Opera Singer. A coloratura soprano who was praised throughout Europe, she shall be remembered for her long career at the Berlin State Opera. Raised during the tumult of the Nazi years, she began her vocal studies at Weimar in 1946, relocated to East Germany in 1951, and made her 1954 professional debut with the Komische Oper Berlin in what would become one of her signature roles, the Queen of the Night from Mozart's "The Magic Flute". For the next two seasons, Jutta was heard at Wagner's Bayreuth Festival as a Flower Maiden in "Parsifal" and Woglinde from the "Ring Cycle", then in 1956 she joined the Berlin State Opera where she would remain thru 1991. Though based in Berlin, she made frequent guest appearances at Covent Garden, the Paris Opera, Barcelona, Munich, Prague, the Bolshoi, Lisbon, and elsewhere, her repertoire including Violetta of Verdi's "La Traviata", the title Galatea in Handel's "Acis and Galatea", Alice Ford from Verdi's "Falstaff", Rosalinde in Richard Strauss' "Die Fledermaus", Konstanze of Mozart's "The Abduction from the Seraglio", Elisabeth from Verdi's "Don Carlos", and both Donna Elvira and Donna Anna in Mozart's "Don Giovanni". Awarded the National Prize of the GDR in 1959, she was that same year designated Kammersangerin (KS); on February 16, 1974 she was in the cast for the State Opera world premiere of Paul Desseau's "Einstein". Gradually slowing down, she retired in 1991 and remained in what was by then a unified Berlin. At her death, she could be heard on numerous live recordings as well as complete studio preservations of "The Abduction from the Seraglio", "Acis and Galatea", and Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana".
Opera Singer. A coloratura soprano who was praised throughout Europe, she shall be remembered for her long career at the Berlin State Opera. Raised during the tumult of the Nazi years, she began her vocal studies at Weimar in 1946, relocated to East Germany in 1951, and made her 1954 professional debut with the Komische Oper Berlin in what would become one of her signature roles, the Queen of the Night from Mozart's "The Magic Flute". For the next two seasons, Jutta was heard at Wagner's Bayreuth Festival as a Flower Maiden in "Parsifal" and Woglinde from the "Ring Cycle", then in 1956 she joined the Berlin State Opera where she would remain thru 1991. Though based in Berlin, she made frequent guest appearances at Covent Garden, the Paris Opera, Barcelona, Munich, Prague, the Bolshoi, Lisbon, and elsewhere, her repertoire including Violetta of Verdi's "La Traviata", the title Galatea in Handel's "Acis and Galatea", Alice Ford from Verdi's "Falstaff", Rosalinde in Richard Strauss' "Die Fledermaus", Konstanze of Mozart's "The Abduction from the Seraglio", Elisabeth from Verdi's "Don Carlos", and both Donna Elvira and Donna Anna in Mozart's "Don Giovanni". Awarded the National Prize of the GDR in 1959, she was that same year designated Kammersangerin (KS); on February 16, 1974 she was in the cast for the State Opera world premiere of Paul Desseau's "Einstein". Gradually slowing down, she retired in 1991 and remained in what was by then a unified Berlin. At her death, she could be heard on numerous live recordings as well as complete studio preservations of "The Abduction from the Seraglio", "Acis and Galatea", and Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana".
Bio by: Bob Hufford
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