Alexandru Ionitza

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Alexandru Ionitza , originally Alexandru Ioniță , (born October 24, 1948 in Iași ; † January 2, 2010 in Düsseldorf ) was a Romanian opera singer with a tenor voice .

Life

Alexandru Ionitza studied in Romania initially engineering , but then had to train his voice. He studied singing at the Bucharest Music Academy . His debut as an opera singer took place in Bucharest . He later left Romania and sang on various stages in the west . From 1971 to 1973 he had an engagement at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt . This was followed by further engagements at the Bielefeld City Theater (1973–1976) and at the Münster City Theaters (1976–1984). In the 1980/81 season he sang the title role in a new Werther production in Münster (premiere: March 1981, director: Reinhold Schubert); he presented himself as "a bel canto tenor of enormous power and good stamina".

In October 1983 he appeared in the title role of the opera Hoffmanns Erzählungen at the De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam . For many years he had a guest contract for opera and operetta at the State Theater on Gärtnerplatz in Munich . In the 1981/82 season he took over the role of Fenton in a new production of the opera Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor ; his Fenton had a "clean intonation, sympathetic agile tenor". In the 1981/82 season he also sang Edwin in the Kálmán operetta Die Csárdásfürstin (premiere: January 1982), alongside Tamara Lund in the title role, “dazzling looking, with aristocratic tenor tones” . In the 1982/83 season he took over Rodolfo in a new production of the opera La Bohème (premiere: October 1982, director: Kurt Pscherer ); he designed his role with "moving innocence of expression" and "height-free, technically dazzling voice". In the 1982/83 season he also sang Lysander in a production of the Britten opera A Midsummer Night's Dream . In the 1983/84 season Lyonel followed in a new production of the opera Martha (director: Wolfram Mehring ).

In 1984 Ionitza was engaged by the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf / Duisburg under the direction of Grischa Barfuss . He was a permanent member of the ensemble there until 1996, and then again from 1999 until his death. Ionitza made her debut in Düsseldorf in 1984 as Sir Henry Morosus in the comic opera Die Schweigsame Frau by Richard Strauss . There he sang mainly the tenor roles in the lyric subject and in the youth-dramatic subject. His leading roles included Alfredo in La traviata (including in the 1987/88 season in Duisburg), Faust in Margarethe (new production in the 1986/87 season, premiere: July 1987 in Düsseldorf), Rodolfo in La Bohème and Des Grieux in Manon . In the 1987/88 season he sang the title role in a new production of Hoffmann's Stories in Düsseldorf (director: Kurt Horres ). In the title role he was "very engaged in the acting", but vocally he was "mostly overwhelmed" with the dramatic passages of the role. He gave "vocally everything, but sang constantly at the limit of his possibilities [...], he only managed a few lyrical passages in which his brightly timed tenor sounded balanced"; its height sounded "thin and strained". In the 1990/91 season he sang the role of Fenton in Düsseldorf in July 1991 in a new production of the opera Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor ; He then sang this role in the following season 1991/92 when it was resumed. In the 1991/92 season he sang the court astrologer in the opera Der goldene Hahn at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein (director: Pet Halmen ; premiere in Duisburg in December 1991 / premiere in Düsseldorf in March 1992); in the “far too high-altitude” part, however, his voice sounded “tortured and completely overstrained”. In the 1992/93 season he took over Rodolfo in La Bohème in some of the repertoire performances in Düsseldorf . In the 1992/93 season he also sang Minister Pong in a new production of Turandot (premiere in Duisburg: April 1993; director: Pet Halmen). In the 1993/94 season he sang the fourth miner in a new production by Parsifal (director: Kurt Horres) in Düsseldorf. In the 1994/95 season he was the “sharply characterizing” neighbor Don Amsel in a production of the opera Die Wundersame Schustersfrau (director: Elmar Fulda) in Duisburg.

Later he sang at his headquarters also focus operetta roles and appearances for playing tenor . In the last years of his engagement Ionitza made the change to the tenoral character subject. In November 2005 he took over Menelaus in a new production of the operetta Die Schöne Helena . In May 2007 he appeared in two concert performances of Richard Wagner's music drama Tristan und Isolde in the Tonhalle Düsseldorf , where he delivered a “poignant study” of the old shepherd “with his own seriousness”. In November 2007 he was Feri von Kereke's convincing bon vivant at Theater Duisburg in a gala concert of the German Red Cross with excerpts from Emmerich Kálmán's operetta Die Csárdásfürstin . In the 2008/09 season he sang the multifaceted Iro in the opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria by Claudio Monteverdi , which he created as a comical dandy. At the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Ionitza most recently sang the judge in Un ballo in maschera (September / October 2009), the legation councilor Kromov in The Merry Widow (November 2009) and the roles of Spalanzani and Nathanael in Hoffmann's stories (November / December 2009) . Ionitza's last role was the Second Nazarener in Richard Strauss' Salome in December 2009 .

