Bernd Aldenhoff

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Bernd Aldenhoff

Bernd Aldenhoff (born June 14, 1908 in Duisburg , † October 8, 1959 in Munich ) was a German opera singer ( tenor ). He was considered one of the outstanding hero tenors of the 1940s and 1950s and was known for his powerful voice and always sure heights.

Life

Bernd Aldenhoff was born in Duisburg as the eleventh child of a master carpenter, grew up in an orphanage and initially learned his father's trade. He passed the journeyman's examination with "very good".

In 1932 Walter Felsenstein , who was senior director in Cologne at the time, became aware of Aldenhoff. So he was accepted into the choir of the Duisburg-Bochum City Theater under the protection of Saladin Schmitt . Further stations as a choir singer were the Cologne Opera and the State Theater Stuttgart . He was also trained as a soloist by Julius Lenz , who also taught Ludwig Suthaus , in Cologne.

In the following year, an engagement as a soloist at the Cologne Opera followed. Here he first sang lyrical tenor roles: Lyonel in Martha von Friedrich von Flotow , Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly and Matteo in Arabella (Strauss) . In the world premiere of the opera Der Heidenkönig by Siegfried Wagner he sang Radoma. His career took him to the Darmstadt Theater in 1934, to Erfurt in 1935 , to Düsseldorf in 1938 , to the Semperoper in Dresden in 1943 and finally to the Munich State Opera in 1952 , of which he was a member until his death.

He switched to the difficult subject via Bajazzo and became a celebrated Wagner singer at an international level in the post-war period . Wieland Wagner heard Aldenhoff as Siegfried in Leipzig, and when he sang in 1950 in Bayreuth, Herbert von Karajan also agreed to an engagement. He fully met the high expectations of the first “post-war Siegfried” of “Neubayreuth” with his winning portrayal and, with all his impact, always cultivated art of singing. He did not design the figure as a heavy hero, but rather soothingly youthful. The end of the Siegfried Premiere 1951 he crowned with a high C . At the Bayreuth Festival between 1951 and 1957 he could be heard repeatedly as Siegfried in Siegfried and Götterdämmerung . The most important performances are documented as recordings.

In 1939 he made a guest appearance at the Frankfurt Opera as Manrico in Il trovatore and as Riccardo in Un ballo in maschera by Verdi . Here he sang regularly between 1952 and 1957. In 1937 he sang for the first time as Tannhäuser in the “Bayreuth des Nordens”, the forest opera Sopot . Further guest performances were the Vienna Volksoper in 1940 , the Komische Oper Berlin in 1950 , and the Vienna State Opera as Walther von Stolzing in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and as Otello , in 1954 Teatro Comunale Florence as Parsifal, 1954 and 1955 Metropolitan Opera New York as Tannhäuser, Tristan and Parsifal, 1955 the Grand Opéra Paris as Siegfried, 1957 Royal Opera House Covent Garden London as Siegfried in Götterdämmerung , 1957 Théâtre de la Monnaie Brussels and 1959 Milan Scala as Erik.

His last appearance was in 1959 in his hometown at the Duisburg City Theater in a performance by Siegfried . He died at the age of only 51 and at the height of his career of food poisoning in Munich. His grave is in the forest cemetery there , old part.

A street was named after Bernd Aldenhoff in 2006 when a new housing estate was built in the Sängerviertel of Dresden-Nickern.

