Maria Stader
Blessed with a silvery lyric soprano, true in timbre and beautifully trained, Maria Stader was unable to enjoy the opera career she deserved. Only 4'9" in height, she was deemed too diminutive to be a viable figure on-stage. Thus, she was confined to recording congenial opera roles and to making concert appearances. Despite what some might have regarded as a setback, she achieved genuine celebrity and became an artist favored by many first-rank conductors. Orphaned in Hungary during WWI, Stader was brought by the International Red Cross to Switzerland, where she was adopted by fisherman Hans Stader. She began her music training near her home on the shores of Lake Constance. Later, she studied with Hans Keller in Karlsruhe, Germany, with the famous dramatic soprano Giannina Arangi-Lombardi in Milan and with Therese Schnabel in New York. She attracted international attention when she won first prize for singing in the Concourse International d'Execution Musicale in Geneva in 1939. After WWII, Stader taught at the Musikacademie in Zurich while at the same time launching a concert career. Recognized as an exemplary Mozart singer, she was heard in other parts of Europe, Africa and the Far East, and eventually, in the United States. A rare opera appearance presented her as the Queen of the Night at Covent Garden during the 1949-1950 season. One of four sopranos to sing the role in that production, Stader did not attract sufficient attention to bring about reengagement. Her first American appearances took place in 1954 when she sang with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Cleveland Orchestra. In 1956, she sang a series of concert performances in Israel of both Lucia di Lammermoor and Judas Maccabaeus under conductor Ferenc Fricsay. Among Stader's recordings, her Konstanze, Pamina, and Marzelline are attractive realizations. In the concert repertory, recordings of the Dvorák Requiem, several Mozart masses, and Mozart's Exsultate, jubilate are worthy examples of her art. Before her retirement in 1969, Stader published a text on the performance of Bach arias. During her career, she was honored with several awards, among them the Lilli Lehmann Medal, the Silver Mozart Medal (City of Salzburg), and the Austrian Order of Merit.
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Mozart: Mass in C Minor, K. 427 "Great" (Live)
Classical - Released by Orfeo on 31 Aug 2018
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Süßer Die Glocken Nie Klingen (Classical German Christmas Songs)
Classical - Released by Season's Greetings on 1 Jan 2012
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Arien von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Mono Version)
Maria Stader, Camerata Salzburg, Bernhard Paumgartner
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1962
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Mozart: La flûte enchantée, version abrégée (Mono Version)
Maria Stader, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, RIAS Symphonie-Orchester, Ferenc Fricsay
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1960
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Mozart: Messe, K. 317 "Du couronement" (Mono Version)
Maria Stader, Berliner Philharmoniker, Igor Markevitch
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1958
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Verdi: Messa da Requiem (Mono Version)
Maria Stader, Helmut Krebs, Ferenc Fricsay
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1954
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Rossini: Stabat Mater
Maria Stader, Kim Borg, RIAS Symphonie-Orchester, Ferenc Fricsay
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 1 Feb 1955
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BRAHMS: Deutsches Requiem, Ein (A German Requiem), Op. 45
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
Classical - Released by SWR Classic on 1 Jan 2000
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Maria Stader / RIAS Symphonie-Orchester Berlin / Ferenc Fricsay play: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Motette für Sopran - "Exsultate, jubilate", KV 165
Maria Stader, Rias-Kammerchor Und Rias-Sinfonieorchester
Classical - Released by Classico Ivano on 13 Feb 2015
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Mozart · Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Maria Stader, Ernst Haeflinger, Ferenc Fricsay, Rias-Kammerchor Und Rias-Sinfonieorchester
Classical - Released by G.O.P. on 30 Nov 2023
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Mozart: Messe, K. 317 "Du couronnement" (Mono Version)
Maria Stader, Orchestre Lamoureux, Igor Markevitch
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1962
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Mozart: Air de Constance extrait de L'enlèvement au sérail - Rossini: Inflammatus et accensus extrait du Stabat Mater (Mono Version)
Classical - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1957
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Mozart: Airs religieux (Mono Version)
Maria Stader, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Gustav Konig
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1958
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, Extracts (Stereo Version)
Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Ferenc Fricsay, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Maria Stader
Classical - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1960
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Verdi · Messa da Requiem
Classical - Released by G.O.P. on 8 Dec 2023
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Puccini & Bizet: Airs d'opéras (Mono Version)
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1958
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Massenet: Manon, extraits (Mono Version)
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1957
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Maria Stader singt aus Oratorien (Stereo Version)
Maria Stader, Orchestre -Bach de Munich, Karl Richter
Classical - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1962
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Mozart: Quatuor du deuxième acte extrait de L'enlèvement au sérail (Mono Version)
Maria Stader, Ernst Haefliger, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Ferenc Fricsay
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1957
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Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Short Version, Mono Version)
Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Ferenc Fricsay, Ernst Häfliger, Maria Stader
Classical - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Nov 1954
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Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik & Mahler: Symphony No. 4
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Maria Stader
Symphonic Music - Released by Intermusic S.A. on 10 Aug 2015
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