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Singing Isolde is worth all of life's sorrows

Singing Isolde is worth all of life's sorrows

Concise biographical sketch of GERMAINE LUBIN

Jun 08, 2023
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Singing Isolde is worth all of life's sorrows
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Author : Jos Hermans

As much as Max Lorenz was his favorite Siegfried, Germaine Lubin was Adolf Hitlers favorite Isolde. Once liberation came, the great career of the French soprano was over. Arrested five times, she spent months in terrible prisons awaiting various trials. Her Paris apartment and her country home were confiscated, she was fired for life…

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