Greta Hofer (opera singer)
Greta Hofer, née Greta Köhler, pseudonym Greta Colere was a German opera singer.
Life
Hofer was born in Hanover then part of the Deutsches Kaiserreich. After the First World War, from 1919 to 1923, she registered at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannoversinging lessons.She then had her first engagement in Dortmund. Since 1927, she has been performing in England with the pseudonyme Greta Colere under the conductors Thomas Beecham, Adrian Boult and Malcolm Sargent.
During the Nazi era, Köhler married the tenor Laurenz Hofer and moved with him to Berlin.
At the end of the Second World War, she returned with her husband to the city that was 48% destroyed by the bombing of Hanover in World War II and opened a singing studio with him, which she continued alone as a widow from 1964.
Graduates of her classes included the singers Josef Metternich, Rudolf Schock and Gotthard Kronstein.
Hofer died in Hanover at the age of 94.