Rita Streich
Birthday
1920/12/18
Day of death
1987/03/20 (66 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Barnaul, Altai Governorate [now Altai Krai], Russia
Also know as
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Biography
Rita Streich (18 December 1920 – 20 March 1987) was one of the most admired and recorded lyric coloratura sopranos of the post-war period. Rita Streich was born in Barnaul, southern Siberia, in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR), to a German father who had been a prisoner of war there, and a Russian mother. She moved to Germany with her parents during her childhood. She grew up speaking both German and Russian fluently, something that was extremely helpful during her later...Read more
Acting
(1994) Salzburg Marionette Theatre: The Magic Flute
as Queen of the Night
(1959) Freunde, vernehmt die Geschichte
as Self
(1956) Melodie der Welt
as Self
(1948) The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
(1971) Dalli Dalli
as Self
(1972) Le Grand Échiquier
as Self
(1957) Zum blauen Bock
as Self
(1964) Der goldene Schuß
as Self
(1969) Das Sonntagskonzert
as Self
(1959) Discorama
as Self
(1955) Was bin ich?
as self