Colette Lorand

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Colette Lorand-Doetterl (born January 7, 1923 in Zurich ; † April 26, 2019 in Ebenhausen ), actually Colette Grauaug , was a Swiss opera singer .

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Colette Lorand came from a musical family. Her grandmother, of Hungarian origin, was a celebrated singer in her homeland. Colette Lorand grew up in Zurich and initially studied singing at the Hanover Music Academy , later privately with Melitta Hirzel in Zurich.

In 1945 she made her debut at the Stadttheater Basel as Marguerite in the opera Faust by Charles Gounod . From 1951 to 1956 she was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Frankfurt Opera House , where she was hired as a coloratura soprano . In 1955 she appeared as Queen of the Night in the opening performance of the newly built Hamburg State Opera . From 1955 to 1957 and from 1960 to 1969 she was a permanent member of the Hamburg State Opera ensemble. In the 1963/64 season she sang the coloratura part of Frau Fluth in a new production of the opera Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (premiere: Christmas 1963, director: Boleslaw Barlog ). In Hamburg she also sang Evchen for the first time in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg , thus leaving the coloratura subject behind.

From 1969 she had several guest contracts, including with the Munich State Opera , where she appeared regularly in productions by Günther Rennert , the State Theater Stuttgart , the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf . She also appeared as a guest at the Zurich Opera House . International guest appearances have taken Colette Lorand to the opera houses of Rome , Naples , Lisbon , Cairo and Rio de Janeiro, among others . At the Vienna State Opera she successfully appeared as Violetta in La Traviata and as Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte . In 1961 she sang Konstanze in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Teatro San Carlos in Lisbon . On November 22, 1969, she designed the Opera House Dortmund in the European premiere of Marvin David Levy's opera Mourning Becomes Electra ( Mourning Becomes Electra ) the role of Lavinia.

In the 1981/82 season she sang the role of Emilia Marty in the opera The Makropoulos by Leoš Janáček at the Basel City Theater . With this role she also said goodbye to the stage at the end of the 1982/83 season at the Stadttheater Basel.

Since retiring from the stage, Colette Lorand lived in Ebenhausen near Munich .

repertoire

Colette Lorand was best known as a coloratura soprano. Her major operatic roles included Mozart roles such as Konstanze, Queen of the Night and the Figaro Countess, as well as the Traviata and the title role in Salome . Lorand was especially considered a specialist in contemporary and modern music of the 20th century. She sang works by Frank Martin , Hans Werner Henze and Krzysztof Penderecki , among others .

She participated in several opera premieres, including 1966 in Hamburg in incidents during an emergency load by Boris Blacher , in 1972 in Berlin in Elisabeth Tudor by Wolfgang Fortner and in 1973 at the Salzburg Festival in De temporum fine comoedia by Carl Orff . In July 1978 she sang the king's daughter Regan in the world premiere of the opera Lear by Aribert Reimann at the National Theater in Munich . In this role, she appeared in the 1982/83 season (premiere: November 1982) also in the French premiere at the Paris Opera in the French translation of Antoinette Becker's work .

For radio and television, Colette Lorand also undertook rare excursions into the operetta , where she set musical highlights. In 1954 she worked with the NWDR in the title role of The Circus Princess by Emmerich Kálmán . In 1974 she took on the role of landowner Ilona in the film adaptation of the operetta Zigeunerliebe by Franz Lehár for ZDF . In 1971 she sang an operetta role on stage: at the Stuttgart State Opera she took the title role in Kálmán's operetta Die Csárdásfürstin .

Colette Lorand's musical oeuvre, passed down through radio recordings, live recordings and records, has been partially re-released on CD in recent years. In the Elektra opera film from 1981 (director: Götz Friedrich ; conductor: Karl Böhm ) with Leonie Rysanek in the title role, she played the "dark and grim" supervisor.

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  1. ↑ Death Colette Lorand Dötterl , Süddeutsche Zeitung on May 4, 2019
  2. ↑ Helmut Soering: Hamburg State Opera - That was on the program at the time . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . October 15, 2005
  3. ^ Chronicle of the Vienna State Opera 1945–1995, Verlag Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna and Munich 1995.
  4. ↑ The singing actress celebrated her birthday . In: Opera & Dance. Edition 2003/1 (honoring the 80th birthday)
  5. ↑ Gerald Nesien: REIMANNS “LEAR” AT THE OPERA . Performance review. In: Orpheus . Issue February 2, 1983. Page 178/179.
  6. ^ Margot E. Hoffmann: "ELEKTRA" by GÖTZ FRIEDRICH (based on Richard Strauss) . Movie review. In: Orpheus . Issue December 12, 1982. Page 949/950.
personal data
SURNAME Lorand, Colette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grauaug, Colette (real name); Lorand-Doetterl, Colette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss soprano
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 2019
Place of death Ebenhausen