Marie Gutheil-Schoder

Marie Gutheil-Schoder was an important German operatic soprano. Born Marie Schoder in Weimar, she married Gustav Gutheil in 1899, with whom she lived until his death in 1914. In 1920, she married the photographer Franz Xaver Setzer. She debuted in the secondary role of the First Lady at the Weimar Court Opera in The Magic Flute in her native city of Weimar in 1891. Gustav Mahler engaged her for the Vienna State Opera in 1900, where she remained until 1926. She played Octavian in the 1911 Austrian premiere of Der Rosenkavalier and many times thereafter. Another of her famous roles was her portrayal of a "strange, Nietzschean" Carmen. In 1914, she created Esmeralda in the world premiere of Franz Schmidt's opera Notre Dame. She was also seen in the 1922 Vienna premiere of Richard Strauss's ballet Josephslegende as Potiphar's Wife. Her other most frequent roles include Nedda in Pagliacci, Frau Fluth in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Martha in Tiefland, Mozart's Susanna, Pamina, and Donna Elvira, and the title roles in Richard Strauss's operas Salome and Elektra. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_G...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)