Elise Capitain

Elise Capitain , also Elise Anschütz and Elise Haase , (* 1820 in Frankfurt am Main ; † June 3, 1895 in Heidelberg ) was a German opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Capitain, daughter of the craftsman Carl Philipp Capitain (born October 31, 1785 in Frankfurt am Main; † November 18, 1835 ibid) and Katharina Mons (born April 10, 1785 in Oberursel; † May 3, 1837 in Frankfurt am Main) entered the stage in her hometown for the first time on April 26, 1837 as "Pamina" in the Magic Flute and developed into an important dramatic singer. With each new role she unfolded new virtues and what she was still lacking in radical dramatic experiences, replaced her natural talent and that instinct that hits the right place everywhere. In 1846 the artist switched to the dramatic field and was seen as “Marie” in the regiment's daughter and as “Zerlina” in Don Giovanni . She achieved further success as "Rachel" in La Juive , "Leonore" in Fidelio and as the leading actress in Gluck's Alceste and Weber's Euryanthe etc. After working in Frankfurt for almost 25 years, she went to the Stadttheater in Mainz (1861-62 ) and at the Stadttheater in Bremen (1862–64). In 1864 she retired from the stage.

In her first marriage (1845) she was married to the baritone player Alexander Anschütz (father-in-law: Heinrich Anschütz , sister-in-law: Marie Emilie Auguste Koberwein ). In 1858 she married Friedrich Haase in London , but this marriage was soon separated. She set up her residence in Heidelberg, where she died on June 3, 1895.

Her brother was Johann Robert von Capitain , who became an officer in the Ottoman Army.

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 378, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

• Elise Capitain Picture in the Manskopf Collection of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ Johann Robert von Capitain ( Memento of the original from May 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at GedBas 

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