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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Maria Durch Ein Dornwald Ging
Maria Stader, Münchner Chorbuben, Instrumental Ensemble, Hedwig Bilgram
Classical - Released by Music Maestros on 1 Aug 2020
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Romantische Weihnachten
Pop - Released by Ramla Recordings on 1 Sep 2021
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Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht
Pop - Released by Music Maestros on 1 Aug 2020
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Maria Stader / Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester play: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "A questo senso deh vieni - Or che il cielo a me ti rende", KV 374
Maria Stader, Kölner Rundfunksinfonieorchester
Symphonic Music - Released by Classico Ivano on 6 Feb 2015
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Maria Stader/ Karl Engel spielen: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: 5 Lieder
Concertos - Released by Classico Ivano on 26 Dec 2014
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Maria Stader / Hans Altmann spielen: Robert Schumann: Aus Frauenliebe und -leben - Acht Lieder nach Adelbert von Chamisso, op. 42
Concertos - Released by Classico Ivano on 5 Dec 2014
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Maria Stader / Koelner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester spielen: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Rezitativ und Arie für Sopran und Orchester
Symphonic Music - Released by Classico Ivano on 14 Nov 2014
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Maria Stader / Winterthur-Stadtorchester / Walter Reinhart play: Johann Sebastian Bach: Magnificat - 3. Int. Bach-Festival, BWV 243
Classical - Released by Classico Ivano on 8 May 2015
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In dulci jubilo (Mono Version)
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1962
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Maria Stader singt aus Oratorien (Mono Version)
Classical - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1962
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Récital (Mono Version)
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1957
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Puccini: Madame Butterfly, extraits (Mono Version)
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1957
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Mozart: Airs d'opéra et de concert (Mono Version)
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1957
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In dulci jubilo (Stereo Version)
Christmas Music - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1962
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Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem (Mono Version)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Fritz Lehmann, Maria Stader, Otto Wiener
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1955
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Mozart: Messe in C Minor, K. 427 "Grosse Messe" (Mono Version)
Ferenc Fricsay, Maria Stader, Ernst Haefliger
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1960
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Beethoven: Missa solemnis (Mono Version)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm, Maria Stader
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 2013
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Mozart & Beethoven: Airs de concert (Mono Version)
Maria Stader, Astrid Varnay, Kim Borg
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1957
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Airs de Mozart (Stereo Version)
Maria Stader, Camerata Academica des Salzburger Mozarteums, Bernhard Paumgartner
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1962
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Bach: Cantates BWV 51 & BWV 202 (Stereo Version)
Orchestre -Bach de Munich, Karl Richter, Maria Stader
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1959
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Dvořák: Requiem (Karel Ančerl Edition, Vol. 6)
Classical - Released by Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. on 1 Jan 1959
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