Lina Frieb, real name Karoline Frieb, married name Karoline Mühldorfer (26 November 1845 – 27 August 1876) was a German operatic

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Born in Vienna, Frieb was the daughter of the actress and singer

Minona Frieb-Blumauer Minona Frieb-Blumauer (born Johanna Blumauer; 11 May 1816 – 31 July 1886) was a German actress and singer. Life Born in Stuttgart, Minona was the daughter of actor Karl Blumauer, with whom she received her first lessons. Already as a child ...

and the engineer Emanuel Frieb, devoted herself to the stage career and received her first dramatic lessons from her mother. She took singing lessons with choirmaster Johann Elsler in Berlin. Frieb made her début on 24 November 1864 at the as Benjamin in ''

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'' by

Étienne Méhul Étienne Nicolas Méhul (; 22 June 1763 – 18 October 1817) was a French composer of the late Classical period (music), classical and early Romantic period (music), romantic periods. He was known as "the most important opera composer in France ...

. In 1866, she came to Berlin as a

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at the

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, where she stayed until 1868, then sang at the

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for a year, and after a short but successful career as an artist, she appeared on stage for the last time on 31 May 1869. Zerline in ''

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'' and Marie in '' Tsar and Carpenter'' were also excellent performances by the popular singer. In 1872, she married the

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Wilhelm Mühldorfer. Lina Frieb Mühldorfer died in

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at the age of 30.

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* German operatic sopranos Singers from Vienna 1845 births 1876 deaths {{Germany-opera-singer-stub

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