Dorothee Manski was a German-born American operatic soprano and voice teacher.
11 Facts About Dorothee Manski
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Dorothee Manski appeared at the Metropolitan Opera in 335 performances, and took leading roles internationally, such as Wagner's Isolde at the Salzburg Festival.
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Dorothee Manski studied there at the Prox School and the Conservatory of Music with Emmy Raabe-Burg.
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Dorothee Manski performed at the Staatsoper Stuttgart from 1919 to 1921, and then returned to Berlin, where she sang at the State Opera from 1922 to 1926.
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Dorothee Manski appeared as Eurydice in Offenbach's Orpheus in der Unterwelt, directed by Max Reinhardt.
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Dorothee Manski remained with the company until 1941, during which time she sang in 335 performances.
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Dorothee Manski appeared as a guest at the San Francisco Opera between 1931 and 1937, as the Witch, Herodias, and as Freia, Gutrune and several other roles in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen.
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Dorothee Manski was a guest at the Chicago Opera in 1938.
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From 1942, Manski was professor of voice at the Indiana University in Bloomington, where she lived.
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Dorothee Manski was married to the German physician, violinist and composer Walter Bransen.
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Dorothee Manski's voice appears as Freia and Gutrune in transcription recordings from the Metropolitan Opera between 1936 and 1941, conducted by Artur Bodanzky, alongside Friedrich Schorr as Wotan and Gunther, Marjorie Lawrence as Brunnhilde and Lauritz Melchior as Siegfried, which were reissued as CD.