Emil Borgmann

Emil Borgmann ( August 11, 1874 in Dortmund - after 1920) was a German opera singer ( tenor ).

Life

Borgmann, the son of one Rendanten, received a free place and a sustentation fee at the Weimar Conservatory after graduating from high school and was later trained further at the expense of the Vienna Court Opera Theater. His singing teachers were from Franz von Milde in Weimar, Evelyne Muschler-Solbrig in Berlin and Marie Löwe-Destinn in Prague. Diligence and understanding soon helped the young singer, under such excellent guidance, to a certain degree of stage maturity, and even if he could not deny the beginner on his first debut as Gomez at the Vienna Court Opera, he found general, friendly support from the audience.

Borgmann made rapid progress and his next engagement in Lübeck in 1897 (inaugural role "Lohengrin") made it easy to see his great progress.

In October 1899 he made his debut as “Manrico” at the Theater des Westens in Berlin and in 1900 joined the Association of Hamburg City Theater, where he also introduced himself as “Manrico”.

From 1900 to 1903 he was engaged at the City Theater of Hamburg. He then moved to Essen and worked at the Graz Theater from 1908 to 1911, at the Kurfürstenoper Berlin from 1912 to 1913 and at the Dessau Court Theater from 1913–15.

At the Bayreuth Festival in 1902 he sang "Erik" in the Flying Dutchman , and in 1904 in the same role at the Munich Opera Festival.

Then he worked as a guest, u. a. at the Court Opera in Dresden, the Court Theaters in Mannheim and Karlsruhe and the Opera House in Frankfurt am Main. During the First World War he was engaged as a hero tenor in Berlin. In the 1920s he appeared on various stages in the Rhineland. The place and time of death are unknown.

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 114, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

• Emil Borgmann's appearances at the Vienna State Opera
• Emil Borgmann picture in the Manskopf Collection of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
• Emil Borgmann at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon

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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