Caroline Charles-Hirsch

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Caroline Charles-Hirsch , also Karoline Charles-Hirsch , née Caroline Groyß ( August 28, 1848 in Vienna - March 3, 1931 there ) was an Austrian theater actress , opera singer ( soprano ) and vocal teacher .

Life

Charles-Hirsch, the daughter of an official in the Austrian Ministry of Commerce, attended the Vienna Conservatory . After she left this as an award-winning student ( Adele Passy-Cornet took over her actual training ), she entered the stage in Graz for the first time as a coloratura singer in 1869 or 1870 . She stayed there for a year, then made a guest appearance in Leipzig , in 1871 in Pest and in the same year traveled to a guest performance at the kk Hofoperntheater in Vienna, where she was widely recognized as Queen of the Night .

In 1872 she joined the Association of the Theater an der Wien, where she excelled as an operetta actress. She took part in the premieres of Strauss's operettas Carnival in Rome (March 1, 1873) and Die Fledermaus (March 5, 1874). From 1875 to 1876 she was in Linz, from 1877 to 1878 at the Komische Oper Wien and in 1878 she went to the Prague State Theater. Soon after, she no longer accepted a permanent commitment, but went on guest tours for more than a decade.

Afterwards she worked as a singing teacher and moved to Vienna in 1907, later she went blind.

She was married from 1873 to the actor and theater manager Heinrich Hirsch (1840–1910).

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  1. Caroline Charles-Hirsch at akg-images.de (with picture)

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