page_title: Anna Milder-Hauptmann
section_title: 1814–1838
hierarchical_section_title: Anna Milder-Hauptmann / 1814–1838
caption_attribution_description: English: Soprano Anna Milder in the title role of the opera Orpheus (1807) by the Viennese composer and journalist Friedrich August Kanne&lt;[1]
context_page_description: Pauline Anna Milder-Hauptmann was an operatic soprano.
context_section_description: The Austrian currency fell sharply around 1814, and Milder-Hauptmann received offers for roles at the Berlin Court Opera. Accompanied by her sister Jeanette Antonie Bürde (b. 1799), an accomplished composer and pianist, she travelled to Berlin in May 1815 where she would stay for the next 14 years. Gaspare Spontini was music director at the Berlin Court Opera, and she sang the role of Statira in the first Berlin performance of his highly underrated opera Olimpie in 1821 as well as in the premieres of his operas Nurmahal (as Namouna) in 1822 and Agnes von Hohenstaufen (as Irmengard) in 1827. She again sang in operas by Gluck and Weigl in Berlin, was appointed prima donna assoluta and became a member of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin in 1821. On 11 March 1829,  she sang in Mendelssohn's momentous revival of Bach's St Matthew Passion. Mendelssohn wrote the concert aria Tutto è silenzio in 1829 for her. Following a quarrel with Spontini, she left Berlin in 1829 and visited Russia, Sweden and Denmark. She then returned to Berlin, where she made her last public appearance in 1836.
  She died in Berlin, and is buried on the Alter Domfriedhof St. Hedwig.
caption: In the title role of the opera Orpheus (1807) by the Viennese composer and journalist Friedrich August Kanne[8]
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