Adelheid Günther

Adelheid Günther ( July 12, 1834 in Toruń - October 18, 1865 in Teplice ) was a German opera singer ( soprano ) and stage actress .

Life

Günther's parents chose her as a singer because of her powerful voice and good hearing. She was trained by several masters, including Caroline Caspari and Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen , and after her singing had only proven itself in concert halls, she took the stage for the first time in 1852 in Neisse as "Romeo" in Lucretia Borgia .

This was followed by engagements in Gdansk, Cologne, Prague, Breslau (1857–1861) and Rotterdam (Deutsche Oper, 1861–1863). This was followed by an engagement at the Detmold court theater, where, after a throat ailment had attacked her voice, she turned to acting after previous lessons with Marie Frey in Prague. Regardless of the short duration of the studies for acting and comedy, she started out on excellent roles, and it did not take long before she became one of the most popular and even critically appreciated actresses.

Günther, who previously achieved the greatest successes as "Fidelio", "Ortrud", "Fides", "Agathe", "Pamina" etc., then delighted as "Lady Milford", "Eboli", "Terzky", "Orsina" , "Maria Stuart" etc.

Your last engagement was in Düsseldorf. Her last appearance was a step in for a sick colleague as "Elisabeth" in Tannhäuser . Shortly afterwards she died of diabetes on October 18, 1865.

Her voice training was absolutely correct, her portament very finely developed and her coloratura , if not exactly brilliant, at least always safe, clean and testifying to serious study of art. Her expressive face, her poetic inspiration and a very eloquent art of gesticulation contributed to the fact that her representations understood how to work harmoniously.

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 365, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• KJ Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Unchanged edition. KG Saur, Bern, 1993, first volume A – L, ISBN 3-907820-70-3 , Sp. 1185.

This article is based on a public domain text from Ludwig Eisenberg's Large Biographical Lexicon of the German Stage in the 19th Century , 1903 edition.

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