Inge Borkh

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Inge Borkh (born 1921) is a Swiss soprano.

Born Ingeborg Simon in Mannheim, Germany, she was one of the leading dramatic sopranos of the 1950s and 1960s, though she rarely recorded. Her most famous roles were Lady Macbeth in Verdi's Macbeth and the title roles in Richard Strauss's Salome and Elektra. She can be heard on CD performing Scenes from Elektra and Salome, conducted by Fritz Reiner in the 1950s (RCA 09026 68636-2) as well as a famous 1960 version of Elektra with the Dresden Staatskapelle Opera Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Karl Böhm (Deutsche Grammophon 445 329-2). Was married to Yugoslavian bass Alexander Welitsch (1906-1991)

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