Trivia

Lots

  • d'Albert: "Lowlands", Pedro
  • Beethoven: “Fidelio”, Florestan
  • Flotow: "Martha", Lyonel
  • Kienzl: "The Evangelimann", Matthias
  • Leoncavallo: "The Bajazzo", Canio
  • Offenbach: "Hoffmann's Tales", Hoffmann
  • Pfitzner: "Poor Heinrich", Heinrich
  • Puccini: "La Boheme", Rudolfo
  • Puccini "Madame Butterfly", Pinkerton
  • Strauss: "Salome", Herod
  • Strauss: "Elektra", Aegisth
  • Strauss: "Ariadne on Naxos", Bacchus
  • Strauss: "Arabella", Matteo
  • Strauss: "The love of Danae"
  • Strauss: "The Egyptian Helena", Menelaus
  • Tomasi: "Don Juan de Manara", title role
  • Verdi: "Il Trovatore", Manrico
  • Verdi: “Un ballo in maschera”, Riccardo
  • Verdi: "Otello", Otello
  • Wagner: "The Flying Dutchman", Erik
  • Wagner: "Tannhäuser", Tannhäuser
  • Wagner: "Lohengrin", Lohengrin
  • Wagner: "Mastersingers of Nuremberg", Walther von Stolzing
  • Wagner: "Tristan and Isolde", Tristan
  • Wagner: "Valkyrie", Siegmund
  • Wagner: "Siegfried", Siegfried
  • Wagner: "Götterdämmerung", Siegfried
  • Wagner: "Parsifal", Parsifal
  • Wagner (Siegfried) "The Heidenkönig", Radoma
  • Wagner-Régeny: "The favorite", Fabiano
  • Weber: "Der Freischütz", Max

Discography

  • D'Albert: Tiefland - Orchester des NDR, Rudolf Alberth, 1953
  • Beethoven: Ninth Symphony - Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Abendroth, 1950
  • Beethoven: Fidelio - Staatskapelle Dresden, Joseph Keilberth, 1948
  • Pfitzner: The Rose from the Love Garden - Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Robert Heger, 1953
  • Strauss: Salome - Staatskapelle Dresden, Joseph Keilberth, 1948
  • Strauss: Salome - Bavarian State Opera, Joseph Keilberth, 1955
  • Strauss: Elektra - Bavarian State Opera, Hans Knappertsbusch 1956
  • Strauss: The Egyptian Helena - Bavarian State Opera, Joseph Keilberth, 1956
  • Tomasi: Don Juan von Mañara - Bavarian State Opera, André Cluytens, 1956
  • Wagner: The Flying Dutchman - Orchestra of the NDR, Wilhelm Schüchter, 1951
  • Wagner: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg - Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Rudolf Kempe, 1951
  • Wagner: Siegfried - Bayreuth Festival, Herbert von Karajan, 1951
  • Wagner: Siegfried - Bayreuther Festspiele, Joseph Keilberth, 1952
  • Wagner: Siegfried - Bayreuth Festival, Hans Knappertsbusch 1957
  • Wagner: Siegfried - Zurich Opera House, Robert F. Denzler 1959
  • Wagner: Götterdämmerung - Bayreuth Festival, Knappertsbusch, 1951
  • Wagner: Götterdämmerung - Bavarian State Opera, Hans Knappertsbusch, 1955
  • Wagner: Parsifal - Symphony Orchestra of Cologne Radio, Richard Kraus , 1949
  • Weber: Der Freischütz - Sächsischer Staatskapelle Dresden, Rudolf Kempe, 1949
  • Living past - Bernd Aldenhoff (recordings 1946–1949)
  • A portrait of Bernd Aldenhoff
  • Forest Opera Sopot - The Bayreuth of the North and its singers
  • A Portrait of Marianne Schech - Excerpts from Act 2 Parsifal, Orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera, Eugen Jochum
  • Georg Hann Arias 1942–43 Recordings - Excerpt from Rheingold
  • Leonie Rysanek sings Beethoven / Wagner / Verdi - excerpt from Aida
  • Josef Metternich - Rare and Unreleased Recordings - Excerpts from Otello
  • Tiana Lemnitz Vol 2 - Wagner scenes - excerpts from The Mastersingers of Nuremberg

Audio samples

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd-Aldenhoff-Strasse. Retrieved June 2, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Aldenhoff, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1959
Place of death Munich