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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1898
- Active to
- 1972
Discography
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Erna Sack (born 6 February 1898, Spandau, Berlin, - died 2 March. 1972, Mainz), was a German coloratura soprano of exceptional talent. Erna Sack's maiden name was Weber, and as a child her voice attracted attention both at school and in the church choir in which she sang. In 1921, Erna married Hermann Sack. She studied at the Prague Conservatory, and later in Berlin with Oscar Daniel. She received her first break aged 30, when the wife of conductor Bruno Walter happened to hear her at one of h
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Erna
- Family name
- Sack
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Spandau
- Place of death
- Mainz
- Occupation
- opera singer
- Educated at
- Prague Conservatory
- Languages spoken
- German
- Instrument
- voice
- Voice type
- coloratura soprano
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- place of burial
- South Cemetery Wiesbaden
- date of birth
- 1897-02-06
- date of death
- 1972-03-02
- Fach vocal classification
- coloratura soprano
- cause of death
- cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 1925-00-00
- Commons category
- Erna Sack
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