Aenne Michalsky

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Aenne Michalsky ( July 19, 1908 in Prague - November 7, 1986 in Vienna ; sometimes also in 1901 as the year of birth) was an Austrian opera singer with a soprano voice who was engaged at the Vienna State Opera from 1924 to 1955 and from 1928 to 1941 with the Salzburg Festival sang.

life and work

Little is known about Aenne Michalsky's life. However, the list of performances of the Vienna State Opera gives a good insight into the three decades of the singer's activity at this house. Michalsky took on a multitude of small roles, servants and maids, page, squire and slave, angelic voice, but occasionally sang leading roles like Liù in Turandot or Micaëla in Carmen . 98 times she played Countess Ceprano in Verdi's Rigoletto , 113 times the maiden Marianne Leitmetzerin in the Rosenkavalier by Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss , which became her star role .

She made her debut at the Salzburg Festival in 1928 as Second Lady in the Magic Flute and in 1933 as Second Servant in Frau ohne Schatten , but also sang the maiden Marianne Leitmetzerin in Rosenkavalier every year from 1932 to 1939 and again in 1941 . In Salzburg she could also be seen and heard as Zerlina in Don Giovanni and as Barbarina in the Marriage of Figaro , and in smaller roles in operas by Gluck , Strauss and Weber .

She sang under the direction of a number of well-known conductors, including Wilhelm Furtwängler , Robert Heger , Hans Knappertsbusch , Clemens Krauss , Dimitri Mitropoulos and Bruno Walter .

Michalsky was also a concert singer. For example, in 1931 she took on soprano roles in a RAVAG concert with works by Brahms , Bruckner and Wolf , conducted by Rudolf Nilius , and in Mahler's Second at the Wiener Konzerthaus , conducted by Anton Konrath . In 1946 she sang Alban Berg's Seven Early Songs from 1907 in the Mozart Hall of the Konzerthaus , the conductor was Bogo Leskovic .

Roles (selection)

Bizet :

  • Frasquita and Micaëla in Carmen

Alexander Borodin :

d'Albert :

Luck :

Engelbert Humperdinck :

Grain gold :

Lehár :

Leoncavallo :

Lortzing :

Mascagni :

Mozart :

Nicolai :

 

Puccini :

Rossini :

Smetana :

Johann Strauss :

Richard Strauss :

Soup :

Verdi :

Wagner :

Weber :

Wolf-Ferrari :

Audio documents

swell

Kaut, Josef: The Salzburg Festival 1920-1981, With a list of the works listed and the artists of the theater and music by Hans Jaklitsch . Residenz Verlag, Salzburg 1982, ISBN 3-7017-0308-6 , p. 253, 261 f., 265, 268 f., 271 f., 275, 278, 281 f., 285, 288, 292 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archives of the Salzburg Festival : Richard Strauss Die Frau ohne Schatten , accessed on December 13, 2016.
  2. ↑ Vienna Symphony Orchestra : R. Nilius, MICHALSKY, BRIX, Wernigk, P. Lorenzi, DOSTAL, WIENER ORATORIES ASSOCIATION / BRAHMS, H. Wolf, BRUCKNER ( Memento of 13 December 2016 Internet Archive ) , accessed on 13 December 2016 .
  3. ↑ Vienna Symphony Orchestra : A. KONRATH, MICHALSKY, R. DELMAR, BEHIND Hofer, F. CONTACTOR, SINGAKADEMIE / BEETHOVEN, R. STRAUSS, G. MAHLER ( Memento of 13 December 2016 Internet Archive ) , accessed on 13 December 2016th
  4. ↑ Vienna Symphony Orchestra : Lešković, MICHALSKY / WA MOZART, MOUNTAIN, Lešković ( Memento of 13 December 2016 Internet Archive ) retrieved on 13 December 2016th
  5. ↑ Discogs : Aenne Michalsky , accessed December 13, 2016.
  6. ↑ AllMusic: Richard Strauss Der Rosenkavalier , accessed on December 13, 2016.
  7. ↑ Jonathan Brown: Great Wagner Conductors: a listener's companion , Parrot Press 2014, p. 691, online version accessed December 13, 2016.
  8. ^ AllMusic: Great Singers and Musicians in Copenhagen, 1931-1939 , accessed December 13, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Michalsky, Aenne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1901 or 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1986
Place of death Vienna