Béatrice Haldas

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Béatrice Haldas (born February 8, 1944 in Geneva , † December 3, 1987 in Nyon , resident in Geneva) was a Swiss opera singer ( soprano ) of Greek descent.

Life

Béatrice Haldas, daughter of the Swiss writer and translator Georges Haldas , first completed a university degree in Bern . She studied philosophy as well as French and Italian literary studies and graduated with a diploma. Her vocal training took place at the Geneva Conservatory with Juliette Bise and later with the well-known singing teacher Arturo Merlini in Milan . In 1973 she won the Swiss National Singing Competition. At the Lausanne Music Academy she won the “Prix de virtuosité” and thus passed her concert diploma.

She made her debut in 1976 as an opera singer at the Stadttheater Bern with the role of Countess Almaviva in Mozart's opera Le nozze di Figaro . In the 1975/76 season she sang Pallas Athene there in the Swiss premiere of the opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria by Claudio Monteverdi . From 1977 to 1979 Haldas was engaged as a member of the ensemble at the Stadttheater Basel . She sang roles like Ilia in Idomeneo , Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare , Micaëla in Carmen and Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte . 1979 followed a successful guest appearance as Euridice in Christoph Willibald Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice at the Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg .

In 1979 she was engaged at the Hamburg State Opera , of which she was a member until her death in 1987, of which she was a permanent member of the ensemble until 1985. In Hamburg, Haldas sang mainly the lyrical role subject with her characteristic, “Latin-Romance” voice. In September 1981 she took over the role of Maid Ghita in the premiere of the Zemlinsky opera The Birthday of the Infanta . In November 1982 she sang the ghita again and designed her as a "sensitive" maid. Her other roles in Hamburg included: Pamina in Die Zauberflöte , Zerlina in Don Giovanni , Micaëla (premiere: 1979/80 season, alternating with Katia Ricciarelli ; then continued regularly in the following seasons, from the 1981/82 season to the 1984 season / 85), Antonia in Hoffmanns Erzählungen (premiere: May 1981; director: Jürgen Flimm ), Mimi in La Bohème (role debut at the Stadttheater Luzern ; in Hamburg, inter alia, in the 1983/84 season) and Liù in Turandot (new production; premiere: October 1983 ; with further series of performances in February 1984, November 1984, June 1985 and December 1985). In the 1983/84 season she made her role debut as Countess Almaviva in a series of performances in March 1984. In the 1985/86 season she sang the new role Marzelline in Fidelio ; she was a “Marzelline, singing full-bodied and beautifully and more pleasant to play than her role predecessors”. As a member of the ensemble, Haldas occasionally took on smaller roles, such as Echo in Ariadne auf Naxos (1983/84 season; performance series in June 1984) and the 1st lady in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (in the 1984/85 and 1985/86 seasons with performance series in December 1984 and May 1985). In the 1986/87 season she sang the role of Ghita in two series of performances in January / February 1987 in the resumption of the Zemlinsky evening, which she embodied "with a touching performance". These were also her last appearances at the Hamburg State Opera. She sang the role of Ghita in guest appearances at the Hamburg State Opera in Edinburgh , Vienna and most recently in June 1987 in Amsterdam .

In the 1982/83 season she sang Mimì in La Bohème at the Lucerne Theater . In 1984 she made a guest appearance with the Ensemble of the Zurich Opera at the Wiesbaden May Festival, where she sang Micaëla in Carmen alongside Agnes Baltsa and José Carreras , and “let her warm soprano blossom wonderfully”.

Haldas also appeared as a concert singer. She gave concerts in Rome (with Gerd Albrecht and Yehudi Menuhin ), with the Orchester de la Suisse Romande (under Horst Stein ) and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich (under Sergiu Celibidache ). She guested u. a. at the Grenada Festival, the Festival International Echternach and the Festival “Sagra Musicale Umbra” in Perugia . With the State Philharmonic of Rhineland-Palatinate and the Beethoven Choir Ludwigshafen, she sang the soprano part in the oratorio Elias by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Ludwigshafen am Rhein and Landau in 1981 . At the Musikverein Essen she sang the soprano solo in the St. Matthew Passion (1983) and the St. John Passion (1985) under the musical direction of Heinz Wallberg . With the Trier Bach Choir and the RTL Symphony Orchestra under the musical direction of Leopold Hager , she took over the soprano part in the Ode The Alexander Festival by Georg Friedrich Handel in 1985 in the Echternach Basilica . In November 1986 she sang the soprano part in Handel's oratorio Der Messias with the Münchner MotettenChor .

