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Bianka Blume , often also Bianca , née Bianka George , adopted Bianka Sauter or Bianka Santer ( May 4, 1843 in Reichenbach , Lower Silesia - December 1896 in Buenos Aires , Argentina ) was a German opera singer ( soprano ).
Life
She was the daughter of the Reichenbach book and music dealer George, lost her parents at an early age and was adopted by the stone printing shop owner Sauter in Breslau . As a girl of 14 she took private singing lessons from the Breslau choir director Julius Hirschberg and at the age of 15 she began to perform in concerts. In 1859 she proved her great talent and musical talent when she took on the soprano solo in the performance of Haydn's The Creation for the suddenly ill artist Emma Mampe-Babnigg .
In 1861 she began her career at the Opera in Breslau as "Alice" in Robert le diable by Giacomo Meyerbeer . In July 1862 she appeared for the first time as "Agathe" and "Anna" in The White Lady by François-Adrien Boieldieu there. Then she was engaged in Magdeburg. From 1863 to 1886 she was at the Berliner Hofbühne . There she also took further lessons from Adele Peroni-Glasbrenner . In 1866 she went to the Dresden Court Theater , but returned to Berlin in 1867. An engagement at the Mannheim court theater followed.
In 1873 she undertook a tour of South America with the tenor Enrico Tamberlik and from 1875 she only went on guest tours.
On May 25, 1866, she married the singing teacher Alfred Blume and performed under the name Bianka Blume-Sauter. The couple had the daughter Viola Alice Blume, from 1881/82 the muse of the playwright and poet Carl Caro , Vienna.
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Paul List Verlag, Leipzig 1903, pp. 105-106 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Bianka Blume in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Bianka Blume at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- Bianka Blume pictures in the Manskopf Collection of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main
Remarks
- ↑ year of death according to BMLO; According to operissimo.com, it is said to have performed in Buenos Aires in 1897.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Flower, Bianka |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Flower, Bianca; George, Bianka (maiden name); Sauter, Bianka; Santer, Bianka |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 4, 1843 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reichenbach , Lower Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 1896 |
| Place of death | Buenos Aires , Argentina |