Aloyse Michalesi

Family grave

Aloyse Michalesi , married Aloyse Krebs-Michalesi , also Aloysia Krebs-Michalesi (born August 29, 1824 in Prague , † August 5, 1904 in Dresden ) was a German opera singer ( alto ).

Life

Her parents were the opera bassist Wenzel Michalesi (Czech Václav Michalička ; 1794-1836) and his wife Josephine († 1845), a singer. Aloyse Michalesi's younger sister Josefine Michalesi (born September 1, 1826 in Brno , † October 13, 1892) became a soprano.

The parents were members of the Prague Opera, left it in 1829 and went on art tours and finally came to the Mainz City Theater . When the father died there in 1836, the family had to rely on Aloyses to earn additional income. She received stage singing lessons from her mother, the theater's first female singer. When the mother went to London with the Schumann opera troupe in 1840, her daughter accompanied her. Later they were at the theater in Brno , where Aloyse Michalesi made her debut as "Elvira" in Mozart's Don Juan . There she worked for a number of years in young soprano and alto parts before moving to the Hamburg City Theater in 1846 after her mother's death . On the recommendation of Giacomo Meyerbeer , she accepted a position at the Dresden court theater in 1849. Her first role there was that of "Fides" in Meyerbeer's opera The Prophet , which had its first performance on January 30, 1850.

In 1850 she married the composer and court conductor Karl August Krebs (1804–1880), who had also come from Hamburg, and she has called herself "Krebs-Michalesi" since then. In December 1851 the daughter Marie Krebs was born, who would later have success as a pianist. Michalesi said goodbye to the Dresden Opera Association in 1870 and from then on only sang concerts and in church. As a singing teacher she gained a good reputation beyond the borders of Germany.

When Aloyse Michalesi died in August 1904, she had outlived her daughter by four years. She was buried in the Old Catholic Cemetery in Dresden.

Student (selection)

Ernestine Schumann-Heink

literature

Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 675 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Heinrich Ehrlich : Famous Singers of the Past and Gegenweit: A collection of 91 biographies and 90 portraits. AH Payne, 1895, p. 71 ( limited preview in Google book search).

Web links

Commons : Aloyse Michalesi - collection of images, videos and audio files

Aloyse Michalesi in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
Aloyse Michalesi at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon

Individual evidence

↑ Information according to tombstone. The year of birth is occasionally given as 1826, but this cannot be correct because her younger sister would then have been born only three days later.
^ Opera Singer Mer-My. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 5, 2014 ; Retrieved July 22, 2014 .

personal data
SURNAME	Michalesi, Aloyse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Krebs-Michalesi, Aloyse; Krebs-Michalesi, Aloysia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German opera singer (contralto)
DATE OF BIRTH	August 29, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH	Prague
DATE OF DEATH	5th August 1904
Place of death	Dresden

[1] Information according to tombstone. The year of birth is occasionally given as 1826, but this cannot be correct because her younger sister would then have been born only three days later.

[2] Opera Singer Mer-My. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 5, 2014 ; Retrieved July 22, 2014 .