Auguste von Müller

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Auguste von Müller (born February 23, 1848 in Darmstadt ; died April 2, 1912 in Darmstadt) was a German opera singer with a mezzo-soprano voice.

Life

Auguste von Müller was the daughter of the Darmstadt court actress Maria von Müller-Stack (born 1818). She began her career in 1875 as an actress at the Szczecin City Theater . The following season she was a singer at the Riga Opera House and then got an engagement at the Weimar Court Theater , where Franz Liszt was artistic director. In Weimar she sang in place of Pauline Viardot intended for the title role on December 2, 1877 in the world premiere of Saint-Saëns ' Samson et Dalila under the direction of Eduard Lassen in the German translation of the libretto by Richard Pohl .

She appeared in Weimar in the years up to 1881 as Azucena in the troubadour , as Frau Reich in Otto Nicolai's Die Lustigen Frauen von Windsor , as Fricka and as Floßhilde in the Ring of the Nibelung .

In the season 1881/82 von Müller was engaged at the Stadttheater Bremen , 1882/83 at the Stadttheater Magdeburg , 1883/84 at the Hoftheater Altenburg , 1884/85 at the Hoftheater Sondershausen and 1885/86 at the Stadttheater Lübeck . Her repertoire also the roles of Fides in were prophets of Giacomo Meyerbeer , the Nancy Friedrich von Flotow's Martha and Ortrud in Lohengrin .

She withdrew from the theater business and lived in Bremen and later in her hometown Darmstadt.

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SURNAME Müller, Auguste von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1912
Place of death Darmstadt