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Highly Recommended To Listen Here Https //www.Last.Fm/tag/mimi Coertse ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mimi Coertse Born 12 June 1932 Is A South African Soprano. On 26 January 2020 Mimi Was Also Inaugurated As A Living Legend In The South African Legends Museum. She Was One Of Only 20 Legends From Whom A Bust Was Also Made. Early Live Coertse Born In Durban Matriculated At The Helpmekaar Girls High School In Johannesburg. 1 5 She Began Vocal Studies In South Africa In 1949. 2 Her First Vocal Coach In Johannesburg Was Aimee Parkerson. 3 Her Debut Performance In South Africa Was Singing Handel's Messiah At The Johannesburg City Hall On 11 December 1951. 3 In July 1953 She Married Broadcaster And Composer Dawid Engela. 1 5 She Left South Africa In September 1953 For London And Then Went Via The Hague To Vienna. In January 1954 She Started Training With Maria Hittorff And Josef Witt. 3 Opera Career Coertse Made Her Debut In January 1955 As The "first Flower Girl" In Wagner's Parsifal At The Teatro San Carlo In Naples Karl Böhm Conducting. She Also Sang In Basle At The Teatro San Carlo. On 17 March 1956 She Made Her Debut At The Vienna State Opera As The Queen Of The Night In Die Zauberflöte By Mozart And Remained With The Vienna State Opera Until 1978. 1 Her Covent Garden Debut Was In 1956 In The Same Role. 2 Her Roles Were Limited In The United Kingdom As The Equity Boycott Of South Africa Due To Apartheid Prevented Its Members From Having Anything To Do With South Africa's Entertainment Industry. 3 Coertse Sang The Soprano Part In Bach's Matthäus-Passion At Fritz Wunderlich's First Appearance In Vienna In 1958 When He Performed The Tenor Arias With Julius Patzak Singing The Evangelist. In 1958 Coertse And Fritz Wunderlich Again Worked Together At The Aix-En-Provence Festival In Die Zauberflöte. Citation Needed In 1965 She Sang Konstanze In Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail At The Vienna State Opera Which Also Featured Fritz Wunderlich As Belmonte. In 1966 Mimi Was Honoured By The President Of Austria With The Title Österreichischer Kammersänger For Her Ten Years Of Work As A Permanent Member At The Vienna State Opera. 1 5 Her Repertoire Also Includes The Magic Flute Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Queen Of The Night
Il Seraglio Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Constance
Ariadne Auf Naxos Richard Strauss – Najade Later Zerbinetta
Rigoletto Giuseppe Verdi – Gilda
The Tales Of Hoffmann Jacques Offenbach – Olympia Antonia Giulietta Stella
Palestrina Hans Pfitzner – The Angel
Carmen Georges Bizet – Frasquita
Martha Friedrich Von Flotow – Martha
Mignon Ambroise Thomas – Philine
La Traviata Giuseppe Verdi – Violetta
I Pagliacci Ruggiero Leoncavallo – Nedda
Arabella Richard Strauss – Fiaker-Milli
Bastien Und Bastienne Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Bastienne
The Merry Widow Franz Lehár – Hanna Glawari
Lucia Di Lammermoor Gaetano Donizetti – Lucia
Die Fledermaus Johann Strauss II – Rosalinde
L'heure Espagnole Maurice Ravel – Concepcion Staging Otto Schenk
Don Giovanni Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Donna Elvira
La Bohème Giacomo Puccini – Musetta
Norma Vincenzo Bellini – Norma
Così Fan Tutte Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Fiordiligi
Falstaff Giuseppe Verdi – Mrs. Alice Ford
Turandot Giacomo Puccini – Liu A Young Slave
Don Giovanni Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Donna Anna
Die Schweigsame Frau Richard Strauss – Aminta Timida 1968 Premiere Vienna State Opera Staging Hans Hotter
Die Ägyptische Helena Richard Strauss – Aithra
Daphne Richard Strauss – Daphne