He gave guest performances at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Belmonte), at the Cologne Opera (Alfredo, Nemorino), at the Stuttgart State Opera (Alfredo), at the Vienna Volksoper (Belmonte), at the Opéra de Wallonie in Liège (Faust) and on San Diego Opera House (Rodolfo). He also sang in Basel , Amsterdam , Italy , Poland , Bulgaria and Finland .

In the 1986/87 season he sang the title role in Hoffmann's stories at the Augsburg Municipal Theaters . 1987–1988 he sang Hoffmann at the Bregenz Festival . In 1991 he appeared at the Vienna State Opera as Matteo in the opera Arabella by Richard Strauss. In the summer of 1993 he appeared at the Kamptal Festival on the castle ruins of Gars in Lower Austria as the title hero in Hoffmann's stories .

Alexandru Ionitza also worked as a voice trainer and lecturer for singing at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf.

Alexandru Ionitza was married to the Finnish soprano Tamara Lund (1941–2005). He often appeared with Lund, especially at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, where Lund was also committed for many years, in operettas and at operetta concerts. In 1992, alongside Tamara Lund (as Sylva Varescu), Edwin sang in a concert performance of the operetta Die Csárdásfürstin in the Munich Philharmonic on Gasteig . The daughter of Tamara Lund and Alexandru Ionitza, Maria Lund , is also a singer.

In January 2010 Ionitza succumbed to a long, serious illness . A few days before his death, on December 29, 2009, he was the second Nazarener in Salome for the last time on the stage of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Other sources gave 1949 or 1953 as the years of birth, albeit always unconfirmed.
  2. ↑ Alexandru IONITZA died on January 2, 2010 ; Obituary in: DER NEUE MERKER , as of January 2010 (web link no longer available online)
  3. ↑ Karl Riebe: WERTHER . Performance review. In: Orpheus . Issue May 5, 1981, page 385/386.
  4. ↑ Imre Fabian: Obsolete from reception history . Performance review. In: Opernwelt , edition 12/1983; Page 17.
  5. ↑ Manfred Strauss: THE FUNNY WOMEN OF WINDSOR . Performance review. In: Orpheus - the music theater magazine . Issue January 1982. Page 41/42.
  6. ↑ Manfred Strauss: DIE CSARADASFÜRSTIN . Performance review. In: Orpheus - the music theater magazine . Edition March 1982. Page 222/223.
  7. ↑ Manfred Strauss: LA BOHEME . Performance review. In: Orpheus - the music theater magazine . Issue January 1983. Pages 84/85.
  8. ↑ Marcello Santi: ABOVE ALL A VISION . Performance review. In: Orpheus - the music theater magazine . Issued June 1983. Page 546.
  9. ↑ Marcello Santi: LUCKY IN THERE . Performance review. In: Orpheus - the music theater magazine . Issued March 1984. page 210.
  10. ↑ Manfred Müller: WORKSHOP LEVEL . Performance review. In: Orpheus . Issue April 4, 1988. Page 281/282.
  11. ↑ M. Kosel: DÜSSELDORF: TALES OF HOFFMANN . Performance review. In: Opera glasses . Issue April 4, 1988. page 30.
  12. ↑ Martin Müller: PLUCKED CHICKEN . Performance review. In: Orpheus , edition February 2, 1992. Page 23.
  13. ↑ Klaus Kirchberg: Unfulfilled Dreams of Love . Performance review. In: Opernwelt , edition May 5, 1995. Page 23´´38 / 39.
  14. ↑ A brisk fun performance review from November 5, 2005, Online Musik Magazin
  15. ^ Düsseldorf: Tsunamis of the mighty ocean of emotions ( Memento from May 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). Review in: DER NEUE MERKER from May 19, 2007
  16. ↑ http://www.tomasz-konieczny.com/pdf/Tristan_und_Isolde_Kritik_OMM_20. (Link not available)
  17. ↑ In the service of a good cause . Concert review in: DerWesten from November 18, 2007
  18. ^ The Belcantistics of the Gods Greece ; Performance review in: Der Opernfreund , 37th year (web link no longer available online)
  19. ↑ Alexandru Ionitza at Operabase (engagements and dates).
  20. ↑ List of roles by Alexandru Ionitza in: Chronik der Wiener Staatsoper 1945-2005 , p. 487. Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2006. ISBN 3-85409-449-3
  21. ↑ Alexandru Ionitza . Obituary on the homepage of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein
  22. ↑ Maria Lundin isä Alexandru Ionitza kuollut www.hs.fi. dated January 12, 2010
  23. ↑ Marcello Santi: FOAM-BORN BEAUTY . Performance review. In: Orpheus edition April 4, 1992. Page 42
personal data
SURNAME Ionitza, Alexandru
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ioniță, Alexandru
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian opera singer and tenor
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Iași , Romania
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 2010
Place of death Dusseldorf , Germany