Haldas had a "warm-timed, youthful" soprano voice. She made radio recordings for many foreign and German radio stations. There are also several audio documents by Haldas on LP and CD. With it there is also a sound and video recording of the Christmas carol Silent Night, Holy Night (1978), which is repeatedly broadcast on television at Christmas , mostly in the regional programs of the ARD . In several versions uploaded to YouTube , 1978 is given as the year of the recording. In 1980 she also appeared as a singer on the television show One Will Win .

Haldas died in early December 1987 after a long and serious illness. For the end of December 1987 she still had engagements as Antonia in Hoffmann's Stories at the Brussels Opera House La Monnaie . On December 31, 1987, she should also have performed the soprano part in Beethoven's 9th Symphony in Brussels .

Discography

  • Cherubini: Chant sur la mort de Joseph Haydn (soprano). RSO Berlin 1982 (Acanta LP)
  • Haydn: The seven last words of our Savior on the Cross (soprano). RSO Berlin 1982 (RCA LP)
  • Hindemith: Murderer, Hope of Women (3rd girl). RSO Berlin (Wergo CD)
  • Honegger: Le Roi David (soprano). Radio of the German and Romansh Switzerland 1981 (music publisher for the Pelikan LP)
  • Moret: Mendiant du Ciel bleu (soprano). Radio Suisse Romande 1981 (Musiques Suisses CD)
  • Pfitzner: Poor Heinrich (Agnes). WDR (House of Opera CD)
  • Puccini: Turandot (Liu). Hamburg 1983 (House of Opera CD)
  • Puccini: Turandot (Liu). Hamburg 1985 (House of Opera CD)
  • Strauss: Ariadne on Naxos (Echo). Hamburg 1979 (House of Opera CD)
  • Zemlinsky: The birthday of the Infanta (Ghita). RSO Berlin 1984 (Schwann CD)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e In memoriam: Beatrice Haldas. Obituary by GH (= Geerd Heinsen). In: Orpheus . February 1988. page 110.
  2. ↑ A Florentine Tragedy / The Infanta 's Birthday. In: The opera glasses . November 1981, p. 6/7 (performance review)
  3. ^ Jacques Fournier: Repertoire Impressions. Performance review. In: Orpheus . Issue December 12, 1982. Page 989/990.
  4. ↑ E. Breves: The Marriage of Figaro. Performance review. In: The opera glasses . Issue May 5, 1984, page 4.
  5. ^ M. Rutkowski: Fidelio. Performance review. In: The opera glasses . Issued January 1986. Page 11.
  6. ^ S. Matuschak: A Florentine tragedy / The birthday of the Infanta. Performance review. In: The opera glasses . Issue March 3, 1987, page 8.
  7. ^ H. Walter: Wiesbaden May Festival. Performance reviews. In: The opera glasses . Issue 7/8. July / August 1984, page 36.
  8. ^ Concerts since 1924 ( Memento from January 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: Website of the Beethoven Choir Ludwigshafen (PDF; 278 kB).
  9. ↑ The Essen Music Association under Heinz Wallberg  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ). In: Website of the Essen Choir Forum.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.chorforumessen.de
  10. ^ Concerts 1981–1985 ( Memento of October 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). In: Website of the Trier Bach Choir.
  11. ↑ Münchner MotettenChor. Concert chronicle ( memento from February 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: Website of the Münchner MotettenChors (PDF; 802 kB).
  12. ↑ Christmas miracles. . TV schedule dated December 24, 1984. Retrieved February 8, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Haldas, Béatrice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss opera singer (soprano) of Greek descent
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH 3rd December 1987
Place of death Nyon