Carl Bissuti
Carl Bissuti ( February 16, 1899 in Stephanshart , Lower Austria - September 14, 1974 in Graz ) was an Austrian opera singer with a bass voice .
life and work
Originally, Bissuti aspired to the career of a railway official. In Asten founded a youth choir . His voice was noticed at a concert and the famous Salzburg Festival singer Richard Mayr campaigned for him to be accepted as a student at the Mozarteum . His singing teacher was Bianca Bianchi . In the 1922-23 season he was engaged as a choir player at the Salzburg City Theater. This was followed by engagements as an actor, first for three seasons in Salzburg, then for two seasons in Linz. In 1928 he was engaged as a singer in Trier . This was followed by engagements in Troppau (1932–33), Bielefeld (1933–34) and Darmstadt (1934–35).
In 1934 he was invited by Clemens Krauss to a guest performance at the Vienna State Opera - as Sarastro in the Magic Flute . As a result, he was committed to the Haus am Ring from 1935, where he sang almost everything from Mozart to Kienzl, from Verdi to Wagner. In the Austrian Theater Museum you can find role models from Weinberger's Wallenstein and Lehár's Land of Smiles . From 1936 to 1939 he was engaged every summer at the Salzburg Festival . He sang there first under the musical direction of Arturo Toscanini (Magic Flute, Fidelio, Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Bruno Walter (Così fan tutte) and Felix von Weingartner (Der Corregidor). After the annexation of Austria to Hitler's Germany , he was hired by the conductors Wilhelm Furtwängler (Meistersinger) and Hans Knappertsbusch (Fidelio, Freischütz and Tannhäuser) to Salzburg.
The singer remained a member of the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera until 1942 and then received a permanent engagement at the Salzburg City Theater . In 1944 he was buried and seriously injured in an air raid on Vienna. He had to give up his job and later moved to Graz.
He was married to the soprano Josefine Stelzer (1902–1958). The couple had at least one son, Kristian Bissuti , born in 1940, who became a photographer.
Roles (selection)
World premieres
- 1937 Marco Frank : The Strange Woman - Vienna State Opera (Dr. Chesnel)
- 1937 Jaromír Weinberger : Wallenstein - Vienna State Opera (Wachtmeister)
- 1938 Franz Salmhofer : Iwan Tarassenko - Vienna State Opera (Excellency Burulbasch)
repertoire
d'Albert :
Handel :
Kienzl :
Mozart :
Nicolai :
Puccini :
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Smetana :
Verdi :
Wagner :
Weber :
Wolf :
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Audio documents
There are relatively few audio documents by Carl Bissuti. Toscanini conducted performances of the Magic Flute and the Meistersinger von Nürnberg in Salzburg . Koch has released archive recordings from the Vienna State Opera, for example Aida (Ramfis) and Der Freischütz (Kuno).
See also
- Venues of the Salzburg Festival
- Opera casts at the Salzburg Festival from 1935 to 1937
- Opera line-ups at the Salzburg Festival 1938 to 1944
source
- Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Großes Sängerlexikon , Walter de Gruyter 2012, Volume 4, p. 425
Web links
- Performances with Carl Bissuti , Archives of the Vienna State Opera
- Schedule search , archive of the Salzburg Festival
- Literature by and about Carl Bissuti in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Carl Bissuti in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Presto Classic: Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620 , accessed on June 25, 2020
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bissuti, Carl |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bissuti, Karl |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian opera singer with a bass voice |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1899 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Stephanshart , Lower Austria |
DATE OF DEATH | September 14, 1974 |
Place of death | Graz |