Elise Elizza
Elise Elizza , actually Elisabeth last groschen , married Elisabeth Limley ( January 6, 1870 in Vienna - June 3, 1926 there ) was an Austrian opera singer ( soprano ) and singing teacher .
Life
Elizza began her career as an operetta soubrette at the Carltheater in 1893 after taking singing lessons from her husband, Adolf Limley , and made her debut as "Margit" in Charles Weinberger's Laughing Heirs . Afterwards she went to the Stadttheater in Olomouc and in 1895 was engaged at the Hofopertheater in Vienna. Her inaugural role "Ines" in L'Africaine ( Giacomo Meyerbeer ) took place without a previous rehearsal. For further training, she took lessons from Amalie Materna . In 1913 she was appointed kuk chamber singer . After she left the Association of the Court Opera Theater on August 30, 1918, she worked as a singing teacher from 1919.
She died in 1926 and was found in the Vienna Central Cemetery (New Israelite Department, Fourth Gate, Grave 3/4/3; on the grave monument copper relief of the State Opera, tree with a singing bird and the inscription “I consecrate my life to beauty” by Emil Ranzenhofer ( 1864–1930)) buried.
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 226 f., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Andrea Harrandt: Elizza, Elise (own last groschen, Elisabeth). 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 .
- Elizza, Elise (1870–1926), singer. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 242.
- Entry on Elise Elizza in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Hugo Riemann : Riemann Music Lexicon . Volume 1. Person Part A – K. Mainz: Schott 1959
- Our home town. Journal for Regional Studies of Lower Austria 37 (1966), p. 43 (* 1868)
- Franz Hadamowsky , Alexander Witeschnik (Ed.): Hundred Years of Vienna Opera on the Ring [anniversary exhibition]. Vienna: Action Committee 100 year celebration of the Vienna State Opera 1969, p. 85 (* 1870)
- Hans Havelka: The Vienna Central Cemetery . Vienna: Jugend und Volk 1989, p. 122
- Hans Markl: Do you know the famous final resting places in Vienna's cemeteries? Volume 1: Central cemetery and crematorium (urn grove). Vienna: Pechan 1961, p. 159 (* 1868)
- Morgenblatt der Neue Freie Presse, June 4, 1926
Web links
- Recordings by Elise Elizza in the catalog of the German National Library
- Elisabeth Elizza in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- Elise Elizza at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- Sound recordings with Elise Elizza from the archives of the Austrian Media Library
- Elise Elizza and Hermine Kittel sing the barcarole from Hoffmann's stories
Remarks
- ↑ Year of birth according to Eisenberg, the death certificate says 1868 , see source of the City of Vienna
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Elizza, Elise |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Last groschen, Elisabeth (real name); Limley, Elisabeth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian opera singer (soprano) and singing teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 3, 1926 |
| Place of death | Vienna |