Christine Esterházy

Christine Countess Esterházy von Galántha , née Christine Obermayr (born May 30, 1959 in Wiesbaden ), is a German opera and concert singer ( mezzo-soprano ) and musicologist .

Life

After graduating from high school, she passed her state exams in musicology and politics at the University of Mainz . Eduard Wollitz and Josef Metternich trained them in singing.

At the age of 26 she made her debut at the Ulm Theater as Carmen . She sang Cherubino in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro at the State Theater on Gärtnerplatz in Munich . Further stages in her career took her to the opera houses in Luxembourg , Bayreuth , Barcelona , Madrid , Paris , the Volksoper in Vienna , Turin , Berlin and Bonn .

The mezzo-soprano is still well known to opera fans in Munich and Salzburg by her maiden name, Obermayr , for example as August Everding's favorite Brangäne, Carmen or Orlowsky in the bat . She also connects these and other trouser roles with the University of Salzburg : She wrote her dissertation "Real trouser roles in the operas between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Strauss " with Gernot Gruber and Sibylle Dahms , with which she received her doctorate in 1999.

She has been married to Count Endre Esterházy von Galántha since 1994 . The couple lives in Ranshofen ( Upper Austria ) and in Eisenstadt and on the German side owns a castle in Ering am Inn on the Bavarian-Austrian border.

Web links

Christine Obermayr's biography on the Bayreuth Festival website

Individual evidence

↑ Christine Esterházy in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
↑ Short biography of Christine Countess Esterházy ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the sommernachtsball.at page @1@ 2
↑ Several deaths , report on Count Esterházy on the Internet portal of the Catholic Church in Germany from March 2, 2016, accessed on March 3, 2016.

personal data
SURNAME	Esterházy, Christine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Galántha, Christine Countess Esterházy von (full name); Obermayr, Christine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German opera and concert singer (mezzo-soprano) and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 30, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wiesbaden

[1] Christine Esterházy in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)

[2] Short biography of Christine Countess Esterházy ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the sommernachtsball.at page @1@ 2

[3] Several deaths , report on Count Esterházy on the Internet portal of the Catholic Church in Germany from March 2, 2016, accessed on March 3, 2016.