Anna Maria Wilhelmine van Hasselt-Barth

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Anna Maria Wilhelmine van Hasselt-Barth, lithograph by Franz Eybl , 1851

Anna Maria Wilhelmine van Hasselt-Barth (born July 15, 1813 in Amsterdam , † January 14, 1881 in Mannheim ) was a German opera singer ( soprano ). She was an imperial-royal Austrian and royal Bavarian chamber singer at the Vienna Kärntnertortheater and at the Munich Hofopertheater .

Life

She came to Germany at the age of nine, where she initially received training in singing in Frankfurt am Main and Offenbach . Later she was a student of the singing teacher Josef Fischer in Karlsruhe and from 1829 by Pietro Romani in Florence . In October 1831 she made her debut in Trieste , where she sang the role of Ezilda in the opera Gli arabi nelle Gallie by Giovanni Pacini . She also gave concerts in Vicenza with Giovanni Battista Rubini . She lived in Trieste until 1833, then she sang at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and went on a tour of Italy. In 1834 she returned to Germany and became a court singer at the Munich Court Opera . Her first role there was Imogene in Vincenzo Bellini's Il pirata . On September 12, 1835, she appeared in the world premiere of the opera Die Hermannsschlacht by Hippolyte Chelard . In 1837 she went on a tour with guest appearances in Karlsruhe, Mannheim and Stuttgart. In 1838 she was a guest at the Frankfurt Opera House and the Court Theater in Darmstadt . On April 12, 1839, she sang at the premiere of Franz Lachner's opera Alidia in Munich. In that year she left the Munich Court Opera, to whose ensemble she had belonged for five years, and became a member of the Vienna Kärntnertortheater , where she was very successful and stayed until 1853. During this time she gave guest appearances in Linz , Salzburg , Budapest and Riga (1851). She also appeared at the Stadttheater Hamburg (1840), the German theaters in Brno and Prague and in 1843 at the Berlin Court Opera , where she was Mathilde in Wilhelm Tell by Gioachino Rossini and Valentine in Die Huguenots by Giacomo Meyerbeer . In 1853 she withdrew from the stage and from 1868 ran a singing school in Vienna for a long time.

From 1840 she was married to the pianist, conductor and song composer Gustav Barth , from whom she later divorced. She continued to perform under the double name van Hasselt-Barth even after the divorce. Her daughter Johanna van Hasselt-Barth (1841–1918) was a soubrette and operetta singer in Würzburg, Hanover, Coburg Gotha, Strasbourg and Königsberg.

At her peak, Anna Maria Wilhelmine van Hasselt-Barth was considered one of the most important sopranos in Germany. Her particular talent was coloratura singing and dramatic singing. In these areas she was one of the first successful German singers. Her most important roles include Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart .

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Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Moritz Rudolph (Ed.): Riga Theater and Tonkünstler Lexicon: together with the history of the Riga theater and the musical society. Kymmel [in Comm.], Riga 1890, p. 88.
  2. ↑ a b Karl J. Kutsch, Leo Riemens: Grosses Sängerlexikon. Saur, Munich 2003, vol. 3, p. 1984.
  3. ^ Hasselt-Barth, Anna Maria Wilhelmine van. In: Österreichisches Musiklexikon , accessed on November 28, 2012.
  4. ^ Constantin von Wurzbach : Hasselt-Barth, Anna Maria Wilhelmina van . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 8th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1862, p. 43 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Hasselt-Barth, Anna Maria Wilhelmine van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hasselt-Barth, Wilhelmine van; Hasselt-Barth, Wilhelmine Marie von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1881
Place of death Mannheim