Nanette Schechner

Her talent was soon noticed, so that the director of the Italian court opera gave her to the singing institute of Ferdinando Orlandi for further training.

When the celebrated contralto Giuseppina Grassini (1773 in Varese – 1850 in Milan) wanted to appear in the opera Gli Orazi e i Curiazi by Domenico Cimarosa in Munich at the beginning of the 1820s, only Schechner could be entrusted with the portrayal of Curiazio.

Orlandi henceforth paid special attention to the Schechner and taught her the solfeggio, while Domenico Ronconi rehearsed roles with her.

She made her debut as Emmeline in Die Schweizer Familie at the Kärntnertortheater with outstanding success, and was compared to the young Anna Milder.

Schechner was engaged to the singer Ludwig Cramolini in Vienna in 1826/27 and married the lithographer and painter Carl Waagen on 17 October 1831 and now performed as Schechner-Waagen.