Emma Mampe-Babnigg

Theater ticket for a guest performance of Mampe-Babnigg on April 5, 1861 at the Stadttheater Düsseldorf

Emma Mampe-Babnigg , also Emma Mampé-Babnigg ( February 25, 1825 in Pest - May 5, 1904 in Vienna ) was an Austrian opera singer ( soprano ) and singing teacher .

Life

Anton Babnigg's daughter caught the eye with her beautiful voice and he himself first gave her singing lessons. In 1843 she dared her first stage attempt as "Rosina" in the barber of Seville at the Dresden Court Theater. She liked and was hired. In the meantime, she went to Paris in 1845 for additional studies, where she attended the Conservatoire National and then gave a few concerts. After three years of service, she came to the Stadttheater in Hamburg, where she was active as a representative of the first coloratura roles until 1849 . From there she went to Breslau, was a member of the opera ensemble of the local city theater until the spring of 1852 and remained the pampered and celebrated darling of the audience all this time. The opera season from 1849 to 1850 in particular was a source of gold for the theater box office. During the whole time of their engagement there, houses were always sold out as soon as the name "Babnigg" appeared on the note. And just like here, she was valued at the Hoftheater in Hanover from 1852 to 1853 and in 1854 during her guest performance in Hamburg, which lasted several months. In 1855 she married Dr. Mampe and withdrew from the stage. She took up residence in Vienna, but continued to give guest performances a. a. at the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna, in Stuttgart, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Madrid and Barcelona as well as at the Hoftheathern in Altenburg and Bernburg.

From 1867 until the 1890s she was a sought-after singing teacher .

She acquired the name of the “Silesian Nightingale” through her art of singing, which reached its culmination point at the time of her engagement in Wroclaw.

She is said to have sung a total of 220 parts. The most important of these were the "Rosina" in the "Barbier von Sevilla", the "Marie" in Donizetti's "Regiment's daughter", the "Lucia di Lammermoor", the "Madeleine" in Adam's "Postillon de Lonjumeau", the "Susanna" in "Figaros Hochzeit" and "Martha" in the opera of the same name by Flotow.

Your students u. a. were the tenor Hugo Grahl (1845–1903), the soprano Thila Plaichinger (1868–1939), the soprano Irene Abendroth and the tenor Hugo Krüger .

literature

Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 636 f., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Alexander Rausch : Mampé-Babnigg, Emma. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .
Emma Mampe-Babnigg at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
Emma Mampe-Babnigg in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)

Individual evidence

↑ Death book Vienna Lutheran City Church, tom. 24, No. 182. Retrieved June 14, 2020 . ; the BMLO gives February 23, 1823 as the date of birth and September 3, 1904 as the date of death.

personal data
SURNAME	Mampe-Babnigg, Emma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mampé-Babnigg, Emma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian opera singer (soprano) and singing teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	February 25, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH	pest
DATE OF DEATH	May 5, 1904
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Death book Vienna Lutheran City Church, tom. 24, No. 182. Retrieved June 14, 2020 . ; the BMLO gives February 23, 1823 as the date of birth and September 3, 1904 as the date of death.