Background
Vogl was born Therese Thoma in Tutzing, Bavaria, where she also spent the last years of her life.
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Therese Vogl
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Vogl studied at the Munich Conservatoire and made her operatic debut at the Karlsruhe Hoftheater in 1865.
Career
They are buried together in Tutzing. Her operatic debut at Munich came the following year, in the role of Casilda in a performance of Daniel Auber"s Louisiana part du diable. She played the role of Sieglinde in Richard Wagner"s Die Walküre at the Munich Court Opera on 26 June 1870, with husband Heinrich playing the role of Siegmund opposite her.
Therese and Heinrich Vogl were among the first performers to play the title parts in Tristan und Isolde, being highly regarded in those roles.
She was also the first performer to play the role of Brünnhilde in the United Kingdom — at a performance of Ring cycle staged at London"s Her Majesty"s Theatre, with Anton Seidl conducting and her spouse singing Loge and Siegfried. On the basis of these "Ring" performances in London, the influential critic Herman Klein described her voice as being a light dramatic soprano, similar to Christine Nilsson"s, with a very clear head register and elegant phrasing and diction.
Klein also described her final scene as Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung as "thrilling". According to Klein, she was one of the finest artists among the early crop of Wagnerian dramatic sopranos but her and her husband"s opportunities to appear at the Bayreuth Festival dried up after they quarreled with the Wagner family.
She retired from the operatic stage in 1892 as her voice had begun showing signs of deterioration.
Her final performance was as Isolde, in Munich.
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Germany