Wagnerheldinnen: Biografien - Starke Frauen, cartea 2

Kirsten Liese, born in Berlin in 1964, studied music education and German philology, followed by an apprenticeship at a daily newspaper and further studies in broadcasting. Since 1994 she has worked as an independent journalist and author specializing in opera, concerts, and cinema for the German broadcast network ARD (Deutschlandfunk, WDR, SWR, BR, MDR), newspapers (Berliner Morgenpost, Rhein Neckar-Zeitung, Nürnberger Nachrichten), magazines (Das Orchester) and online publications (BR Online, Kinofenster). She also edits sheet music for Bärenreiter in Kassel and Doblinger in Vienna. In 2007 her book Elisabeth Schwarzkopf: from Flower Maiden to Marschallin was published in Germany and Austria, followed the next year by a revised American/UK edition (Amadeus Press, New York).