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Hilde Zadek
German operatic soprano (1917–2019)
Hildegard Zadek (15 December 1917 – 21 February 2019)[2] was a German operatic soprano. She was Kammersängerin at the Vienna State Opera and performed internationally.
Early life
Zadek, the oldest of three daughters of Elizabeth (Freundlich) and Alex Zadek, was born in Bromberg, Province of Posen, on 15 December 1917.[3] After her hometown became Polish after World War I, her parents moved to Stettin in 1920,[4] where Zadek spent her youth.
However, as a Jew she was forced to leave Germany in 1934 and settled in then Palestine, where she worked as a nurse and shoe saleswoman in Jerusalem, while studying voice with Rose Pauly. In 1945, she returned to Europe and studied at the Zurich Conservatory with Ria Ginster.[5]
Life and career
She made her operatic debut on 3 February 1947 at the Vienna State Opera in the title role of Verdi's Aida to great acclaim; she remained with this