Lisa Della Casa

Lisa Della Casa
Born(1919-02-02)2 February 1919
Died10 December 2012(2012-12-10) (aged 93)
Münsterlingen, Switzerland
OccupationSoprano singer
Years active1940–1974
Organisation(s)Zürich Opera House
Vienna State Opera
Spouses
Ernst Geiser
(m. 1944; div. 1949)
Dragan Debeljevic
(m. 1949)

Lisa Della Casa (2 February 1919 – 10 December 2012) was a Swiss soprano most admired for her interpretations of major heroines in operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Strauss, and of German lieder. She was also described as “the most beautiful woman on the operatic stage”.[1]

  1. ^ Lisa Della Casa: Liebe einer Diva, Porträt der Sopranistin; German documentary film by Thomas Voigt and Wolfgang Wunderlich, BBC Motion Gallery, Sony BMG Music (Germany) GmbH, Wunderlich Medien GbR, United GmbH & Co. KG, Privatarchiv Lisa Della Casa, 2008 (in German)

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