Wilma Lipp ([vɪlma lɪp]; 26 April 1925 – 26 January 2019) was an Austrian operatic soprano and academic voice teacher. A long-time member of the Vienna State Opera, she was particularly associated with the role of the Queen of the Night in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, a role she performed internationally more than 400 times. She was awarded the title Kammersängerin at age 28, and was an honorary member of the Vienna State Opera, among other honours.
Wilma Lipp ([vɪlma lɪp]; 26 April 1925 – 26 January 2019) was an Austrian operatic soprano and academic voice teacher. A long-time member of the Vienna State Opera, she was particularly associated with the role of the Queen of the Night in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, a role she performed internationally more than 400 times. She was awarded the title Kammersängerin at age 28, and was an honorary member of the Vienna State Opera, among other honours.
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R.I.P Wilma
Career Lipp studied in Vienna with Friedel Sindel, Paola Novikova, Anna Bahr-Mildenburg and Alfred Jerger, and also with Toti Dal Monte in Milan. She made her stage debut in Vienna as Rosina in Rossini's The Barber of Seville in 1943 in an open-air performance, and joined the Vienna State Opera in 1945. She won international attention as the Queen of the Night in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte in a 1948 performance conducted by Josef Krips. She sang the role then also at La Scala in Milan, at the Paris Opéra, in Hamburg and in Brussels, among others. In 1948, she appeared at the Salzburg Festival as Konstanze in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail. Her early roles in Vienna included Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss, Adele in Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss, Olympia in Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann and Oscar in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera. She performed the title role in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor with great success in Naples. In 1951, she sang at the Bayreuth Festival as the Forest Bird in Siegfried. Lipp possessed a pure, supple high-soprano voice with an accurate coloratura technique and a so-called "white" tone. Her career, which began in soubrette…
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Recordings
Lipp's first recording was the Queen of the Night in 1949. She also recorded this role with Karajan, Böhm, Krips, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Joseph Keilberth, and Wilhelm Schüchter. She recorded Pamina (Karajan, Schüchter), Konstanze (Krips, von Matacic), Elvira and Ilia. She also recorded operattas, both Adele and Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss, Laura in Millöcker's Der Bettelstudent, Pepi in Wiener Blut by Johann Strauss, Franzi in Ein Walzertraum by Oscar Straus, and the Briefchristl in Zeller's Der Vogelhändler. She recorded lieder recitals, Mozart's Requiem, and Ein deutsches Requiem by Johannes Brahms. Her last recording was as Leitmetzerin in 1983.
She is well represented in live recordings and radio broadcasts such as Musetta, Nanetta, Martha, the title role in Donizetti's La fille du régiment, Marguerite in Gounod's Faust, and many masses and oratorios. She has also appeared on TV (Live broadcast of Die Zauberflöte) and in films such as Unsterblicher Mozart (1954), The House of Three Girls (1958), The Cardinal (1963) and The Salzburg Festival (Tony Palmer, 2006).
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1953: Kammersängerin (deprecated: 1951, age 26)
1961: Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
1966: Nicolai Medal of the Vienna Philharmonic
1977: Honorary Medal of Vienna in gold
1982: Honorary Member of the Vienna State Opera
2004: Gold Medal for services to the city of Vienna
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Wilma Lipp discography at Discogs
Audio on YouTube, Queen of the Night: "O zittre nicht, mein lieber Sohn", from Mozart's The Magic Flute
"Domine Deus" on YouTube, duet from Mozart's Great Mass in C minor, K. 427, with Christa Ludwig, mezzo-soprano
