Catarina Ligendza

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Catarina Ligendza , née Catarina Beyron , (born October 18, 1937 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish opera singer .

Life

Catarina Ligendza is the daughter of the opera singer Brita Hertzberg and the heroic tenor Einar Beyron . She first studied at the Vienna Music Academy , then from 1959 to 1963 with Henriette Klink-Schneider at the Bavarian State Conservatory for Music in Würzburg and finally with Josef Greindl at the University of Music in Saarbrücken. Catarina Ligendza is married to the German oboist and conductor Peter Ligendza , with whom she also worked in joint concerts and radio recordings.

Stage career

In 1963 Catarina Ligendza made her debut as Countess Almaviva in Mozart's opera Le nozze di Figaro in Linz and went to Braunschweig in 1964 .

From 1965 to 1969 she was in the opera ensemble of the Saarbrücken City Theater (now the Saarland State Theater ), where she a. a. Elsa in Lohengrin , Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier , Desdemona in Othello , Arabella and all Brünnhilden in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen sang.

From 1969 to 1987 she was a member of the ensemble at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Stuttgart State Opera .

There she sang Ariadne, Agathe, Chrysothemis, Elsa, Amelia in Ein Maskenball , Leonore in Fidelio , the Brünnhilden and Isolde, and Iphigenie in Iphigenie auf Tauris by Christoph Willibald Gluck , directed by Achim Freyer . She made guest appearances in Hamburg, Munich and at the Vienna State Opera , where she sang Leonore in Fidelio , Brünnhilden, Isolde, Ariadne, Lisa in Pique Dame and Elsa a. a. with Plácido Domingo as Lohengrin.

In 1970 and 1982 she engaged Herbert von Karajan at the Salzburg Easter Festival, where she sang 3rd Norn in Götterdämmerung and Fidelio-Leonore, and in 1982 she sang Senta in the Flying Dutchman .

In 1971 she appeared at the Met in New York as Leonore in Fidelio and in London at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden as Senta in The Flying Dutchman .

She appeared at La Scala in Milan in 1972 as Arabella and in 1978 as Isolde in a production by Wolfgang Wagner with the conductor Carlos Kleiber .

Catarina Ligendza made a name for herself as a Wagner singer at the Bayreuth Festival, among others, where she sang Brünnhilde in the Ring of the Nibelung under the conductor Horst Stein in a production by Wolfgang Wagner from 1971 to 1973 .

From 1974 to 1977 she was Isolde in August Everding's production of Tristan und Isolde at the Bayreuth Festival , under the musical direction of Carlos Kleiber.

In 1987 she sang again in Bayreuth and as Elsa saved the premiere of Lohengrin , directed by Werner Herzog, and then sang Isolde in a production by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle , conducted by Daniel Barenboim .

From 1984 to 1987 she was Brünnhilde in the Ring production by Ruth Berghaus at the Frankfurt Opera , with the conductor Michael Gielen .

In 1987 she sang Brünnhilde in the Japanese premiere of the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen in Yokohama and Tokyo , directed by Götz Friedrich , with the conductor Jesus Lopez-Cobos .

For Catarina Ligendza, the ensemble theater is a prerequisite for the positive development of an opera singer, which is why for her the work in the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the State Opera Stuttgart was more important than extensive concert and guest tours.

Catarina Ligendza was a singing actress, for her the acting embodiment of a role was just as important as the vocal performance. She found opera recordings in the studio to be unsatisfactory because there was no stage activity, so she hardly ever recorded any operas on vinyl. One of the exceptions is a recording of the Meistersinger von Nürnberg from 1976, in which she sang the part of Eva and which was conducted by Eugen Jochum .

However, she took part in several opera films: as Senta in the film adaptation of the Flying Dutchman with the director Václav Kašlík and with Wolfgang Sawallisch as conductor. As Elsa in a live broadcast on television from the Bavarian State Opera, in the Lohengrin production by August Everding with Ernst Fuchs as stage designer and the conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch. As Agathe im Freischütz in a production of the Stuttgart State Opera, directed by Achim Freyer and the conductor Dennis Russell Davies , as well as the Chrysothemis in Elektra in a production by Unitel, directed by Götz Friedrich , with the conductor Karl Böhm .

Catarina Ligendza has a. a. with conductors such as Carlos Kleiber , Herbert von Karajan , Daniel Barenboim , Lorin Maazel , Michael Gielen , Wolfgang Sawallisch , Otmar Suitner , Karl Böhm , Eugen Jochum and Horst Stein , as well as the directors Achim Freyer , Götz Friedrich , Herbert Wernicke , Ruth Berghaus , Jean -Pierre Ponnelle , Kurt Horres , Wolfgang Wagner , August Everding .

In 1988 Catarina Ligendza decided to end her career as an opera singer at the height of her career.

Awards

  • Berlin chamber singer
  • Württemberg chamber singer
  • Honorary member of the Stuttgart State Opera
  • 1975 Appointment to the Swedish "Kungliga Akademin"
  • 2004 Award of the "Litteris et Artibus" order by King Carl XVI. Gustaf .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ lenamoen.com (Swedish). Retrieved January 2, 2012
  2. ↑ kungahuset.se (Swedish) accessed January 2, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Ligendza, Catarina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beyron, Catarina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish opera singer
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm