Christoph Reuland
Christoph Reuland (born June 13, 1903 in Düsseldorf , † January 13, 1983 in Bad Herrenalb ) was a German opera singer ( tenor ).
Life
Reuland abandoned his parents' desire to become an engineer early on. Instead he studied violin with concertmaster H. Wolf. A vocal study in the Italian Belcanto School took place with Mrs. Gallenkamp in Düsseldorf, Max Pauli in Cologne, Julius von Raatz-Brockmann in Berlin and Arne van Erpekum Sem in Oslo. He studied recitation with Hans-Heinz Steinhoff, Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf. He financed his studies by leading an entertainment band as a violinist.
In 1926 Reuland began his 31-year singing career in Oberhausen with the Postillon von Lonjumeau . Halberstadt, Sondershausen, Mönchengladbach and Stettin were other stops before he moved to Aachen in 1934 under the general music director Herbert von Karajan . David , Mime and Tamino were three roles in Reuland under Karajan. Christoph Reuland also appeared as an opera director in Aachen with Armourer , Postillon and Martha . Five years in Aachen followed Nuremberg and the Theater des Volkes in Berlin.
After the Second World War, Christoph Reuland worked for six years in Düsseldorf under Gustaf Gründgens , in whose staging of Offenbach's bandits he took over the robber captain Falsacappa. In 1951 Reuland began his engagement at the Badische Staatsoper with a guest contract for the Zurich Opera House . Under the general music directors Matzerath and Krannhals, he acquired a large circle of friends here who admired the harmony of vocal and performance design.
In addition to standard roles, the artist sang the title role and Godvino in Verdi's Aroldo , Grigorij-Dimitrij and Prince Schuiskij in Boris Godunow , but also - with Erika Köth as Tatjana - Johann Strauss in the operetta Walzerzauber . Reuland had sung most of the Puccini and had mastered all Verdi roles, except for Othello . As was customary at the time, he sang the operas in German. One of the singer's foreign roles was Hoffmann in Offenbach's opera. Foreign guest appearances have also taken him to the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Poland and Switzerland.
When he ended his career with Don José in Karlsruhe in 1957, he had 3800 stage appearances, around 65 opera and operetta roles, as well as essential oratorios. Besides Karajan, his conductors were Franz Konwitschny , Clemens Krauss , Leo Blech , Eugen Jochum , Otto Ackermann , Heinrich Hollreiser , Richard Strauss , Paul Graener and Otto Matzerath . He played under the directors Gustaf Gründgens, Wolf Völker and Rudolf Hartmann as a lyric tenor, play tenor and Italian heroic tenor. Stage partners were Martha Mödl , Helmut Fehn, Margarete Teschemacher , Hannelore Wolf-Ramponi, Eugen Ramponi, Erika Köth , Marcel Cordes and Hans Hofmann .
He took on directing activities at the Stadttheater Aachen and was also a lecturer at the Volksbildungswerk there. Pedagogical activity began in 1930. Students were Elmy von Karajan (Aachen, Berlin), Regina Waltmann (Düsseldorf, guest Munich), Hetty Plümacher (Oslo, Stuttgart), Charlotte Raab (Darmstadt), Gertrude Höch (Düsseldorf), and Gustl Römer-Hahn (Aachen, Hamburg, Gelsenkirchen) and Hans Madin (Aachen, Darmstadt).
Christoph Reuland had lived in Karlsruhe until 1964, then moved with his wife Hilla to Völkersbach and finally to Bad Herrenalb-Rotensol in 1980.
