Aenne Michalsky

At the Salzburg Festival she made her debut as Second Lady in The Magic Flute from 1927 to 1930/1928 and in 1933 as Second Servant in the Die Frau ohne Schatten, but also sang the maid Marianne Leitmetzerin in the Rosenkavalier every year from 1932 to 1939 and again from 1938 to 1944/1941.

She could also be seen and heard in Salzburg as Zerlina in Don Giovanni and as Barbarina in The Marriage of Figaro, and in smaller roles in operas by Gluck, Strauss and Weber.

[1] She sang under the direction of a number of renowned conductors, including Wilhelm Furtwängler, Robert Heger, Hans Knappertsbusch, Clemens Krauss, Dimitri Mitropoulos and Bruno Walter.

For example, in 1931 she took over soprano roles in a Radio Verkehrs AG [de]-concert with works by Brahms, Bruckner and Wolf, conducted by Rudolf Nilius,[2] and in G. Mahler's Symphony No.

[4] G. Bizet: Alexandre Borodin: E. d’Albert: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Engelbert Humperdinck: Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Franz Lehár: Leoncavallo: A. Lortzing: P. Mascagni: Mozart: Nicolai: G. Puccini: G. Rossini: Bedřich Smetana: Johann Strauß: R. Strauss: Suppé: G. Verdi: R. Wagner: Carl Maria von Weber: Wolf-Ferrari: