page_title: Maria Madlen Madsen
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Maria Madlen Madsen / Life / Career
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Frankfurt, Alte Oper um 1900
context_page_description: Maria Madlen Madsen, temporarily also under the stage name Gerda Hansi, was a German operatic soprano, theatre, film and television actress.
context_section_description: From 1929 to 1934 she was engaged by the Opernhaus Zürich in Switzerland, where she took part in the premiere of Zemlinsky's Der Kreidekreis in 1933.
  From 1934 she was engaged by the Oper Frankfurt. For Madsen began a twelve-year lasting great career in the Third Reich as coloratura-soubrette. She participated in the premiere of Werner Egk's Die Zaubergeige  on 22 May 1935 as Gretl and in the premiere of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana on 8 June 1937 as a soloist.
  Guest performances led Madsen to the Berlin State Opera, Wroclaw, Semperoper Dresden, Hamburg State Opera, Bavarian State Opera Munich and Staatstheater Stuttgart, abroad in the Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Belgrade, Bologna and Paris Opera.
  After the Second World War Madsen was engaged by Radio Frankfurt (later Hessischer Rundfunk) for archive and studio productions. During this time she met colleagues such as Trude Eipperle, Franz Fehringer, Ferdinand Frantz, Karl Friedrich, Herbert Hess, Otto von Rohr, Helge Rosvaenge, Heinrich Schlusnus, Erik Schumann, Georg Stern and Günther Treptow.
  She was preferably cast for comic stage roles such as Despina in Mozart's Così fan tutte, Zerline in Don Giovanni, Blondchen in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Marzelline in Beethoven's Fidelio, Ännchen in Weber's Der Freischütz, Marie in Lortzing's Zar und Zimmermann, Frau Fluth in Adam's Der Postillon von Lonjumeau, Musetta in Puccini's La Bohème, Adele in Strauss II's Die Fledermaus and as Christel in Zeller's Der Vogelhändler.
  In addition, she became known and highly esteemed as a concert and lieder singer, at least in the early 1950s she also sang popular songs on Hessischer Rundfunk radio.
caption: The Frankfurt Opera was the stage for Maria Madlen Madsen's singing career from 1934 onwards.
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