Aline Sanden
Aline Sanden , née Aline Kelch , (born November 26, 1879 in Berlin , † May 8, 1955 in Berlin) was a German opera singer ( soprano ) and librettist.
Life
She gained her first experiences at Berlin operetta and cabaret stages before she received singing lessons from Ms. Albrecht-Fraude and Valeska von Facius in Berlin. After her debut as a coloratura soprano in Berlin in 1899 , she worked at the Stadttheater von Plauen , the Cologne Opera and the Vienna Volksoper before she was appointed to the Leipzig Opera House in 1909 by the conductor Arthur Nikisch, to which she belonged for 12 years. After a season at the Great Volksoper in Berlin, she moved to the Munich State Opera , where she stepped down from the stage in 1930 in order to work as a music teacher in her native city.
Guest performances and concerts brought her great successes in Berlin, Vienna , London , Paris , Amsterdam , Brussels and also in the USA .
Aline Sanden was married twice. First marriage with the baritone Walter Soomer and the second since 1927 with the composer Charles Flick-Steger .
Works
In 1920 she wrote with composer Lukas Böttcher opera Salambo after the novel by Gustave Flaubert , in the same year in the State Theater Altenburg its premiere had. Before that, she had already written the text book for the operetta Die wilde Komtesse by the Danish composer Emil Robert-Hansen . It was premiered in Eisenach in 1913 . In 1935 she wrote the libretto for her husband for the opera Leon and Edrita, which premiered in Krefeld in 1936, based on the comedy Woe to the one who lies! by Franz Grillparzer .
literature
- Sanden, Aline. In: Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . 3. Edition. Vol. 4, Saur, Bern 1997-2000, DNB 956950736 , p. 3045.
- Sanden, Aline. In: German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 8, p. 693. (Excerpt from Google Books)
Web links
- Aline Sanden in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Aline Sanden at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
Individual evidence
- ^ Klaus Ley: Flaubert's "Salammbô" in music, painting, literature and film. Tübingen 1998, ISBN 3-8233-5185-0 , pp. 189-197. (online on: Google Books. )
- ^ Franz Stieger: Opernlexikon. Part III (librettists), Volume 3, Tutzing 1981, ISBN 3-7952-0319-8 .
- ^ Opera Composers: H stanford.edu
- ^ John London: Theater Under the Nazis. New York et al. 2000, ISBN 0-7190-5991-7 , p. 172.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sanden, Aline |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chalice, Aline (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (soprano) and librettist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 1955 |
| Place of death | Berlin |