Auguste Beck

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Wilhelmine Auguste Beck , also Madame Adam (born February 9, 1793 in Mannheim , † September 1, 1827 at the earliest), was a German opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Beck was the daughter of the actor Heinrich Beck and his second wife, the singer Josepha, geb. Schäfer , and the younger sister of the actress Luise Beck .

From February 1804 she appeared at the Mannheim Theater . From 1808 she was also active as a singer in the opera and remained there until March 1814. From May to October 1814 with Joseph Seconda in Dresden, afterwards guest appearances in Mannheim. From September 1816 at the Hoftheater Stuttgart , from there in August 1818 guest performance in Frankfurt / Main .

She married the tenor Theodor Adam and appeared for a few months at the Hoftheater Hannover in 1819 as the married Madame Adam.

From October 1819 to the summer of 1820 roles with Derossi in Cologne , Düsseldorf and Aachen are recorded, in September 1820 guest roles at the Theater Würzburg . In the 1821/22 season (debut November 14, 1821) Auguste Beck and her husband were engaged in Danzig under director Adolph Schröder (with a detour to Elbing ). She sang Agathe in the first performances of Freischütz there under the direction of music director Edmund von Weber.

In December 1822 she appeared together with her husband at the Lübeck Theater, inter alia, as Agathe im Freischütz, and in October 1824 she appeared in Breslau . There she was subsequently employed; from Breslau she had guest appearances in Hanover (November 1826) and Wiesbaden (August 1827).

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SURNAME Beck, Auguste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beck, Wilhelmine Auguste (full name); Adam, madame
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH after September 1, 1827