Goldie Hoffman was born on January 14,1921, in Cleveland, Ohio, to a family of Hungarian origin.
12 Facts About Grace Hoffman
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Grace Hoffman studied literature and musicology and received her first vocal training from Lila Robeso, then with Friedrich Schorr and Giuseppe Gentile as well as Mario Basiola in Rome.
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Grace Hoffman made her debut in 1951 with the touring Wagner Opera Company as Lucia in Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana.
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Grace Hoffman then moved to the Staatsoper Stuttgart, where she was a member of the ensemble until 1992.
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Grace Hoffman appeared as a guest at La Scala in Milan in 1955, in the role of Fricka in Wagner's Die Walkure, opposite Martha Modl, Wolfgang Windgassen, and Hans Hotter.
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Grace Hoffman returned to that theatre in 1974, for Herodias in Salome, with Dame Gwyneth Jones.
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Grace Hoffman performed at the Bavarian State Opera, the San Francisco Opera, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, the Paris Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Opera national de Bordeaux, the Teatro Comunale Bologna, La Fenice in Venice, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, La Monnaie in Brussels, the Copenhagen Opera House, the Philadelphia Opera, and the Liceu in Barcelona.
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Grace Hoffman returned to the Met in 1971, again in Tristan und Isolde, now opposite Jess Thomas, Birgit Nilsson, and John Macurdy, conducted by Erich Leinsdorf.
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Grace Hoffman sang Dorabella in Cosi fan Tutte, Kostelnicka in Jenufa, Waltraute and the Second Norn in Gotterdammerung, and Klitamnestra in Elektra.
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In 1978, Grace Hoffman was appointed a professor at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart but continued her singing career.
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Grace Hoffman recorded Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde in 1958 with Helmut Melchert conducted by Hans Rosbaud for Vox Records.
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Grace Hoffman died of pancreatic cancer in the Marienhospital Stuttgart on July 26,2008, at age 87.