You are bidding on one signed photo as well as one Handwritten album sheet the Opera singer (soprano) and music teacher Irma Beilke (1904-1989).



From the estate of a Berlin autograph collector who personally received autographs from singers and actors from the 1930s to the 1970s or had the artists send them to him by post (some of the envelopes are still there).


1.) Nice photo, on the motif side with a personal dedication: "From the heart! Irma Beilke. 'Pamina'."

Format: 13.6 x 8.3 cm (image area 11.6 x 8.1 cm).

Pamina: Character in the opera "The Magic Flute" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


2.) A4 album sheet, written in your own hand.

On beautiful handmade paper (Zerkall handmade paper).


"Music delights the human heart!

All the best!

Irma Beilke.

13. IV. 1954."

Enclosed in protective sheet, with handwritten attribution "Irma Beilke Singer."

Condition: Excellent condition. The album sheet folded lengthwise and crosswise. bplease note the pictures too!

Internal note: Opera 21-04

OverIrma Beilke (Source: wikipedia):

Irma Beilke (born 24. August 1904 in Berlin; died 20. December 1989 there) was a German opera singer (soprano) and music teacher.

Life: The merchant's daughter Beilke received her musical training in Berlin from HT Dreyer and Gertrud Wirthschaft. Contrary to her father's wishes, she made her debut in 1926 at the Berlin Municipal Opera, where she stayed until 1928. She then moved to the Landestheater Oldenburg (1928–1930) and the Leipzig Opera House (1930–1936). She continued her training as a coloratura and lyric soprano and returned to Berlin as a well-known singer, where she was again permanently engaged at the opera from 1936 to 1958. She also had guest performance contracts with the operas in Leipzig and Munich, as well as in Vienna (1941–1945). She gave further guest performances in London, Paris, Brussels, Antwerp, Milan, Florence, Barcelona, ​​Zagreb and Belgrade.

She cast roles in the premieres of Der Eulenspiegel (1936, Hans Stieber), The Smart Maid (1939, Julius Weismann), The Windsbraut (1941, Winfried Zillig), Capriccio (1942) and Prussian Fairy Tale (1952).

As a singer, she was also hired for roles in films, and many of her pieces were recorded on records. She has been giving private singing lessons since 1954. She gave her final performance in 1958 as Mimì in La Bohème in the Theater des Westens building. From 1958 to 1969 she was a professor at the Berlin University of Music, then she retired. In 1980 she was made an honorary member of the Berlin State Opera.

Opera roles (selection)

Blondchen in The Abduction from the Seraglio (Glyndebourne Festival 1936; Royal Opera House London 1938, Salzburg Festival 1939)

Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, Royal Opera London 1938

Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro (Salzburg Festival 1942)

Colobine in Arlecchino or The Windows (Berlin Opera 1946)

Pamina in Magic Flute (Salzburg Festival 1943)

Soprano solo in the 9th Symphony by Beethoven (Salzburg Festival 1943)

in Amelia goes to the ball (Berlin)

regina in Mathis the Painter (1948, Berlin)

Despina in Così fan tutte

Mrs. Fluth in The Merry Wives of Windsor

Title roles in Undine, Manon, La traviata

Rose Friquet in The Hermit's Bell

Lola in Cavalleria rusticana

Voice of the forest bird in Siegfried

Norina in Don Pasquale

Agnes in Poor Heinrich

Gilda in Rigoletto

Oscar in A Masquerade Ball
Life: The merchant's daughter Beilke received her musical training in Berlin from HT Dreyer and Gertrud Wirthschaft. Contrary to her father's wishes, she made her debut in 1926 at the Berlin Municipal Opera, where she stayed until 1928. She then moved to the Landestheater Oldenburg (1928–1930) and the Leipzig Opera House (1930–1936). She continued her training as a coloratura and lyric soprano and returned to Berlin as a well-known singer, where she was again permanently engaged at the opera from 1936 to 1958. She also had guest performance contracts with the operas in Leipzig and Munich, as well as in Vienna (1941–1945). She gave further guest performances in London, Paris, Brussels, Antwerp, Milan, Florence, Barcelona, ​​Zagreb and Belgrade. As a singer, she was also hired for roles in f