Elisabeth Řebíček-Löffler

Elisabeth Řebíček-Löffler , née Elisabeth Löffler (* 1849 , † 1921 in Berlin ) was a German opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Elisabeth Löffler was committed to Wiesbaden in 1868 at the age of 19 after her first engagements in Leipzig and Karlsruhe . Wiesbaden had become Prussian in 1866, and the former Herzoglich-Nassau Theater subsequently became part of the Royal Prussian Drama, which was administered by the General Directorate in Berlin. On July 11th she made her official debut with Pamina in the Magic Flute . This was a special challenge for her, because the star guest that evening was Ilma de Murska , k. k. Court opera singer who sang the role of Queen of the Night .

Elisabeth Löffler stayed at the Wiesbaden Theater until 1883 and sang almost all the roles for dramatic soprano that were included in the repertoire of the time. Her repertoire in these years comprised almost 80 operas, from Mozart and Donizetti to French opera ( Auber , Halevy , Massenet , Gounod ), German romantic opera ( Weber , Lortzing , Schumann ), the greater part of Wagner operas (except the Ring , which was not given in Wiesbaden at this time) to operas that are largely unknown today (e.g. The Albigensians by de Swert ).

Elisabeth Löffler married the royal Kapellmeister Josef Řebíček in 1872 , who ran the Wiesbaden Opera alongside Jahn. The marriage remained childless. When Josef Řebíček moved to Warsaw in 1882, Elisabeth Řebíček-Löffler also gave up her Wiesbaden commitment in 1883 and followed him on his other professional positions, next to Warsaw to Budapest, then again to Wiesbaden and finally to Berlin in 1897.

Like many singers of her time, she was in poor health after 15 years of strenuous work on the stage with an average of three performances a week. The doctors stated u. a. Obesity and difficulty breathing. So she finally received a pension at the beginning of the 1890s. She also worked as a singing teacher .

When Josef Řebíček died in 1904, their economic situation deteriorated. If the couple still lived in the immediate vicinity of the Philharmonic , they now had to move to a cheaper new building area. She decided on Friedenau and moved there to Wiesbadener Strasse 24 (now 86). During this time, Friedenau attracted many artists, including Max Bruch , with whom the couple had already worked in Wiesbaden. She lived there until 1921, increasingly plagued by financial worries, as the couple, as she wrote to the pension fund in Wiesbaden for help , had invested most of their savings in Hungarian and Czech war bonds , which were now worthless. When she died in 1921, she was buried in her husband's grave in the Dorotheenstadt cemetery .

literature

• Jürgen Pyschik: As a soprano at the Royal Theater 1866–1883 , Wiesbaden 2009