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BRANDT (Brandt) Marianne (real name and surname - Maria Anna Bischof, Bischof) (12 IX 1842, Vienna - 9 VII 1921, ibid.) - Aust. singer (mezzo-soprano, then contralto). She studied singing at the Vienna Conservatory, improved in Baden-Baden with P. Viardo-Garcia. In 1867 she made her debut in Olmütz (Olomouc). In 1868-82, the soloist of the Berlin and Hamburg operas. She was a close friend of R. Wagner and F. Liszt. She sang at the Bayreuth Theater at the premieres of the operas Death of the Gods and Parsifal (1876, 1882). In 1884-87, she was a soloist with the Metropolitan Opera Theater (New York), where she participated in the premieres (concert) of R. Wagner’s operas Valkyrie, Siegfried, Tristan and Isolda, Rienzi, Nuremberg Mastersingers, Parsifal. From 1890 she lived in Vienna and led pedagogy. work. She possessed an extremely wide range voice. Despite,that the singer’s greatest successes were related to the Wagnerian repertoire, contemporaries considered her the best part to Leonora (Fidelio), in which she achieved harmonious results. unity wok. and stage. image, embodiment of vivid emotional contrasts. Dr.parties: Elvira (Don Giovanni), Amneris (Aida), Azuchen (Troubadour), Orpheus (Orpheus and Eurydice Gluck), Rachelle (Cardinal's Daughter Halevi). V.V. Timokhin.