Tiefland (opera)
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Tiefland is an opera in a prologue and two acts by Eugen d'Albert, to a libretto in German by Rudolf Lothar. Based on the 1896 Catalan play Terra baixa by Àngel Guimerà, Tiefland was d'Albert's sevent
Neues Deutsches Theater in Prague
Baritone Joseph Schwarz as Sebastiano in Tiefland. (c. 1916)
Ángel Guimerá, author of the play that inspired the librettist
Leni Riefenstahl
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Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl was a German filmmaker, photographer, and actress. She is considered one of the most controversial personalities in film history. Regarded by many critics as an
Tiefland (opera)
…remained a favourite role, which he performed widely until 1940 in Switzerland. The best-known film adaptation of the opera was by the German director Leni Riefenstahl, with Riefenstahl herself playing Marta. The film, begun in 1940, but not released until 1954, used Roma slave labor from a German transportation camp…
Riefenstahl in 1935
Riefenstahl (right) as a topless "Roman Bath" extra in Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit (1925)
Riefenstahl, 1927, by Mario von Bucovich
Riefenstahl stands near Heinrich Himmler while instructing her camera crew at Nuremberg, 1934.