Posted by Pierre Cabana on 3/10/2005, 7:06 pm, in reply to "Re: SACK FAMILY [POSSIBLY ZAK]"
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I'm from Québec Canada. I'm a fan of Erna Sack ever since 1953 when I heard a record in my mother's collection which got lost. It was a small format record album of green color with more than one record. I now enjoy a CD LYS002 from Dante of France of songs recorded in 1935 & 39 It is definively the same album, but it is Brownish in color rather than greenish (it was 50 years ago...) The songs are the same. I beleive it was called "Un Rossignol Allemand").
Since than I've looked for records and eventulaly found and bought a large album of containing a London T.5003 Lp with the New Promenade Orchestra under Hans May, an otherLondon T.5217 with Orchestral accompaniement by Victor Reinshagen, both made in England, and a Mercury Classics record DM18 16014 with the Orchestra of the German Opera House, Berlin under Han Schmidt-Isserstedt from Czechoslovak masters, all three in german.
I also have an a more recent album (1972) by London-Telefunken SPA.4040 (091 776) with Choir and Orchestra with songs recorded in January 1935-37-38 and December 1939.
I've just purchased on eBay a 10" 33 1/3 album made in USA "The European Nightingale" Capitol-Telefunken L-8000. all albums have short biographies which I could forward to you by scanning them. I do not have the Legacy record with the duet, but will certainly give it a try, to find it.
I was informed by an elderly gentleman in Montreal that Erna Sack would have been a signing star in Montreal during the early 50's (that would explain why my parents would have had that record). She would have toured around Quéebec for a few years and this gentleman claims that he attended one of her concerts, as he was an Opera fan (He must be around 75-80).
I know from reading the cover of one of my albums that she first was engaged as a small "Alto" role at the Berlin Opera as early as 1928, on the instigation of the Conductor Bruno Walter. Than in 1930, the Bielfeld Opera gave a role as a "Colatura", she's 32 years old. Her voice his discovered as exceptional and she's engaged in Wiesbaden in 1932,in Breslau in 1934 and finaly in Dresden in 1935. Richard Strauss sees her and Karl Böhn encourages hers. On June 1935 at the Dresden Stat Opera, she gets to sing the premiere of Strauss's "Schweingame Frau" in the role Isotta. It's a world premiere alongside Maria Cebotari in the role of Aminta. Karl Böhn was conducting in replacement of Fritz Busch who had to flee from German Nazi. Strauss was astonished and it resulted that in singing the role of Zerbinetta in "Ariane auf Naxos", the composer allowed to climb one octave higher that the writen score. Cebotari was the big star of the era and flirting with the movies industry. Her Husband and impressario decided to follow on her footsteps. In 1935 she stars in "Blumen von Nizza", she sang in London for King george and in 1937 she toured America and sang at Carnegie Hallin the big Reich operetta film as "Nanon" the platinum blonde that we see on the pictures of albums. Her voice will go down. Walter had suggested to her to get involved with bigger roles like Norina from "Don Pasquale" and she did, but she never got to sing Lucia. She lived through a very particuler time his history and was to be compared with the great Yma Suma. After the war, she and her husband mooved to Swizerland and fulfilled her first recording engagement with Decca-London. Three records, one on which she duets with Max Lichtegg, the others as a soprano solo. Then she sailed to Rio de Janeiro and engaged in a five year all over the Southern Hemisphere. Could it be that during or after that tour, she showed up in Montreal and even lived her for a number of years?.
Thanks for your patience reading me. Pierre Cabana, Magog, Québec, Canada
cabana.pierre@qc.aira.com
--Previous Message--
: I am compiling on Erna Sack (Erna
: Sack, nee Weber, born in
: Berlin-Spandau in 1898 and died in
: Mainz 1972), the pre-WWII German
: coloratura soprano. She recorded
: the duet “Niemand liebt dich so wie
: ich” in Berlin for Deutsche
: Telefunken in November 1935. Marcel
: Wittrisch, tenor, sang the male
: part. The duet has recently been
: re-issued by “Telefunken/Legacy”
: (Warner Music Manufacturing Europe)
: as part of the Erna Sack: Die
: Deutsche Nachtigall collection
: (3984-28412-2).
:
: You mention that Erna Sack was a
: cousin of your grandmother. This is
: an interesting reference. Erna Sack
: was her married name, she was born
: Erna Weber in Berlin-Spandau in 1898
: and married her husband, Hermann
: Sack, in 1921
:
: Can you provide any further
: information on Erna Sack.
:
: Thanks in advance for your help and
: interest
:
: Richard W. Montague
: r.w.montague@t-online.de
: April 24, 2004
: --Previous Message--
: :
: new message!
: descendants of Reuben/Reuven Sack
: and wife Liebe, who emigrated from
: Lithuania to South Africa in about
: 1880-1.
: hello!
: :Part of my family came from Latvia
: and Lithauen ,it might be a
: connection? I'm stock and can't find
: parents ,brothers and sisters to
: Berl
: Sack born ca 1855 in Salant,died
: 1929
: in Libau. My mother has a wage
: memmory that her Grandfathers mother
: was called Anna or Channe .They were
: all academics and very wealthy.
: Several family members emigrated!I
: have no names of his sisters and
: brothers, only a cousin of my
: grandmothers ,the operasinger Erna
: Sack and that my grandmother said
: that all the Sacs were related by
: blood or marridge. My mother sais
: that her grandfather came from a
: famous rabbinic family, This is all
: I
: know ,perhaps if you give some names
: My mother will remember! My
: grandmothers friends all moved to
: South-Afrika or America because they
: had family that moved there in the
: middle and early 1800th century,
: shalom from Pia
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