Betty Vio
Betty Vio , actually Elisabeth Vio ( June 22, 1806 in Lübeck - December 15, 1872 in Munich ) was an Italian - Austrian singer ( soubrette , soprano ). Their married names were Betty Spitzeder and Betty Maurer .
Life
Vio, daughter of the Italian nobleman Francesco Vio, had her first roles in Düsseldorf at the age of five. In 1817 and 1818 various guest appearances at the court theater in Karlsruhe followed. In September / October 1818 she made her debut at the Theater an der Wien . In Vienna she took singing lessons from Antonio Salieri and Giuseppe Ciccimara , supported by Prince Dietrichstein as a patron. In the summer of 1819 she went to Court Theater Vienna, where it remained until 1824. There she sang, among others, the 1822/23 "Annie" in Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber . This judged their appearance rather negatively. She was acquainted with Joseph Carl Rosenbaum , at whose company she met Weber personally in 1823.
From 1825 to 1826 she was engaged again at the Theater an der Wien, 1826/27 at the Theater in der Josefstadt , and from 1827 to 1829 for the third time at the Theater an der Wien . Then she went to the Königsstädtische Theater in Berlin until 1832. In 1832 she made her debut at the Court Opera in October, where she stayed until July 1, 1836. From 1837 to 1854 she again had guest appearances in Vienna, where she found a job at the Carltheater from 1854 . After Carl Carl's death in 1854, however, she withdrew entirely from the stage. She died in 1872 at the age of 66.
The artist married Josef Spitzeder in Berlin in 1831 , followed by her second marriage to Franz Maurer, whom she married in Graz, around 1837.
From her marriage to Josef Spitzeder comes her daughter, Adele Spitzeder , who was later shrouded in scandal , an actress and a speculator convicted of fraud.
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Betty Vio . In: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 984 ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
Web links
- Works by Betty Vio at Zeno.org .
- Betty Vio in the Carl Maria von Weber Complete Edition
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Vio, Betty |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vio, Elisabeth (real name); Spitzeder, Betty; Mason, Betty |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian-Austrian singer (soubrette, soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1806 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 15, 1872 |
| Place of death | Munich |