Schefsky made her professional opera debut in 1868 at the
Bavarian State Opera as Orfeo in
Christoph Willibald Gluck's
Orfeo ed Euridice. She was one of the leading artists at that house up through 1883 and was the favorite performer of King
Ludwig II of Bavaria. While there she notably sang the role of Amneris in the Munich premiere of
Giuseppe Verdi's
Aida in 1877. In 1882 Schefsky portrayed Magdalena in the United Kingdom premiere of Wagner's
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London under the direction of
Hans Richter. After leaving the employ of the Bavarian State Opera in 1883, she sang at the
Opéra national du Rhin and the
Vienna State Opera in 1883/84. She spent her last few years on the stage performing at the
Berlin State Opera and the
Oper Frankfurt. Among the many roles she sang on stage were Azucena in Verdi's
Il trovatore, Fidès in
Giacomo Meyerbeer's
Le prophète, Frau Reich in
The Merry Wives of Windsor, Gertrude in
Ambroise Thomas's
Hamlet, Maddalena in Verdi's
Rigoletto, and Sieglinde in
The Ring Cycle. After retiring from the stage in the early 1890s, Schefsky taught singing in Munich. She died there in 1912 at the age of 69. ==References==