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Lily Greenham
Lily Henriette Greenham (4 January 1924 - 31 October 2001) was an Austrian-born Danish visual artist, performer, composer and leading proponent of sound poetry and concrete poetry. Early life Vienna Greenham was born in Vienna, Austria, on January 4, 1924, the only child of Rena Pfiffer-Lax and Dr. Gabriel Lax, both of Polish/Ukrainian-Jewish descent. Her mother was a well-known soprano opera singer from Przemyśl who performed at the Vienna Volksoper, Vienna State Opera, and various international venues during the 1920s and ‘30s. Her father was a lawyer, impresario and former police commissioner from Berezhany. Her parents divorced in 1929 and her mother later remarried to Danish singer Egon Madsen in Copenhagen in 1933. Lily was a pupil at the progressive Rahlgasse School in Vienna until April 1938, whose alumni also include philologist Gertrud Herzog-Hauser, actress and journalist Lina Loos, fashion designer (and life partner of Gustav Klimt) Emilie Louise Flöge, and nuclea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rena Pfiffer-Lax
Rena Pfiffer-Lax-Madsen (October 5, 1893 – October 8, 1943), usually seen as Rena Pfiffer-Lax, was a Polish soprano opera singer based in Austria and Denmark, and associated with Viennese opera houses in the 1920s. Early life and education Rena Pfiffer was born in Przemyśl, now in south east Poland, to Polish-Jewish parents. She trained as a singer in Lviv and Vienna, with Edmund Walter and Gustav Geiringer. Career Pfiffer joined the Vienna Volksoper in 1919. She gave performances in Dresden, Sofia, Lviv, Warsaw, and Budapest. ''The New York Times'' described her voice in 1927 as "lyric, of pleasing timbre, not as flexible as a Coloratura soprano, coloratura, but her instincts are highly dramatic and she sings in a spirited manner." Performances by Pfiffer included roles in Meyerbeer's ''Robert le diable'' (Vienna, 1921), and Mozart's ''Die Entführung aus dem Serail'' (Vienna, 1918). In 1927 Pfiffer traveled to the United States, where she gave a recital at Aeolian Buil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |