Liesel Schuch-Ganzel

Elisabeth Franziska von Schuch-Ganzel (12 December 1891 – 10 January 1990) also Liesel von Schuch, Liesel Schuch-Ganzel, née von Schuch) was a German coloratura soprano Born in Dresden, Schuch grew up with her parents, the conductor Ernst von Schuch and the opera singer Clementine von Schuch-Proska, in Niederlößnitz (today a district of Radebeul).

[1] She made her debut in La traviata as Violetta in Wiesbaden in 1913.

A coloratura soprano like her mother, she became a Royal Saxon Court Opera Singer, later a Dresden Kammersängerin, and was a permanent member of the Sächsische Staatsoper until 1935.

Until 1967, she worked as a teacher of singing at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden.

[3] In 1988, on the occasion of her 97th birthday, she was made an honorary citizen of Dresden.