length6:51

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Du wirst den Schritt beim Morgenrot (Sull'alba il piede all'eremo)

Track length2:41

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Verdi: La forza del destino, Act IV

Work length3:57

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Meta Seinemeyer
Staatskapelle Berlin
Frieder Weissmann

Pace, pace, mio Dio

Track length3:57

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Verdi: Otello, Act I

Work length8:13

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Meta Seinemeyer, Tino Pattiera
Staatskapelle Berlin
Frieder Weissmann

Gia nella notte densa

Track length8:13

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Giordano, U: Andrea Chénier, Andrea Chenier, Act III

Work length3:42

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Meta Seinemeyer
Staatskapelle Berlin
Frieder Weissmann

La mamma morta

Track length3:42

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Giordano, U: Andrea Chénier, Andrea Chenier, Act IV

Work length6:25

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Meta Seinemeyer, Tino Pattiera
Staatskapelle Berlin
Frieder Weissmann

Du kommst daher (Vicino a te s'acqueta) [Sung in German]

Track length6:25

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Wagner: Die Walküre, WWV 86B, Die Walküre, Act I

Work length13:37

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Meta Seinemeyer, Curt Taucher
Staatskapelle Berlin
Frieder Weissmann

Der Manner Sippe - Wintersturme wichen dem Wonnemond - Du bist der Lenz

Track length13:37

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Sadly ignored following her premature death, Meta Seinemeyer was never as well known as Lotte Lehmann or Rosa Ponselle, even in connoisseurs’ and collectors’ circles. In the meantime, Meta Seinemeyer, who died at the age of thirty-three, just as her international career was beginning, is spoken of in the same breath as those legendary singers. Famed record producer Walter Legge summed up very well what was unique about Seinemeyer: a German voice with an Italian sound. And as the present recordings of duets from Madame Butterfly and La Forza del Destino show, Seinemeyer even sounded Italian when she sang in German!

Meta Seinemeyer was born on September 5, 1895 in Berlin, where her father was a detective superintendent. Her voice was trained by Nikolaus Rothmühl and Ernst Grenzebach. She made her debut in 1918 as Eurydice in Gluck’s Orpheus at the German Opera in Charlottenburg, Berlin, where she remained for the following seven years. After a guest performance in Dresden (as Marguerite in Gounod’s Faust), Fritz Busch engaged her at the Semperoper as the successor of Elisabeth Rethberg, who had been enticed away by the Metropolitan Opera. In Seinemeyer Busch had found the ideal singer for the Verdi revival he had initiated. In 1925 she sang the part of the Duchess of Parma in the premiere of Busoni’s Doktor Faust and in 1926 excelled in the Dresden first performance of Giordano’s Andrea Chénier, in the same year appearing for the first time at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires (as Agathe, Eva and Elisabeth). She made her debut at the Vienna Staatsoper in 1927 and at the Covent Garden Opera in London in 1929.The first symptoms of her illness made themselves felt immediately after the London appearance. Meta Seinemeyer died of leukaemia on July 19, 1929, just weeks before her thirty-fourth birthday.

Original Recordings 1926 - 1929

Meta Seinemeyer Sings from Operettas by Puccini, Verdi, Giordano & Wagner

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