Amalie steel

Amalie Stahl , also Amalia (born around 1855 ; died after 1929 ) was a presumed Austrian opera singer with an alto voice . She was only briefly engaged at the Vienna Court Opera and then completed an international career throughout Europe and South America.

Life, work

There is hardly any biographical information about Amalie Stahl, only many of the roles she sang are known. She completed her training with the famous mezzo-soprano and singing teacher Mathilde Marchesi de Castrone (1812–1913) in Vienna and made her debut in 1878 at the kuk Hofoper in Vienna. The database of the Vienna State Opera names Amneris in Verdi's Aida on May 25, 1878 as the first appearance , but the database was not completed until 1951. In the same year she took over Erda, Schwertleite and Waltraute in the Wagnerischer Ring des Nibelungen , whereby Siegfried and Götterdämmerung were Viennese premieres. She stayed at the Court Opera for only three years, but quickly built up a broad repertoire, which included important works from the Italian, French and German fields.

From 1881 she was constantly traveling. First she made a guest appearance in Bologna, as Amneris and in the world premiere of an opera by Stefano Gobatti . Kunkel's Musical Review announced in the April 1882 issue that she had been signed to Scala in Milan. In 1882 and 1883 she could be heard at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, as Amneris, Ortrud and in a luxuriously cast world premiere, Velléda by Charles Lenepveu , with Adelina Patti , Ernest Nicolini , Édouard de Reszke , Antonio Cotogni and Alvina Valleria . In 1884 she was engaged at the Teatro Verdi in Padua as Laura in La Gioconda . In 1885 she made her first trip to South America, where she performed at the Teatro de l'Opera in Buenos Aires and at the Teatro Pedro II in Rio de Janeiro . In 1887 and 1888 she sang in three opera houses in Rome, in Costanzi , in Apollo and in Argentina . In 1889 she was engaged with Julián Gayarre at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, as Leonora in La favorita . In 1890 she was seen and heard again in Buenos Aires. At the turn of 1890/91 she was engaged at the Teatro Real in Madrid, as Azucena, Angelina, Page Urbain and as Queen in Hamlet . From 1891 to 1896 she made several guest appearances with Italian troops in the aquarium of St. Petersburg, as Siebel, Maddalena and Pierotto, and later as Ortrud, Ulrica and Azucena. In between there was an engagement at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo in 1892 . In 1897 she was again a guest in Rome as Lidora. After that there is no more trace.