Anna Hoffmann (singer)
Anna Hoffmann , also Anna Hofmann ( November 22, 1864 in Bodenbach (Podmokly) , Bohemia - after 1930) was an opera singer ( alto ).
Life
Hoffmann completed her vocal training at the Pivoda Singing School in Prague . She made her stage debut in 1884 at the Stadttheater Troppau. From 1885 to 1896 she sang at the Deutsches Theater in Prague , where she was mainly employed as a Wagner singer by the then director Angelo Neumann. In 1896, according to other sources in 1898, she went to the Weimar Court Theater and in 1900 to the Hanover Court Theater . From 1903 to 1906 she was engaged as a contralto at the Cologne Opera House . Further engagements followed at the Stadttheater Essen (1905–1907) and at the Stadttheater Mainz (1907–1914), where she ended her stage career in 1914.
She gave guest performances at the Berlin Court Opera (1897), the Leipzig Opera House (1900), the Hamburg City Theater (1903), the Mannheim Court Theater (1904) and the Wiesbaden Court Theater (1909). In 1910 she performed with great success at the Covent Garden Opera in London . After finishing her singing career, she worked as a singing teacher in Wiesbaden, and then in Kolín in the 1930s .
She was a good alto, who achieved great success with her effective voice and classy playing. This musical singer impressed as "Azucena", "Brunhilde", "Ortrud", "Amneris", "Fides" etc. Other roles were "Mary" in Der Fliegende Holländer , the alto parts "Fricka", "Erda", " Waltraute ”and“ Floßhilde ”in Der Ring des Nibelungen ,“ Brangäne ”in Tristan and Isolde ,“ Klytämnestra ”in Elektra and the Knusperhexe in Hansel and Gretel .
Hoffmann also appeared as a concert and oratorio singer. In 1894 she took part in the premiere of Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek's Requiem in Prague .
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 441, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Volume 3: Franc – Kaidanoff. Fourth, enlarged and updated edition. Munich 2003, p. 2113. ISBN 3-598-11598-9 .
Web links
- Anna Hoffmann at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoffmann, Anna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hofmann, Anna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Opera singer (alto) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 22, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bodenbach (Podmokly) , Bohemia |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1930 |