Elisabeth Rethberg was a German operatic spinto soprano singer who was active from the period of the First World War through the early 1940s. After Richard Strauss assigned the role of the Empress in
Rethberg's birthplace in Schwarzenberg
Rethberg and Strauss at the reception after the premiere of Die ägyptische Helena in 1928
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Die ägyptische Helena, Op. 75, is an opera in two acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It premiered at the Dresden Semperoper on 6 June 1928. Strauss had written the
The composer in 1922 (Photographer: Ferdinand Schmutzer)
Strauss and Busch in Dresden, 1928