Herta Talmar (4 July 1920 â€" 24 June 2010) was an Austrian operetta
singer (soprano) as well as an actress.Born in Salzburg, Talmar first
stood on a theatre stage at the age of eleven; in the operetta Die
Kaiserin by Leo Fall at the Salzburger Landestheater. She received her
singing training at the Salzburg Mozarteum. In 1952 she appeared at
the Landestheater Salzburg as a guest in the operetta Ballnacht in
Florenz by Edwin Burmester (music based on motives by Johann Strauss
II); after that she was engaged there permanently. From 1952 to 1957
Talmar was then a member of the ensemble at the Salzburg
Landestheater. There she appeared in numerous operetta productions,
among others in Die gold'ne Meisterin [de] (1953), Abschiedswalzer by
Ludwig Schmidseder. (1953, with Hubert Marischka as partner), Marietta
by Walter Kollo (1953), Her Last Waltz by Oscar Straus (1954) and in
August 1956 with Johannes Heesters in Franz Lehár's operetta The
Merry Widow. From 1957 Talmar worked as a freelancer, gave guest
performances and sang mainly for radio. Her repertoire mainly
consisted of operetta, but also musicals, folk songs, popular Viennese
songs and schlagers.Talmar became known especially for her numerous
operetta cross sections, which were created in the 1950s and 1960s and
published exclusively on Polydor records. Almost the entire popular
operetta repertoire was recorded, including Wiener Blut, Der
Bettelstudent, Gasparone, Der Vogelhändler, The Merry Widow, The
Count of Luxembourg, Der Zarewitsch, The Land of Smiles, Paganini, Die
Csárdásfürstin, Countess Mariza, The Circus Princess, The Dollar
Princess, A Waltz Dream, The Cousin from Nowhere, Schwarzwaldmädel,
Im weißen Rößl, Saison in Salzburg [fr], Viktoria und ihr Husar and
The Flower of Hawaii. In these recordings Talmar always sang the
soprano part under the musical direction of the operetta conductor
Franz Marszalek, with changing tenor partners such as Sándor Kónya,
Fritz Wunderlich, Franz Fehringer and Reinhold Bartel; further
performers were often Peter Alexander, Willy Hofmann, Rita Bartos [de]
and Renate Holm. In addition, Polydor produced a series of so-called
composer pictures in the 1950s. Here Herta Talmar often formed a
singing couple with Herbert Ernst Groh. With the orchestra Kurt
Edelhagen a cross-section of the musical My Fair Lady was also
produced, in which Talmar, however, only sang lady Eliza, while the
flower girl Eliza was sung by the cabaret artist and monologist Cissy
Kraner [de]Talmar made numerous complete recordings of operettas and
musical comedies on radio in the 1950s and 1960s, mostly on
Westdeutscher Rundfunk with Franz Marszalek. Under the musical
direction of Marszalek, complete operetta recordings such as Der
fidele Bauer (1954), Die Försterchristl (1955) were made, A Waltz
Dream (1954), Adrienne (1956), Gasparone (1956) and Auf der grünen
Wiese [de] by Jara Beneš [de] (1959). Because of her pleasant
speaking voice and her acting talent Talmar always took over the
speaking role of the respective part; often in comparable productions
for singers and actors separate interpreters were engaged. In
addition, countless single titles from operettas were recorded. Among
them there are many rarities. Herta Talmar Top Movies & Young Movies