Elise Kutscherra de Nys

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Elise Kutscherra de Nys upon her arrival in the USA, November 13, 1914

Elise Kutscherra de Nyß , also Elise Kutschera de Nysz , born Elise Kutscherra ( June 10, 1867 in Berlin , Kingdom of Prussia - December 29, 1945 in Vienna ) was a Prussian opera singer ( soprano ) and singing teacher .

Life

By parentage she was a real Slav, because her father was a Bohemian and her mother a Polish. From both of them she seemed to have inherited the energy of temperament and the love of music.

Barely out of school, she also took singing lessons from Signora Rosa da Ruda , later from Madame Désirée Artôt de Padilla, and received her last training from Professor Julius Hey . In this way she first got to know the Italian, then the French and German singing technique and was thus in the pleasant position of being able to apply and utilize the various methods.

She dared her first stage attempt on July 27, 1888 at the Kroll Opera House (as "Margarethe"). Her performance was extremely satisfactory and in the same year she received an application to the court theater in Altenburg, where she worked in a preferred artistic position until 1889.

In 1889 she went to Coburg, where she was appointed ducal chamber singer in 1894 . The artist made her voice sound not only in Germany, but also in Brussels, London and the USA, partly on stage, partly as a concert singer.

Particularly noteworthy is her guest appearance as "Kriemhild" in 1896, as this was the first engagement at the Paris national stage of a Prussian woman after the Franco-German War of 1870/71.

In 1902 she worked at the Royal Opera in Amsterdam, but also temporarily at this, and soon at that great European stage. In 1902 she made her debut at the imperial court opera theater in Vienna as "Leonore" in Fidelio .

The artist was married to the director of the Dutch Lloyd, Maximilian de Nyß .

In 1914 she sang at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City and announced that she would move her Paris singing school to New York.

Nevertheless, she returned to Europe, where she lived first in Berlin, then in Vienna and died there.

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  1. ↑ Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . 3rd volume. S. 1951, CD-ROM version (= 3rd expanded edition [1997–2000]).
  2. ↑ Mme. Kutscherra To Stay. Europe No Longer The Home of Music Says Belgian Prima Donna . In: New York Times , November 22, 1914. Retrieved November 12, 2014. "When I was here almost twenty years ago, New York had not become the great musical center, but now it has changed ..." 

This article is based on a public domain text from Ludwig Eisenberg's Large Biographical Lexicon of the German Stage in the 19th Century , 1903 edition.

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SURNAME Nyß, Elise Kutscherra de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nysz, Elise Kutschera de; Kutscherra, Elise (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian opera singer (soprano) and singing teacher
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , Kingdom of Prussia
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1945
Place of death Vienna