Don Carlos Giuseppe Verdi – Elisabeth Von Valois Later Years Since Returning To South Africa In 1973 She Has Been A Regular Guest On South African Stages And Also A Frequent Broadcaster On Radio And Television. She Returned To The Vienna State Opera For A Single Farewell Performance As Elisabetta In Don Carlo On 14 December 1978. In Recent Years She Has Devoted Her Time To Exposing Young South African Singers To The Neglected Art Of Lieder Singing Which Can Be Artistically Even More Demanding Than Opera Singing. Her Support For Her Fellow South African Musicians Has Been Outstanding – As May Be Witnessed In Her Debut With Mimi And Through The Mimi Coertse Bursary. In 1996 Austria's Federal Ministry For Science And Art Awarded Her The Austrian Decoration For Science And Art Austrian Honour First Class Honour The Highest Honour An Artist Can Receive In That Country. 4 In 1998 She Received An Honorary Doctorate From The University Of Pretoria And Another In 2013 From The Unisa. 1 In 2002 She Would Receive The Golden Rathausmann From The Mayor Of Vienna. 1 In 1998 Coertse And Neels Hansen Founded The Black Tie Ensemble A Development Project Which Enables Young Classically Trained Singers To Bridge The Gap Between Training And Professional Performance. 5 This Project Has Developed Into The Most Exciting Classical Singing Ensemble In South Africa And Is Now On The Brink Of Becoming A Vibrant New Young Opera Company. A Project For Future Stars Of Africa! The Ensemble Sponsored By Sappi Performs Operas At The State Theatre Pretoria Walter Sisulu National Botanical Garden Johannesburg And The Civic Theatre Johannesburg . Citation Needed On 26 January 2020 Mimi Was Also Inaugurated As A Living Legend In The South African Legends Museum. She Was One Of Only 20 Legends From Whom A Bust Was Also Made. Personal Life Coertse Was Married Three Times. Coertse's First Marriage Was To South African Composer Dawid Engela In 1953 But The Marriage Ended In Divorce In 1957. 1 5 Her Second Marriage Was To Italian Business Man Diego Brighi In 1965 And Was Again Divorced In 1969. 1 5 Her Last Marriage Was To A Businessman Werner Ackerman In 1970 And Lasted Until 1994. 1 5 After Five Miscarriages She Would Adopt A Son And Daughter Werner And Mia. 1 Honours And Awards 1961 Medal Of Honour Of The South African Academy For Science And Art Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie Vir Wetenskap En Kuns Citation Needed 1966 Title Of Kammersängerin 1 5
1985 Decoration For Meritorious Services South Africa In Recognition Of Her Contribution To The Arts 1 5
August 1996 Austrian Cross Of Honour For Science And Art 4 1998 Honorary Doctor Of Philosophy H.C. From The University Of Pretoria South Africa 6 5
2002 Golden "Rathausmann" 1 5
In 2004 Voted 45th In The Top 100 Great South Africans Citation Needed In 2008 Mimi Coertse Museum Van Afrikaans Opened At HAP - Huis Van Afrikaanse Poësie In Capital Park Pretoria. 1 5
2012 1 July–30 September Special Exhibition In Staatsoper Museum Vienna "Mimi Coertse A Viennese Woman From South Africa" Citation Needed 2020 Inaugurated As A Living Legend In The South African Legends Museum. She Was One Of Only 20 Legends From Whom A Bust Was Also Made. References 1.Teresa Coetzee 5 August 2017 . "My Lewe Het Verloop Soos Dit Moet Se Mimi". Die Burger. 2.H. Rosenthal And J. Warrack Concise Oxford Dictionary Of Opera OUP London 1974 Printing . 3.De Beer Diane 12 June 2012 . "'Onse' Mimi Coertse - A Formidable Woman". IOL. Retrieved 6 August 2017. 4."Reply To A Parliamentary Question" PDF In German . P. 1067. Retrieved 25 January 2013. 5.De Beer Diane 9 September 2014 . "Opera In Limbo Facing Reality Of Funds". IOL. Retrieved 6 August 2017. 6."Maria Coertse". Whoswho.Co.Za. Retrieved 9 January 2018 Literature *Helmuth Furch 'Die Wiener Jahre Von Kammersängerin Mimi Coertse ' 'The Viennese Years Of Kammersängerin Mimi Coertse' Bulletin Of Museums- Und Kulturverein Kaisersteinbruch No. 41 20–56 March 1996 Also 'Mimi Coertse Die Hochgeschätzte Konzert- Und Liedsängerin' 'A Reverence For A Great Concert- And Lieder-Singer' Ibid. No. 52 33–54 December 1998.
*Helmuth Furch Eva Hilda Smolik And Elfriede Werthan Kammersängerin Mimi Coertse Eine Wienerin Aus Südafrika Kammersängerin Mimi Coertse A Viennese Woman From South Africa With A Preface By Marcel Prawy Vienna 2002 . Categories 1932 Births *Living People *Musicians From Durban *Afrikaans-Language Singers *Afrikaner People *South African Female Singers *South African Operatic Sopranos *20th-Century Opera Singers *20th-Century Women Opera Singers *20th-Century South African Singers *University Of Pretoria Alumni *Classical Music *radio Presenters *Recipients Of The Austrian Cross Of Honour For Science And Art *Österreichischer Kammersänger *Women Radio Presenters Https //en.Wikipedia.Org/wiki/Mimi_Coertse read less