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Berlin ballad

by | 10:10 am | Nov 19, 2010

eggerth_thumbSeven decades of difference in age doesn’t stand in the way of a charming interview between Marta Eggerth and Zachary Woolfe on the occasion of her viewing her 1932 film Das Blaue vom Himmel for the very first time. (Prepare to be verklempt.) [New York Observer]

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  • phoenix says:

    thanks Mr. Wolfe for this interview-tribute to Marta Eggerth… you bring out her personality vividly and, you know, what she said about pre-WW2 Europe was very similar to what Maria Jeritza told me almost 40 year ago… much of the politico-economic turmoil never reached some parts of Main Street during those precarious times.
    – You can find some of Marta Eggerth’s memoirs online on different websites & she has some wonderful stories (at least i found her stories very interesting), particularly one about Kirsten Flagstad smoking cigars & gambling early into the mornings hours on a day when she also sang Tristan und Isolde at the Met that evening.
    – BTW, i also had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Zachary Wolfe at the Thalia last Sunday night & although he may be just barely old enough to be Marta Eggerth’s great-grandson, he is the cutest great-grandson I’ve seen in a long time!

    on November 19, 2010 at 10:45 AM
  • rommie says:

    i wonder how the dress for DonCarlo is/was/when is it?

    on November 19, 2010 at 11:04 AM
  • Lucy says:

    Thanks for sharing this lovely piece. I’ve actually just been making the discovery of Eggerth over the past few months; thanks to phoenix for the recommendation to take up the online hunt for memoirs.

    on November 19, 2010 at 1:59 PM
  • papopera says:

    Mon dieu !! I thought she died years ago, how touching to hear from her at 98 years of age yet.

    on November 19, 2010 at 8:21 PM
  • Camille says:

    Such an adorable creature she was!
    About ten or so years ago I heard her @ Licia Albanese gala. She was still singing.

    May her memories all be golden and keep her warm in this cold world.

    on November 20, 2010 at 12:15 AM
    • Camille says:

      What a wonderful picture, phoenix!

      I am currently listening to Susan Graham sing ‘Vilja’ on The Prairie Home Companion, by sheer coincidence!

      Hope she’s got a merry widow on!!!! A BLACK one, too!

      on November 21, 2010 at 1:27 PM
      • phoenix says:

        Glad you enjoyed the pictures, Camille. There are some wonderful ones up in the images section of the engines… i haven’t looked at the videos yet, but I’m sure they are fun, too.
        – if only Susan Graham was even a fraction as glamorous as Marta was, how lucky we would be…

        on November 21, 2010 at 5:29 PM