List of honorary members of the Vienna State Opera
The list of honorary members of the Vienna State Opera contains all honorary members of the 1869 Court Opera opened Vienna State Opera , including the year of the awarding of honorary membership.
The award
Honorary membership is awarded by the State Opera on the proposal of the director with the approval of the works council and the holding company. Honorary members can become artists who have been associated with the opera for many years, as well as people who have done a lot for the house.
Since 2004 the honorary members are also ring bearers, until 2004 the honorary membership was only awarded with a certificate. The ring was designed by Hermann Gmeiner-Wagner ( Juwelier Wagner ) and bears the name of the recipient. The top of the ring shows an engraving of the outside view of the State Opera, the inside of the ring shows the auditorium.
Some honorary members received the ring retrospectively: Ioan Holender received honorary membership in 1995, and in 2004 he was also awarded the ring. Plácido Domingo and Jose Carreras became honorary members in 1988 and additional ring bearers in 2012 and 2013, respectively. Neil Shicoff received honorary membership in 2003 and was also awarded the ring in 2004.
Johan Botha was awarded honorary membership in 2016, the official celebration was postponed due to illness, Botha died before the planned official award of the certificate.
Honorary members
- 1881: Johann Nepomuk Beck , Gustav Walter
- 1882: Josef von Mesterházy, Peter Soutschek (both choir)
- 1883: Louis von Bignio , Maria Wilt (1834–1891), singer
- 1884: Bertha von Dillner
- 1886: Mathilde Wessely (choir)
- 1895: Louis Frappart (also Louis Ruault-Frappart and Louis Ruault, 1832–1921), dancer; Karl Mayerhofer (also Carl Mayerhofer)
- 1897: Georg Müller (1840–1909), tenor
- 1903: Hermann Winkelmann
- 1907: Thomas Koschat
- 1910: Fritz Schrödter , August Stoll (1853–1918), singer, director and composer
- 1915: Joseph Haßreiter
- 1920: Laura Hilgermann
- 1923: Maria Jeritza , Erik Schmedes
- 1925: Marie Gutheil-Schoder
- 1926: Richard Mayr , Alfred Piccaver , Leo Slezak
- 1927: Lucie Weidt (1876–1940), soprano
- 1928: Anna Bahr-Mildenburg , Lotte Lehmann
- 1929: Selma Kurz
- 1931: Arnold Rosé
- 1932: Helene Wildbrunn
- 1934: Felix Weingartner
- 1935: Gusti Pichler (also Gusti Short-Pichler, 1893–1978), dancer
- 1937: Emil Schipper , Elisabeth Schumann
- 1941: Georg Maikl
- 1945: Bruno Walter
- 1949: Hans Pfitzner , Richard Strauss
- 1955: Hans Duhan , Anny Konetzni , Hilde Konetzni , Mária Németh
- 1959: Maria Reining
- 1960: Alfred Jerger
- 1961: Rosette Anday
- 1962: Max Lorenz , Ljuba Welitsch
- 1963: Franz Salmhofer
- 1966: Ludwig Weber , Karl Madin
- 1967: Christel Goltz , Paul Schöffler
- 1968: Karl Böhm , Josef Krips , Birgit Nilsson
- 1969: Anton Dermota , Elisabeth Höngen , Erich Kunz , Irmgard Seefried , Ernst August Schneider (1902–1976), director of the Vienna State Opera
- 1970: Marie Gerhart , Hans Hotter , Heinrich Reif-Gintl , Josef Witt
- 1971: Sena Jurinac , Wilhelm Loibner (1909–1971, accompanist and Kapellmeister, posthumously)
- 1972: Hilde Güden
- 1973: Karl Friedrich
- 1974: Leonie Rysanek
- 1975: Herbert Alsen , Karl Dönch , Willy Fränzl , Esther Réthy , Julia Drapal (1917–1988), dancers
- 1976: Rudolf Gamsjäger
- 1977: Hans Braun , Hilde Zadek
- 1979: Leonard Bernstein , Herbert von Karajan , Gerda Scheyrer
- 1980: Edeltraud Brexner , Otto Schenk , Giuseppe Taddei
- 1981: Hans Beirer , Walter Berry , Gundula Janowitz , Christa Ludwig , Egon Seefehlner , Marcel Prawy , Eberhard Waechter , Otto Wiener
- 1982: Oskar Czerwenka , Otto Edelmann , Peter Klein , Waldemar Kmentt , Wilma Lipp , Emmy Loose , Friederike Mehskolitsch
- 1983: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
- 1984: Karl Terkal
- 1987: Lisa Della Casa , Robert Jungbluth , Lotte Rysanek
- 1988: Agnes Baltsa , Jose Carreras , Plácido Domingo , Edita Gruberova , Rudolf Nurejew
- 1989: Nicolai Ghiaurov , Gwyneth Jones , Lucia Popp
