Claire Watson

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Claire Watson (born February 3, 1924 in New York , † July 16, 1986 in Utting am Ammersee ) was an American opera singer (soprano). Her domain were the lyrical soprano parts of Mozart , Strauss and Verdi .

Life

Watson studied at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester . In the 1950s she began her career at the Frankfurt Opera . From 1958 to 1976 she was a member of the Bavarian State Opera , where she played Elisabeth in Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser and Tatjana in Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin . Guest engagements also led her to the Vienna State Opera , Bayreuth and Covent Garden . With the role of Field Marshal in Richard Strauss' Rosenkavalier , she said goodbye to the stage in Munich in 1979.

Watson was married to chamber singer David Thaw . She died of a brain tumor at the age of 62. Her grave can be found in the Holzhausen village cemetery near Utting. In the Munich district of Neuhausen-Nymphenburg , a street was named after the singer.

literature

  • Watson, Claire. In: Kutsch / Riemens: Großes Sängerlexikon . P. 25507 f (see Singer Lexicon . Volume 5, p. 3664).
  • In the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek there is a collection of press reviews of their appearances (call number: Fasc.germ. 360).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Notice of death in the St. Petersburg Times of July 18, 1986 ( online at Google News ).

Remarks

  1. ^ According to the tombstone and the age in the Petersburg Times death notice. According to the singer lexicon, she was born in 1927.
  2. ↑ According to the singer lexicon. According to her husband, she gave her stage farewell back in July 1976 (see the Petersburg Times death notice)
personal data
SURNAME Watson, Claire
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American opera singer
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH new York
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1986
Place of death Utting am Ammersee