Anna Beck-Radecke
Anna Beck-Radecke , née Anna Radecke ( December 19, 1861 in Osnabrück , Kingdom of Hanover - 1918 in Berlin , German Empire ) was a German opera singer ( alto ).
Life
The younger sister of the soprano Louise Radecke (1846–1916) was discovered because of her beautiful voice during a stay in Reichenhall when she sang for a charitable cause in church. She was trained as a contralto by Auguste Götze in Leipzig and her former student Molly von Kotzebue in Dresden.
Radecke began her stage career in 1881 at the Cologne Opera . In the following year she moved to the court theater of Wiesbaden, to which she belonged until 1889.
From 1889 to 1891 she played again at the Cologne City Theater. From 1891 until her retirement in 1903 she stayed at the Hoftheater Hannover.
She was married to Caesar Beck (1850–1925), but they divorced in 1897. Most recently she lived as a teacher in Berlin. She died there in 1918.
reception
She was valued on the stage as an opera and operetta singer. Her stage roles were “ Orpheus ” by Gluck , “Adriano” in Rienzi , “Ortrud” in Lohengrin , “Fricka” in the Ring of the Nibelung , “Azucena” in the Troubadour , “Amneris” in Aida and “Fides” “In the prophet of Meyerbeer .
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 71, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Anna Beck-Radecke on her 150th birthday at der-neue-merker.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Elmar Buck, Daniela Franke, Cologne, the city and its theater: Places and People , Cologne 2007, p. 286
- ^ Ludwig Eisenberg: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the 19th century , List, Leipzig 1903, p. 71
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beck-Radecke, Anna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Radecke, Anna (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (alto) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 19, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Osnabrück , Kingdom of Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1918 |
| Place of death | Berlin , German Empire |