Carl Bissuti

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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

repertoire

Beethoven :

  • Don Fernando and Rocco in the Fidelio

d'Albert :

Handel :

Kienzl :

Franz Lehár :

Meyerbeer :

Mozart :

Nicolai :

Hans Pfitzner :

  • Cardinal of Lorraine and chaplain of Santa Maria Maggiore in Palestrina

Puccini :

 

Smetana :

Richard Strauss :

Verdi :

Wagner :

Weber :

Wolf :

Wolf-Ferrari :

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

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presto Classic: Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620 , accessed on June 25, 2020
personal data
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