| Biography | Hilde Zadek was a German operatic soprano. She was Kammersängerin at the Vienna State Opera and performed internationally.
As a Jew, she was forced to leave Germany in 1934 and settled in then, Palestine, where she worked as a nurse and shoe saleswoman in Jerusalem. She made her operatic debut in 1947 at the Vienna State Opera in the title role of Verdi's Aida to great acclaim; she remained with this theatre until 1971. The following year she first appeared at the Salzburg Festival, where she appeared as Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni, as Vittelia in his La clemenza di Tito, and in the title role of Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss. Her repertory also included Elsa in Wagner's Lohengrin, Eva in his Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and the title roles of Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride and Puccini's Tosca. |