Barbara Martig-Tüller
Barbara Martig-Tüller (born February 8, 1940 in Bern ) is a Swiss soprano .
Life
Martig-Tüller is the daughter of the pharmacist and concert singer Erwin Tüller and sister of the singer Niklaus Tüller (born 1938). From 1964 to 1993 she was married to Johannes Martig. She lives in Bern with her two married sons and their children.
She completed her vocal training at the Bern Conservatory Music School , where she studied with Helene Fahrni and Felix Loeffel from 1959 to 1968 and graduated with a concert diploma. This was followed by master classes with Franziska Martienssen-Lohmann , Ernst Haefliger (Zurich) and additional studies with Silvia Gähwiller in Zurich and Dennis Hall in Bern.
Barbara Martig-Tüller began in 1966 as a concert and lieder singer, sang numerous Bach cantatas, passions, the B minor Mass and by Josef Haydn “The Creation” and “The Seasons”. Her broad repertoire included works by Claudio Monteverdi , Jan Dismas Zelenka , Heinrich Schütz , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Joseph Haydn , Franz Schubert , Ludwig van Beethoven , Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Gioachino Rossini , Giuseppe Verdi , Johannes Brahms , Franz Liszt , Richard Strauss , Claude Debussy , Maurice Ravel , Gabriel Fauré , Erik Satie , Darius Milhaud , Arthur Honegger , Paul Hindemith, Arnold Schönberg , Alban Berg , Willy Burkhard , Othmar Schoeck , Wilhelm Killmayer , Udo Zimmermann , Klaus Huber and others.
Her piano accompanists were mainly Mario Venzago, Hans Walter Stucki, Gerardo Vila, Rainer Altorfer, Bruno Leuschner and others. The conductors: Mario Venzago, Rudolf, Barshai, Räto Tschupp, Antal Dorati, Francis Travis, Diethard Hellmann, Wolfram Wehnert, Eberhard Kloke, Michael Bäuerle and others.
She made her stage debut in 1970 at the Aargau Opera as Agathe in Carl Maria von Weber's “Der Freischütz”. From 1977 she turned increasingly to music theater. In 1977 she sang the role of Pamina in Mozart's “Die Zauberflöte” at the Stadttheater Bern . In the 1981/82 season, Lady Harriet Durham followed in Friedrich von Flotow's “Martha”, Donna Elvira in Mozart's “Don Giovanni”, St. Marguerite in Arthur Honegger's “Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher”, and in 1988 the lady in “Cardillac” by Paul Hindemith and Lady Billows in Benjamin Britten's "Albert Herring" in 1989/90.
At the Stadttheater Luzern she sang Amelia Grimaldi in Verdi's “Simone Boccanegra” in 1983, Donna Elvira in Mozart's “Don Giovanni” in 1985, the mother in Heinrich Sutermeister's “The Black Spider”, and in 1987 Mrs. Julian in the Swiss premiere of Benjamin Britten's “ Owen Wingrave ”.
Guest engagements took her to the Opéra de Metz in 1983 as Elettra in Mozart's “Idomeneo”, and in 1985 to the Basel Theater as Amelia Grimaldi in Verdi's “Simone Boccanegra”. At the Zurich Opera House in 1993 she sang the ballet staged Altenberg songs by Alban Berg , and in Bern and in the same concert the dying man in Arnold Schönberg's “Die Jakobsleiter”, in Düsseldorf and on Norddeutscher Rundfunk. In 1991 she performed a staged version of Poulenc's “La voix humaine” with a large orchestra in Bern and at the Heidelberg Theater , as part of the after-work concerts of UBS in Zurich, Lausanne and La Chaux-de-Fonds in the version with piano . Further appearances followed during the Zurich June Festival in 1980, as Euridice in a concert performance of Fernando Bertoni's “Orfeo” in the Tonhalle Zurich , in Beethoven's “Missa solemnis” in Heidelberg, Turin, Bournemouth, Bristol, Moscow and Dresden, in Robert Schumann's “Paradise and the Peri” on Radio Basel and at the Interlaken Festival. She has appeared in concert performances of Mozart's “Idomeneo” and “Titus”, Othmar Schoeck's “Fischer und Syne Fru”, in Verdi's “Requiem” in Brussels, Vevey, La Chaux-de-Fonds and Zurich.
Pedagogy, master classes
Since 1986 she has worked privately as a singing teacher in Bern. From 1992 to 1994 she organized an annual opera workshop in Vevey together with François Rochaix, director and Roderick Brydon, conductor, and two pianists. She was supported for these courses by the municipality of Vevey and Bern. The courses took place in the Théatre de l'Oriental and the Théatre de Vevey. From 2002 to 2006 she gave master classes in Baden in the Brown-Boveri pavilion and was also the artistic director of chamber music weeks there: concerts with students of the course, singers and instrumentalists, as well as a concert in the Kursaal with the Aargau Chamber Orchestra under Cristoforo Spagnuolo and the former Beijing Opera star Lianzhen Jing and actor Walter Andreas Mülle These weeks were started by Peter Bernhard, the singer who lives in Aargau. She coached opera singers like Yvonne Naef and Maria Riccarda Wesseling .
Recordings
- Georg Friedrich Händel: Apollo e Dafne, Ensemble instrumental baroque: Direction Martin Derungs Accord-Verlag
- Josef Haydn: Arianna a Naxos and quartets together with Mario Venzago, piano, Kate Lani Okuzuki, alto, Peter Keller, tenor and Stefan Kramp, bass, Carus-Verlag
- Zelenka: Missa Dei Patris , Marburg Bach Choir, Hessisches Bach-Collegium, direction Wolfram Wehnert, Calig-Verlag
- Josef Haydn: Harmony Mass, Bach Choir Mainz, Symphony Orchestra of Südwestfunk Baden-Baden, direction Diethard Hellmann, Calig-Verlag
- Klaus Cornell: Spiegelkantata, Choralschola des Kloster Einsiedeln, Open Music Group, directed by Klaus Cornell, Barbara Martig-Tüller and Niklaus Tüller, Rainer zur Linde, speaker, Jecklin-Disco:
literature
- Paul Suter: Barbara Martig-Tüller . In: Andreas Kotte (ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Chronos Verlag, Zurich 2005, volume 2, p. 1189 ( online )
Web links
- Barbara Martig-Tüller at Discogs (English)
- Barbara Martig-Tüller at Allmusic (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Martig-Tüller, Barbara |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss soprano |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bern |