Hanne-Lore Kuhse
[1] Born in Schwaan, Kuhse first studied singing with a private teacher in Rostock.
[2] In 1951 she made her debut at the Theater Gera [de] as Leonore in Beethoven's Fidelio.
In 1973 she received a visiting professorship at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar.
Her students included mezzo-soprano Annette Markert and baritone Erwin Noack.
She sang almost all roles in dramatic soprano: Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Leonore in Fidelio, Amelia in Un ballo in maschera and Lady Macbeth in Verdi's Macbeth, Puccini's Tosca, Senta in Der fliegende Holländer, Venus in Tannhäuser and Brünnhilde in Der Ring des Nibelungen.
Plaque at the house in Schwerin, where the singer lived.