Charlotte Huhn (singer)

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Charlotte Huhn (born September 15, 1865 in Lüneburg , † June 15, 1925 in Hamburg ) was a German opera singer with an alto voice .

Live and act

Huhn was born as the youngest of five children in a hairdressing family at 27 Grapengießerstraße in Lüneburg . When her father died, one of her brothers took over the hairdressing salon and largely financed the maintenance and training costs. In 1881 the musically gifted Charlotte Therese Caroline Huhn began her singing studies at the Conservatory of Music in Cologne. The wife of the mayor of the city of Lüneburg, Marie Gravenhorst, also contributed to the financing of the music studies as a patron.

After graduating from Cologne in 1885, Huhn first appeared as a concert singer. She then continued her training in Berlin in 1887 with the private music teacher Julius Hey (1832–1909) and with the singing teacher Mathilde Mallinger (1847–1920). She made her debut in the Berlin Kroll Opera in 1889 as the title hero in Orpheus von Gluck . She then performed at the New York Metropolitan Opera until 1891. There she sang the role of Mary in the world premiere of The Flying Dutchman . In 1890 she took part in guest performances at the Metropolitan Opera in Chicago and Boston . In 1891 she took part as a concert singer at the Silesian Music Festival in Wroclaw . Then she got an engagement at the Opera House in Cologne . Huhn said goodbye to Cologne in the title role of "Orpheus" by Gluck . On October 1, 1895, she went to the Dresden Court Opera . There she took part in the newly staged opera Kirke in 1898 .

In a concert in the Gewandhaus Hall in Leipzig on October 26, 1899, Huhn sang as an encore “The Sea has its pearls”, composed by Robert Franz (1815-1892) with the lyrics by Heinrich Heine . The present music critic Eduard Bernsdorf (1825–1901) praised the singer for the “warmth of feeling” of her lecture and the “ sonority and excellent treatment of her extensive alto (or mezzo-soprano ) voice”.

She left Dresden in 1902 and was a member of the Munich Court Opera until 1906 .

Leading roles

Her other stage repertoire at the court theaters in Dresden and Munich included roles such as "Ortrud" in Lohengrin , "Fides" in Prophets , Orpheus , Euryanthe and "Brangäne" in Tristan .

Award and honor

  • Sachsen-Meininger golden merit medal for art and science
  • Naming of a street in Lüneburg after the artist: Charlotte-Huhn-Straße

Resting place in Lüneburg

The artist, who last worked as a singing teacher, died at the age of 59 after a vocal cord operation in Hamburg and found her final resting place in her place of birth on the Michaelisfriedhof.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Großes Sängerlexikon , Vol. 3, p. 2169, keyword: "Huhn, Charlotte, Alt",
  2. ↑ Hans-Georg Grzenia: Stone story - history in stone or: The cemeteries as a history book of the recent past . In: Aufrisse. Announcements of the working group Lüneburg old town e. V. 25/2010, pp. (27-29) 21-23 "Charlotte Huhn"
  3. ^ Signals for the musical world , Leipzig, 53rd year, No. 31 (May), Leipzig 1895, p. 488
  4. ^ Ernst Roeder : The Dresden court theater of the present. Biographical-critical sketches of the members . E. Pierson's Verlag, Dresden / Leipzig, 1896, p. 64
  5. ^ Signals for the musical world , Leipzig, 57th year; No. 53 of October 28, 1899, p. 834

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literature

  • Ernst Roeder: The Dresden court theater of the present. Biographical-critical sketches of the members . E. Person's Verlag, Dresden / Leipzig, 1896, pp. 64-71
  • Ludwig Eisenberg : Large Biographical Lexicon of the German Stage in the XIX. Century . Paul List publishing house, Leipzig 1903, p. 458 f., Keyword: "Huhn, Charlotte"
personal data
SURNAME Chicken, Charlotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chicken, Charlotte Therese Caroline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1925
Place of death Hamburg