Wilma Lipp ([vɪlma lɪp]; 26 April 1925 – 26 January 2019)[1] was an Austrian operatic soprano and academic voice teacher.
Lipp studied in Vienna with Friedel Sindel, Paola Novikova,[2] Anna Bahr-Mildenburg and Alfred Jerger,[3] and also with Toti Dal Monte in Milan.
[4][7] Lipp possessed a pure, supple high-soprano voice with an accurate coloratura technique and a so-called "white" tone.
Her career, which began in soubrette and high coloratura roles, later progressed to more lyrical ones, such as Ilia in Mozart's Idomeneo, Countess Almaviva in his Figaro, Donna Elvira in his Don Giovanni, Pamina in his Die Zauberflöte, Eva in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Musetta in Puccini's La bohème, and the title roles of Flotow's Martha and Verdi's La traviata, among others.
[2][6] She is well represented in live recordings and radio broadcasts such as Musetta, Nanetta, Martha, the title role in Donizetti's La fille du régiment, Marguerite in Gounod's Faust, and many masses and oratorios.
She has also appeared on TV (Live broadcast of Die Zauberflöte) and in films such as Unsterblicher Mozart (1954), The House of Three Girls (1958), The Cardinal (1963) and The Salzburg Festival (Tony Palmer, 2006).