Edda Moser

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Edda Moser (born October 27, 1938 in Berlin ) is a German opera singer ( soprano ) and university teacher .

Life

Edda Moser is the daughter of the musicologist Hans Joachim Moser and his second wife Dorothea geb. Duffing. The cellist Johannes Moser (* 1979) and the pianist Benjamin Moser (* 1981) are her nephews.

She studied singing at the Berlin Conservatory with Hermann Weissenborn and Gerty König. From 1962 to 1963 she was engaged at the Würzburg City Theater, then in Hagen and Bielefeld . In 1968 she sang in Salzburg under Herbert von Karajan , the Wellgunde in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen . Before moving to the Vienna State Opera , she was part of the ensemble of the Frankfurt Opera from 1968 to 1971 .

Herbert von Karajan brought her to the Metropolitan Opera New York , where she made a spectacular debut as Queen of the Night . Her debut was in Wagner's Rheingold . At the Metropolitan Opera she then sang in new productions of Die Entführung aus dem Serail , Handel's Rinaldo and as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni .

Edda Moser made her debut as a sexton in Leoš Janáček's opera Jenůfa at the Bonn Opera in 1995 .

Edda Moser sees her Munich recording of the Magic Flute with the difficult to sing aria of revenge of the Queen of the Night under the baton of Wolfgang Sawallisch as the highlight of her career . The recording was made in August 1972 at Electrola .

In an interview with Fono-Forum on her 75th birthday, she describes the history of the recording:

“I still remember the creation of this legendary 'Magic Flute' very well, it was like a miracle. With Kurt Moll , Theo Adam , Walter Berry and Peter Schreier , we had a completely German-speaking ensemble at the time, which in itself was extraordinary. I was hired as Queen of the Night for this recording. When I came to Munich, the producer Helmut Storjohann said to me: 'There is a little problem: Mrs Sawallisch doesn't want you to be queen.' Whereupon I asked what Mrs. Sawallisch had to do with the recording? Then Helmut Storjohann, whom I admire, said: 'If the Edda doesn't sing Queen of the Night, the whole production will be canceled!' Sawallisch then bit into the sour apple and asked me a bit coolly at the first session whether I would like to start with the first or second aria. I said I'd be happy to take the second. And in this anger that I had because they didn't want me, I put all the anger into the aria and sang it through in one take. And this recording is now on the record and hovers somewhere above the stars. "

In a conversation with Holger Wemhoff, she describes how she was informed that the aria of the Queen of the Night was selected from this recording so that she could leave the solar system on board the Voyager 2 space probe . She sang this aria one last time at the Paris Opera under the conductor Karl Böhm .

Edda Moser ended her singing career on February 2, 1994 with the “Salome” in Vienna. She felt this as "death", but she wanted to be remembered as a singer and changed her life. It was considered a singer who particularly Mozart operas could sing, but she had also fond of Richard Wagner , the Brünnhilde and Isolde sung. She very much regrets that this was not possible.

Since the 1980s she has been leading master classes at various institutes and conservatories (European Academy for Music and Performing Arts), the Young Munich Philharmonic , Mozarteum Salzburg and was a professor at the Cologne University of Music .

In addition, Edda Moser feels particularly committed to maintaining and maintaining the German language. She is the initiator and artistic director of the “ Festival of the German Language ”, founded in 2006 and based on the recommendation of Federal Foreign Minister a. D. Hans-Dietrich Genscher has been taking place every September in the historic Goethe Theater Bad Lauchstädt since 2007 .

Her autobiography, written together with Thomas Voigt, was published in March 2011 under the title "Ersungenes Glück".

Edda Moser lives in Rheinbreitbach south of Bonn.

Awards

Repertoire (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Edda Moser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dagmar Droysen-Reber :  Moser, Hans Joachim. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , pp. 191-193 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Edda Moser. (PDF; 210 kB) Biography on Edda Moser's website, May 25, 2008, archived from the original on December 5, 2008 ; accessed on September 16, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Act II, Der Hoelle Rache (Moser, Sawallisch) . Archive.org, accessed on September 16, 2017 (mp3, 3.4 MB, 2:56 minutes).
  4. ↑ Björn Woll: Edda Moser: "I never had a subject, I only sang roles" . Fono Forum , September 2013, accessed September 16, 2017.
  5. ↑ Cover of the production Edda Moser sings Mozart and in conversation with Holger Wemhoff. EMI, accessed on September 16, 2017 (jpeg; 35 kB).
    Edda Moser sings Mozart and in conversation with Holger Wemhoff. Spotify , accessed September 16, 2017.
  6. ^ Voyager Golden Record
  7. ↑ Bjørn Woll: The great soprano turns 75: a visit to Edda Moser. WDR 3 broadcast “Tonart”, October 25, 2013, archived from the original on November 10, 2013 ; accessed on September 16, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Well-known members of the German Language Association. German Language Association V., archived from the original on February 8, 2017 ; accessed on September 16, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Die Sprachwahrer of 2006 . Association for language maintenance e. V., accessed on September 16, 2017.
  10. ↑ Prime Minister Haseloff pays tribute to the German Language Festival and awards its initiator with the Order of Merit of the State . Press release of the State Chancellery of Saxony-Anhalt , 413/2014, September 12, 2014, accessed on September 16, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Moser, Edda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (soprano) and university teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin