- She was a German operatic soprano who sang at leading opera houses on both sides of the Atlantic.
- New York City audiences had their first chance to hear the soprano's fine voice in 1960, when she sang at the Metropolitan Opera in Arabella. She later sang there in Le nozze di Figaro, Un ballo in maschera, Orfeo ed Euridice, Die Fledermaus and La boheme.
- The Anneliese Rothenberger rose (aka Oregold rose) is named after her.
- From 1954, she became a guest singer at the Vienna State Opera.
- Anneliese Rothenberger had an active international performance career which spanned from 1942 to 1983.
- When her husband died after 45 years of marriage in 1999, she settled in Switzerland, on Lake Constance.
- A large number of complete recordings and highlights discs bear witness to her opera work: among these are The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, Idomeneo, Arabella, Die Fledermaus, Orfeo ed Euridice, Hänsel und Gretel, The Merry Widow, La bohème, La traviata, and Martha, and a much-celebrated The Marriage of Figaro.
- She specialized in the lyric coloratura soprano repertoire, and was particularly admired for her interpretations of the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Strauss.
- In the 1970s, she became a popular television personality, and had her own television show: Anneliese Rothenberger gibt sich die Ehre.
- She retired in 1983.
- Anneliese Rothenbergerreceivd the Dutch Edison Award in 1969.
- She studied with Erika Müller, and took up her first engagement in Koblenz in 1942.
- She also sang in the New York Metropolitan in "Der Rosenkavalier"; her performance in that opera prompted Lotte Lehmann to call her 'the best Sophie in the world'.
- She also appeared in many contemporary operas by Henze, Britten, Hindemith, Carl Orff, Pfitzner, and Menotti.
- 1954 saw her make her debut at the Salzburg Festival, and she appeared in Rolf Liebermann's Schule der Frauen, three years later.
- Herbert von Karajan chose her to appear alongside Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Sena Jurinac for the filmed performance of Der Rosenkavalier at the Salzburg Festival.
- In 1946, Günther Rennert offered her a job at the Hamburg Opera House, where she sang in Rennert's now famous production of Alban Berg's Lulu twenty years later, a role she would also perform at the Munich Opera Festival, under the direction of Christoph von Dohnányi.
- She wrote an autobiography in 1973: Melodie meines Lebens.
- Having favoured light and high-register lyric parts in the beginning of her career, by the mid-1960s she changed to roles with a stronger dramatic emphasis, including Konstanze in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail (for example 1965 with Fritz Wunderlich in the now legendary Salzburg Festival production staged by Giorgio Strehler and designed by Luciano Damiani), Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Zdenka in Richard Strauss's Arabella, Marie in Berg's Wozzeck, Soeur Constance in Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites, and Violetta in La traviata on stage.
- In 2003, she received the Echo Klassik Award for lifetime achievement.
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