August Harlacher
August Harlacher (born October 29, 1842 in Unterkochen , Oberamt Aalen , Württemberg ; † July 15, 1907 in Spiez , Switzerland ) was a German opera singer ( tenor ) and opera director.
Life
August Harlacher was the son of a miner and, following a humanistic school career, received training as a singer. In 1871 he came to the Karlsruhe court theater as a tenor . In 1888 he staged Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in the sixth year of the Bayreuth Festival . In Bayreuth he was the first and, until 1933, the only director alongside members of the Wagner family .
Afterwards he also worked as a director at the court theater in Karlsruhe in addition to his singing activities. In December 1890 he staged the first complete performance of the opera Les Troyens by Hector Berlioz (conductor: Felix Mottl ) there. In 1893 he went to the Stuttgart Court Opera. Here, too, he was both a singer and a director, and he was awarded the title of councilor after his staging of gala performances. In 1905 he stopped working on the stage.
August Harlacher was married to the singer Elise Harlacher-Rupp (* 1859).
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 393, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- August Harlacher in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- August Harlacher in the Badische Landesbibliothek
- August Harlacher at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . KG Saur Verlag, Munich, 1999, 2000, edition on CD-ROM (Directmedia Publishing GmbH, www.digitale-bibliothek.de )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Harlacher, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (tenor) and opera director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 29, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Unterochen , Oberamt Aalen , Württemberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 15, 1907 |
| Place of death | Spiez , Switzerland |