Maria Jeritza
Maria Jeritza
Maria Jeritzawas a celebrated Czech soprano singer, long associated with the Vienna State Operaand the Metropolitan Opera. Her sensational rise to fame and spectacular beauty and personality earned her the nickname "The Moravian Thunderbolt"...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth6 October 1887
CountryItaly
believe men soul
My chance, when it came, was due, literally, to the fact that I was slender.... You cannot make an opera audience believe that a man will endanger his soul, and commit robbery and murder for a very stout lady's sake.
character artist creative
It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it.
real lying singing
The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.