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Helen Traubel
HELEN FRANCESCA TRAUBEL (June 16, 1899 - July 28, 1972) was an American opera and concert singer. A dramatic soprano, she was best known for her Wagnerian roles, especially those of Brünnhilde and ...lihat lebih banyakHELEN FRANCESCA TRAUBEL (June 16, 1899 - July 28, 1972) was an American opera and concert singer. A dramatic soprano, she was best known for her Wagnerian roles, especially those of Brünnhilde and Isolde.
Born into a prosperous family of German descent in St. Louis, Missouri, Traubel studied singing in her native city with Louise Vetta-Karst. She made her debut as a concert singer with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in 1923, and in 1936 joined the Metropolitan Opera company. Starting in the 1950s, she also developed a career as a nightclub and cabaret singer as well as appearing in television, films and musical theatre.
Traubel spent her later years in Santa Monica, California, where she died of a heart attack in 1972, aged 73. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame in 1994.
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