Word: marschallin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...makes for a drowsy, pretty evening. But it is time for Bonynge to get out of the archives. With Esclarmonde he revealed the rich sensuality in Sutherland's voice. Why not give her a real part, like the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier...
...later with the Vienna Opera, where she created several roles for her friend Richard Strauss, and in 1934 with the Metropolitan. Notable among her 100 roles were her yielding Sieglinde in Die Walküre, her devout Elisabeth in Tannhäuser and, most outstanding of all, her matchless Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier. At 62, she reduced a Town Hall audience to tears when she announced her retirement, quoting the Marschallin, who looked at her aging face in the mirror and said: "It is time." In her later years in California she painted, wrote several books, and taught master classes...