Claire Dux
Claire Dux , actually Clara Auguste Dux (born August 2, 1885 in Witkowo near Gnesen , † October 8, 1967 in Chicago ) was a German opera singer (soprano).
Life
After she had moved to Bromberg as a child with her parents , her musical training began, which later took her to Berlin, among others, to Adolf Deppe , and to Milan. In 1906 she made her debut as an opera singer in Cologne as Pamina in Mozart's Magic Flute . After leaving Cologne in 1911, she went to Berlin to the Royal Opera , where she was engaged until 1918. After the end of the First World War, she worked as a concert soprano at various houses, including the Stockholm Opera . In 1921 she went to the United States, where she sang with the Civic Opera Company of Chicago until 1926. Then she withdrew into private life.
She was in her third marriage since August 1926 with the American meat producer Charles H. Swift - from Swift & Company - after she had previously been married in her first marriage to the general director of IG Farben and later writer Wilhelm Alfred Imperatori (1878-1940) . She had divorced him because of the actor Hans Albers . The marriage with Albers broke up in the mid-1920s.
Salvador Dalí painted the picture "Melancholy - Portrait of the singer Claire Dux" in 1942.
Web links
- Claire Dux at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- "Living past: Claire Dux", album review by Uncle Dave Lewis at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Living Past - Claire Dux" ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2011 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. (PDF; 2.3 MB), Alex Natan
- ^ "Melancholy - Portrait of the singer Claire Dux" by Salvador Dalí
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dux, Claire |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dux, Clara Auguste (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Witkowo near Gniezno |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 8, 1967 |
| Place of death | Chicago |