Anna von Mildenburg

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Anna von Mildenburg
Grave of the Bahr family

Anna von Mildenburg (born Bellschan von Mildenburg , married Anna Bahr-Mildenburg ; born November 29, 1872 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † January 27, 1947 in Vienna) was an Austrian opera singer ( soprano ) and celebrated Wagner interpreter.

Life

She was a student of Rosa Papier at the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna . By working with Cosima Wagner and Gustav Mahler , she acquired a comprehensive ability to represent.

She began her first engagement in 1895 at the Hamburg City Theater (now the Hamburg State Opera ), where she sang the role of Brünnhilde , one of the most difficult Wagner roles. She began a love affair with Gustav Mahler , who had been Kapellmeister at this house since 1891, but by 1897 it had cooled down considerably. In 1897 she sang Kundry in Bayreuth .

Although the relationship with her was over, Gustav Mahler brought her to the Vienna Court Opera in 1898 , where she had enormous success in Mahler's famous productions. She was also active as a singer across Europe. Anna von Mildenburg was a celebrated member of the Vienna Court Opera until 1917 and returned there as a guest until 1930. The new production of Tristan and Isolde , in which Mildenburg sang Isolde , Alfred Roller created the set and Mahler conducted, is still a legendary performance today.

From 1904 she had a relationship with Hermann Bahr , which culminated in their marriage in 1909 after his divorce. They moved to Salzburg together in 1912 . In 1920 she then accepted a position as a "teacher of the art of representation" at the Academy of Music in Munich . After Bahr's death in 1934, she worked as his estate administrator and tried, with moderate success, to organize his writings.

Anna von Mildenburg was a guest at the Salzburg Festival 1922–1927 in Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Das Salzburger Großes Welttheater and in 1929 taught at the International Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg .

Her estate is now together with that of her husband in the Austrian Theater Museum in Vienna.

honors and awards

literature

  • Joseph Gregor :  Bahr-Mildenburg, Anna. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 540 ( digitized version ).
  • Karin Martensen: The woman directs. Anna Bahr-Mildenburg as director of the Ring des Nibelungen (= contributions to the cultural history of music. 7). With an appendix: director's books on Walküre, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung. Allitera-Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86906-506-9 (also: Hanover, University of Music, Drama and Media, dissertation, 2012).
  • Anna Bahr-Mildenburg , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 25/1947 of June 9, 1947, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  • Anna Bahr-Mildenburg: Memories. Vienna Literary Institute, Vienna ao 1921.

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personal data
SURNAME Mildenburg, Anna von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mildenburg, Bellschan von (maiden name); Bahr-Mildenburg, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian opera singer (soprano) and celebrated Wagner interpreter
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1947
Place of death Vienna