Barbara Kemp
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Barbara Kemp was a German operatic soprano. After a successful stage career, she retired to teach and also directed performances at the Berlin State Opera.
Barbara Kemp
Bayreuth Festival
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The Bayreuth Festival is a music festival held annually in Bayreuth, Germany, at which performances of stage works by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner are presented. Wagner himself conc
Barbara Kemp
…singing roles at local theatres and by 1913 she was employed at the Berlin Hofoper. She interpreted the role of Senta in Der fliegende Holländer at the Bayreuth Festival in 1914 and performed at the Vienna State Opera from 1924 to 1927. Kemp married opera composer and Berlin State Opera director Max von Schillings in…
Festspielhaus in Bayreuth, the festival's main venue, in 2006
Bayreuth Festspielhaus in 1882
Felix Mottl conducted Tristan und Isolde at Bayreuth in 1886.
Patronage certificate for funding the Bayreuth festival, issued 22 May 1922