- 1991: Piero Cappuccilli , Ileana Cotrubas , Claus Helmut Drese , Heinrich Hollreiser , James King , Alfredo Kraus , Éva Marton
- 1992: Berislav Klobucar , Willy Dirtl
- 1993: Gerhart Hetzel (1940–1992, posthumously), first concertmaster of the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Philharmonic
- 1994: Horst Stein , Heinz Zednik
- 1995: Ioan Holender
- 1996: Renato Bruson
- 1997: Mara Zampieri , Zubin Mehta
- 1998: Bernd Weikl
- 1999: Ernst Märzendorfer , Kurt Rydl
- 2001: Rainer Küchl , Werner Resel
- 2002: Riccardo Muti , Robert Stangl
- 2003: Neil Shicoff
Ring bearer (in addition to honorary membership)
- 2004: Neil Shicoff , Leo Nucci , Peter Schneider , Ioan Holender
- 2006: Thomas Moser , Norbert Balatsch
- 2007: Seiji Ozawa , Ferruccio Furlanetto
- 2008: Georg Springer
- 2010: Marco Arturo Marelli , Franz Grundträger
- 2012: Plácido Domingo , Vienna State Opera Orchestra , Franz Bartolomey
- 2013: José Carreras , Lorin Maazel
- 2014: Alfred Šramek
- 2016: Johan Botha
- 2017: Ádám Fischer , Waltraud Meier
- 2018: Manuel Legris
- 2019: Marco Armiliato
- 2020: Dominique Meyer and Thomas Platzer
Web links
- Honorary members of the State Opera in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
Individual evidence
- ^ Wiener Zeitung: Honorary members are now ring bearers. In future, the State Opera will award rings designed by Juwelier Wagner in addition to the certificate . Article from March 3, 2004, accessed on January 12, 2016.
- ↑ a b Vienna State Opera: The Vienna State Opera mourns the loss of Kammersänger and honorary member Johan Botha ( memento from September 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b Kurier: Star tenor Johan Botha has passed away . Article dated September 8, 2016, accessed September 10, 2016.
- ↑ a b Die Welt: In the end, Johan Botha couldn't win . Article dated September 8, 2016, accessed September 10, 2016.
- ^ Marie Wilt in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- ^ E. Fleissner-Moebius: Ruault-Frappart, Louis; formerly Ruault, Ps. Frappart (1832-1921), dancer, mimic and choreographer. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 9, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7001-1483-4 , p. 306 f. (Direct links on p. 306 , p. 307 ).
- ^ Louis Frappart in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- ^ Sibylle Dahms: Frappart, cousins. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .
- ^ Georg Müller in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- ^ H. Reitterer: Stoll, August. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 311 f. (Direct links on p. 311 , p. 312 ).
- ↑ Lucie Weidt in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- ^ Gusti Pichler in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- ↑ Alexander Rausch : Németh, Maria. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .
- ^ Barbara Boisits: Schneider, Ernst August. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .
- ^ Wilhelm Loibner in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- ↑ Alexander Rausch : Loibner, Wilhelm. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .
- ↑ Julia_Drapal in Vienna History Wiki of the city of Vienna
- ^ Vienna Philharmonic: On the 10th anniversary of Gerhart Hetzel's death . Article dated November 2, 2002, accessed on January 11, 2016.
- ^ Diepresse.com: Franz Bartolomey - 120 years of opera in Vienna! . Article dated July 1, 2012, accessed October 8, 2016.
- ↑ Ádám Fischer becomes an honorary member of the Vienna State Opera . Article from January 20, 2017, accessed on January 20, 2017
- ↑ Waltraud Meier becomes an honorary member of the Vienna State Opera . Article dated June 14, 2017, accessed June 16, 2017.
- ^ The Nureyev Gala was a celebration for Legris . Article dated June 30, 2018, accessed June 30, 2018.
- ↑ In parting, honorary membership for Meyer. In: ORF.at . June 28, 2020, accessed June 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Dominique Meyer and Thomas Platzer appointed honorary members of the Vienna State Opera. In: wiener-staatsoper.at. June 28, 2020, accessed June 28, 2020 .