Rosalind von Schirach

Rosalind von Schirach (21 April 1898 in Berlin – 13 December 1981[1] in Munich) was a German opera singer, mainly known as a lyric soprano.

From 1920 to 1925 she performed under the pseudonym Rosa Lind at the Leipzig Opera. From 1925 to 1928 she performed as Rosa Lind as a coloratura soprano at the National Theatre Mannheim. She later performed as a lyric soprano under her real name Rosalind von Schirach from 1930 to 1935 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. She moved to the Berlin State Opera in 1935.[2] She performed at the Royal Opera House in London in 1935.[3]^{: Ch 14}

She was portrayed as the "ideal image of a Nordic-Aryan singer" in the early Third Reich. She joined the Nazi Party in 1932.[3]^{: Ch 14} At the Deutsche Oper she organised a Nazi employees' cell, assisted by her lover baritone Gerhard Hüsch.[2]

She was the daughter of the theatre director Carl von Schirach, a member of the noble Sorbian Schirach family, and his American wife Emma Middleton Lynah Tillou. She had two brothers including Nazi youth leader Baldur von Schirach.[4]

She married Viktor Borsini Edler von Hohenstern.[1] She was a Christian,[3]^{: Ch 10} but may have left the Church.[3]^{: Ch 14}