Alice Guszalewicz

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Alice Guszalewicz in the role of Salome, photo from around 1910

Alice Guszalewicz , née Elisabeth Ludmilla Farkas , (born September 17, 1866 in Budapest , Austrian Empire , † November 26, 1940 in Munich ) was a Hungarian opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

In 1897 she married the tenor Eugen Guszalewicz (1867–1907) and was trained in singing by him. In 1903 she began her stage career at the Theater of Bern (Switzerland). In 1905 she made a guest appearance at the Cologne Opera House as " Queen of Saba " in the opera of the same name by Karl Goldmark and as "Isolde" in the opera Tristan und Isolde . Shortly thereafter, she was engaged to the Cologne Opera House with a six-year contract .

Alice remained a member of the Cologne Opera until 1916 and during this time gave numerous guest appearances at leading theaters, such as 1905 at the Hoftheater Karlsruhe , 1907 at the Opera House of Düsseldorf and 1908 at the Bremen City Theater . In 1908 she made a guest appearance at the Dresden Court Opera as " Salome " in the opera of the same name by Richard Strauss and achieved a sensational success in this role here, as at other theaters.

In 1908 she made guest appearances at the Leipzig Opera House , at the Wiesbaden Court Theater (1910 as “Salome”), at the Berlin Court Opera (1911 as “Brünnhilde” and as “Isolde”), as well as in Brussels , Paris and Madrid . In 1905 she had a great success in the German premiere of Isidore de Lara's opera Messalina (in the title role) in Cologne . The opera saw 27 performances.

Guszalewicz's grave in Cologne's Melaten cemetery

She also gave guest appearances at the Frankfurt Opera House (1907), again at the Bremen City Theater (1908) and at the Munich Court Opera (1910 as Salome in the opera of the same name by Richard Strauss ). Her stage repertoire includes: the "Leonore" in Fidelio ( Ludwig van Beethoven ), the "Adriano" in Rienzi ( Richard Wagner ), the "Venus" in Tannhäuser (Richard Wagner), the title character in Ingwelde by Max von Schillings , the " Elektra " by Richard Strauss, the "Bertha" in the Prophet by Giacomo Meyerbeer , the "Santuzza" in Cavalleria rusticana ( Pietro Mascagni ), the heroine in Mascagni's Amica and the "Maria" in A basso posto by Nicola Spinelli .

After finishing her career, she worked as a singing teacher in Munich. One of her students was her daughter Genia Guszalewicz (1902–1971), who, like her mother, became a successful opera singer. Her eldest daughter, Paulina Olga Guszalewicz, was a well-known press illustrator in the Bonn republic after the Second World War .

Despite her successes, Alice Guszalewicz is as good as forgotten today. She died at the age of 74 in Munich and is buried in Cologne in the Melaten cemetery (hallway 52).

Web links

Commons : Alice Guszalewicz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Leinweber light and shadow on the stage in Kölner Stadtanzeiger from August 4, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Guszalewicz, Alice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Farkas, Elisabeth Ludmilla (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1940
Place of death Munich