Frida Leider

Frida Leider
A white woman with long light hair, wearing a loose robe and a circlet, hands clasped low in front of her
Frida Leider as Isolde, from a 1929 publication
Born(1888-04-18)18 April 1888
Berlin, German Empire
Died4 June 1975(1975-06-04) (aged 87)
West Berlin, West Germany[1]
OccupationOpera singer
SpouseRudolf Deman

Frida Leider (18 April 1888 – 4 June 1975)[2][3] was a German operatic soprano.

Leider was a dramatic soprano. Her most famous roles were Wagner's Isolde and Brünnhilde, Beethoven's Fidelio, Mozart's Donna Anna, and Verdi's Aida and Leonora. She made over 80 recordings, mainly for Polydor and His Master's Voice.

Life

Leider was born in Berlin, where she studied singing while working in a bank. Her first engagements led her to opera houses in Halle, Königsberg, and Rostock. After an engagement with the Hamburg State Opera in 1923, she was hired by the Berlin State Opera as first dramatic soprano. After her retirement from the stage in 1946, she remained there as the director and manager of a studio for the rising singers of the Berlin State Opera.

Leider made regular guest appearances for over 15 years at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, at La Scala in Milan, and at the State Operas of Vienna and Munich. She also made appearances at the Bayreuth Festival in the 1930s. In the 1920s, she alternated Wagnerian roles with Florence Austral at Covent Garden and the two recorded large parts of The Ring for His Master's Voice.

German singer, Frida Leider, record sleeve

Leider married the first concert master of the Berlin State Opera, Rudolf Deman. The couple had no children. She died in her home city of Berlin (in the then-West Berlin part).

Today the singer's estate is managed by the Frida-Leider-Gesellschaft, which is located in Berlin.

Autobiography

Leider's autobiography, Playing My Part, was translated into English by Charles Osborne, and published in London by Calder and Boyars in 1966.[4]

References

  1. ^ "FRIDA LEIDER, 87, SOPRANO, IS DEAD". The New York Times. 5 June 1975. Retrieved 25 October 2025.
  2. ^ "Leider, Frida". MGG Online. Retrieved 25 October 2025.
  3. ^ "Frida Leider". Munzinger Biographie (in German). Retrieved 25 October 2025.
  4. ^ Leider, Frida (2012-05-04). Playing My Part. London: Alma Classics Ltd. ISBN 978-0-7145-4380-2.
  • The information in this article is based on a translation of its German equivalent.

Further reading

  • Liese, Kirsten (2013). Wagnerheldinnen : berühmte Isolden und Brünnhilden aus einem Jahrhundert = Wagnerian heroines : a century of great Isoldes and Brünnhildes (in German). Berlin: Verlag Josefine Rosalski. ISBN 978-3-937881-62-1. OCLC 844683799.
  • Rieger, Eva (2017). Frida Leider - Sängerin im Zwiespalt ihrer Zeit (in German). Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag. ISBN 978-3-487-42188-9.

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