Born in
Hanover, Wedekind grew up at
Lenzburg Castle in the Swiss canton of
Aargau, and studied singing with the famous soprano and music teacher
Aglaja Orgeni. Wedekind made her debut in 1894 as Frau Fluth in
The Merry Wives of Windsor by Otto Nicolai Wedekind took part in the 1907 world premiere of the opera
Die Schönen von Fogaras by
Alfred Grünfeld, as well as in the Dresden premiere of Engelbert Humperdinck's
Hänsel und Gretel. After she left the Dresden Court Opera in the same year, performances as a concert singer predominantly followed. Her brothers, the writers Donald and Frank Wedekind, who had no professional success at the time, received occasional financial support from her sister. Wedekind was one of the first female coloratura sopranos in Germany and an outstanding representative of her field. She gave more than a thousand performances in Germany, Prague, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Budapest, Stockholm, Paris and London before becoming an internationally sought-after singing teacher between 1914 and 1930. From 1930 she lived in seclusion in Switzerland, where she died in Zürich in 1944 at the age of 75. == Awards ==