Emilie Welti (singer)
Emilie Welti-Herzog (born December 17, 1859 in Ermatingen , † September 16, 1923 in Aarburg ) was a Swiss opera and concert singer .
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life and work
Emilie Welti was the daughter of the teacher Heinrich Herzog and Barbara, née Hui and grew up in Diessenhofen . Her musical and singing talent was confirmed by Friedrich Hegar . When she had completed her first music and singing lessons at the music school in Zurich , Welti moved to the court theater in Munich , where she was taught by Adolf Schimon and Karl Johann Brulliot . After two years of study, she made her debut on September 10, 1880 as Page Urbain in Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera Les Huguenots ( The Huguenots ).
Emilie Welti was engaged as a singer at the court theater from 1880 to 1889. During these years she appeared on around 650 theater evenings and in over fifty different roles. On February 28, 1889, she appeared in the role of Rosina in Gioachino Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville for the last time in the court theater.
A few days later, Emilie Welti began her new engagement at the Schauspielhaus Berlin and sang Queen of the Night in the Magic Flute as an outstanding Mozart interpreter . She was engaged at the theater until 1910.
Emilie Welti sang on many German stages and was involved in the premieres of the Bayreuth Festival in 1883, 1884 and 1891 . She sang in Paris , Vienna , St. Petersburg and Zurich , among others . In 1896 she was at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow , in 1898 at the Mozart Festival in Munich and from 1899 to 1900 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York .
In Switzerland, Emilie Welti appeared at the Federal Song Festival in St. Gallen in 1886, in Basel in 1893 and at the Swiss Shooting Festival in Winterthur in 1895 .
In 1890 she married the music historian and music critic Heinrich Welti (1859–1937). He organized "historical recitals" for them in German and Swiss cities. Her daughter was the concert soprano and teacher Eva Kötscher -Welti (1896–1964).
Emilie Welti loved to sing passionately moving, dramatically colored pieces by composers such as Franz Schubert and Adolf Jensen . As well as a song singer, she was valued as an oratorio singer. She achieved great importance as a concert singer and as the director of master classes for singing at the conservatories in Berlin 1903 and Zurich from 1910 to 1922.
Web links
- Paul Suter: Emilie Welti-Herzog. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
literature
- Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Volume 4, Walter de Gruyter, 2012, p. 2061
- Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd edition, Volume 4, Walter de Gruyter, 2011, p. 777
Individual evidence
- ↑ Youth and Munich court theater time
- ↑ Schauspielhaus Berlin
- ↑ appearances
- ↑ Eva-Kötscher-Welti p.2442
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Welti, Emilie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Welti-Herzog, Emilie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss classical singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 17, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ermatingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 16, 1923 |
| Place of death | Aarburg |