Anna Sachse-Hofmeister
Anna Sachse-Hofmeister (26 July 1850 – 15 November 1904) was an Austrian operatic soprano, appearing at the Berlin Court Opera and other opera houses in Germany. Life. She was born in Gumpoldskirchen in Lower Austria in 1850, where her father Franz Hofmeister was a schoolteacher and director of the choir of St Michael's Church in the town. She had early lessons in singing and violin from her father, then from 1864 to 1866 attended Vienna Conservatory, studying violin from Georg Hellmesberger Sr. and singing from Adele Passy-Cornet; she afterwards trained further with Heinrich Proch, conductor  of the Vienna Court Opera. Her debut was as Leonora in Verdi's "Il trovatore" in Olmutz (present-day Olomouc) in 1871. In that year she was engaged as a member of the opera at Würzburg; in 1872 she joined the opera at Frankfurt am Main, leaving in 1876 to join the Berlin Court Opera. She married in 1878 Max Sachse (1847–1913), a tenor singer. She sang at the Royal Opera House in Dresden from 1878 to 1880, appearing with Marcella Sembrich and Emil Goetze, and in Leipzig from 1880 to 1882, appearing with ; then returned to Berlin until retirement  from the stage in 1888. She died in Berlin in 1904.. Sachse-Hofmeister's repertoire included operas of Mozart, and leading roles in Beethoven's "Fidelio", Weber's "Euryanthe" and Verdi's "Aida". In the operas of Richard Wagner, her roles included Elsa in "Lohengrin", Elisabeth in "Tannhäuser" and Sieglinde in "Die Walküre"; Wagner called her the Sieglinde of his dreams. She appeared in London in Wagner's opera cycle "Der Ring des Nibelungen" in 1884.