Isabel Strauss
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Isabel Strauss [Strauß] (1928-1973) was a German operatic soprano. She appeared in Munich, Bern, Amsterdam, and Brussels, as well as singing Gutrune in Wieland Wagner's 1963 production of Götterdämmerung, in Cologne. Also in 1963, she portrayed Marta in a film of Tiefland.
Following a 1973 performance of Götterdämmerung, she was a victim of a double-suicide, with the conductor Fritz Janota, in a forest near Bern.
Discography[]
- d'Albert: Tiefland (Schock; Zanotelli, 1963) Eurodisc
- Berg: Wozzeck (Berry; Boulez, 1966) Sony
External links[]
References[]
- Liner notes to Sony recording of Wozzeck.
Categories:
- 1928 births
- 1973 suicides
- German operatic sopranos
- 20th-century German opera singers
- 20th-century German women singers
- 20th-century women opera singers
- Joint suicides
- Suicides in Germany
- Opera biography stubs