Edouard de Reszke

Edouard de Reszke

Édouard de Reszke , birth name Edward Mieczisław Reszke (born December 22, 1853 in Warsaw , † May 25, 1917 in Garnek ) was a Polish-French opera singer (bass).

Life

The brother of the tenor Jean de Reszke and the soprano Joséfine de Reszke studied singing with Francesco Ciaffei in Warsaw, with Francesco Steller in Milan, with Filippo Coletti in Naples and with Giovanni Sbriglia in Paris. In 1876 he made his debut at the Grand Opéra as King of Egypt in Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida . He met Jules Massenet through his sister, who engaged him for the premiere of his opera Le roi de Lahore in 1879 at La Scala in Milan . In 1884 he performed with his brother in Massenet's Hérodiade at the Italian Theater .

Since the mid-1880s, both brothers were engaged at the Paris Opera. There Edouard played Don Diegùe at the side of his brother in the world premiere of Massenet's Le Cid . Further joint appearances followed in Mozart's Don Giovanni , Giacomo Meyerbeer's Die Huguenots and Die Afrikanerin as well as Gounod's Faust and Roméo et Juliette .

At the end of the 1880s, both brothers went to London with the tenor Jean Lasalle , where they sang Wagner operas (in Italian) in addition to the French repertoire . The brothers reached the high point of their careers when they performed Wagner's operas at the Metropolitan Opera with Édourd as König Marke in Tristan and Isolde and Wanderer in Siegfried . In 1903 Reszke took part in a series of opera recordings at Columbia Phonograph , so that from him (in contrast to his brother) samples of his singing have been preserved.

literature

• Karen Henson, Opera Acts: Singers and Performance in the Late Nineteenth Century , Cambridge University Press, 2015, ISBN 9781316194171 , pp. 167-69

Web links

• Édouard de Reszke at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
• cantabile - subito: The Reszke Family
• Opera Italiana - Edouard de RESZKE