Engagements
| 1926/27 | 1. Lyr. Tenor, Stadttheater Oberhausen |
| 1927/28 | 1. Lyr. and play tenor, Stadttheater Halberstadt |
| 1928/29 | 1. Lyr. and play tenor, Landestheater Sondershausen |
| 1929/30 | 1st play tenor, Stadttheater München-Gladbach |
| 1930-33 | 1st playing tenor, Szczecin |
| 1933/34 | 1st play tenor, Landestheater Beuthen OS |
| 1934-39 | 1. Lyr. and play tenor, Stadttheater Aachen, (Herbert von Karajan) |
| 1939-41 | 1. Lyr. and play tenor, Stadttheater Gießen |
| 1941/42 | 1st play tenor, City Theater Nuremberg |
| 1942-45 | 1. Lyr. Tenor, Deutsche Oper Oslo and Theater des Volkes, Berlin |
| 1945-51 | 1. Ital. Heldentenor, Düsseldorf Opera House (Gustaf Gründgens) |
| 1951-56 | 1. Ital. Hero tenor, bath. Karlsruhe State Theater and Zurich City Theater for 2 years |
Guest performances
- State theaters: Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart, Danzig, Oldenburg, Wiesbaden (International Festival)
- Opera houses: Cologne, Wuppertal, Essen, Dortmund, Duisburg, Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Hanover, Mainz, Lübeck
- Abroad: Holland, Belgium, Norway, Poland, Switzerland
repertoire
Hero tenor games
| Auber | Fra Diavolo | Title role |
| Beethoven | Fidelio | Florestan |
| Bittner | Hellish gold | devil |
| Bizet | Carmen | Don José |
| Luck | Iphigenia in Aulis | Achilles |
| Hindemith | Mathis the Painter | cardinal |
| Janáček | Jenůfa | Laca |
| Mascagni | Cavalleria Rusticana | Turiddu |
| Mehul | Joseph et al. his brothers | Joseph |
| Mussorgsky | Boris Godunov | Dimitrij, Schuiskij |
| Offenbach | Hoffmann's stories | Hoffmann |
| Puccini | La bohème | Rudolf |
| Puccini | Madame Butterfly | Linkerton (Pinkerton) |
| Puccini | Manon Lescaut | De Grieux |
| Puccini | Tosca | Cavaradossi |
| Smetana | The kiss | Luke |
| Strauss, R. | Arabella | Matteo |
| Strauss, R. | Ariadne on Naxos | Bacchus |
| Verdi | Aida | Radames |
| Verdi | Aroldo | Aroldo, Godvino |
| Verdi | Don Carlos | Title role |
| Verdi | A masked ball | Richard |
| Verdi | Ernani | Title role |
| Verdi | Power of fate | Don Alvaro |
| Verdi | Rigoletto | Duke (stud.) |
| Verdi | Simone Boccanegra | Gabriele Adorno |
| Verdi | troubadour | Manrico |
| wagner | Mastersingers | David |
| wagner | Rheingold | mime |
| wagner | Tannhauser | Title role (stud.) |
| Weber | Freischütz | Max |
| Weinberger | Schwanda, the bagpiper | Babinski |
| Wolf Ferrari | Sly | Title role |
| Nice | Troilus et al. Cressida | Achilles |
Lyric parts
| Adam | Postillon v. Lonjumeau | Title role |
| Auber | Fra Diavolo | Lorenzo |
| Lortzing | Wildschütz | Baron Kronthal |
| Lortzing | The two shooters | Gustav Busch |
| Mozart | Bastien et al. Bastienne | Bastien |
| Mozart | So fan tutte | Ferrando |
| Mozart | Magic Flute | Tamino |
| Nicolai | Funny women | Fenton |
| Rossini | Barber of Seville | Almaviva |
| Smetana | the sold bride | Hans |
| Strauss, R. | Ariadne on Naxos | Brighella |
| Strauss, R. | Rosenkavalier | Singer |
| Thomas | Mignon | Wilhelm Meister |
| wagner | Tannhauser | Walter vd Vogelweide |
Operettas
| Dostal | Clivia | Juan Damigo |
| Dostal | Extra leaves | Attache |
| Dostal | Hungarian wedding | Count Bardossi |
| Lehár | Count of Luxembourg | Title role |
| Lehár | Land of smiles | Son Chon |
| Lehár | Paganini | Title role |
| Millöcker | Beggar student | Jan Janicki |
| Millöcker | Gasparone | Conte Erminio |
| Offenbach | Bandits | Falsacappa |
| Strauss, J. | Ball night in Florence | Nicco |
| Strauss, J. | bat | Eisenstein |
| Strauss, J. | Night in venice | Caramello |
| Strauss, J. | Gypsy baron | Barinkay |
| Straightener | Ännchen von Tharau | Simon Dach, Joh. Portatius |
| Soup | Boccaccio | Title role |
| Zeller | Bird dealer | Title role |
Oratorios
| Beethoven | Ninth symphony |
| Britten | Serenade for tenor, horn a. orchestra |
| Mendelssohn | Elias |
Songs
Beethoven, Dvořák, Mozart, Schubert, Strauss
literature
- KJ Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Unchanged edition. KG Saur, Bern, 1993, second volume M – Z, Sp. 2449 f., ISBN 3-907820-70-3
Web links
- Christoph Reuland in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Christoph Reuland at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karlsruher Theatergeschichte by Wilhelm Kappler et al. 1982, page 136
- ^ Düsseldorfer Nachrichten of June 28, 1988, author Alfons Houben
- ^ Badische Latest News, June 14, 1978. Author: Franz Josef Wehinger
- ↑ Mittelbadische Presse, February 8, 1983. Author: Franz Josef Wehinger
- ^ Badische Neuste Nachrichten, June 15, 1968. Author: Franz Josef Wehinger
- ^ Badische Latest News, February 4, 1983. Author: Franz Josef Wehinger
- ↑ Record of Christoph Reuland private archive Ragnar Reuland
- ↑ Record of Christoph Reuland private archive Ragnar Reuland
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reuland, Christoph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (tenor) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 1983 |
| Place of death | Bad Herrenalb |