Emmy Bettendorf

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Emmy Bettendorf (born July 16, 1895 in Frankfurt am Main , † October 20, 1963 in Berlin ) was a German opera singer with a soprano voice .

Life

Emmy Bettendorf felt drawn to a career as a singer at an early age. At the age of 14 she sang for the first time at the Frankfurt Opera . At the age of 19, she received a two-year contract there in 1914 and made her debut in The Night Camp of Granada by Conradin Kreutzer . In 1916 she moved to Schwerin before moving to Berlin in 1920. There she was employed at the State Opera from 1920 to 1924 , then at the Municipal Opera .

The singer expanded her repertoire in all directions and sang famous roles both as a lyrical and lyrical-dramatic soprano. Guest performances with Bronsgeest's Wanderoper also made her known in Holland, Spain and all over Germany. But as early as 1928 an illness put an end to her operatic career. After that she only appeared in concerts (until 1934) and sang about records. This, however, with an extraordinarily large response. She was one of the most successful shellac stars of the 1930s and left behind more than 300 recordings.

Emmy Bettendorf married in 1931 and has lived in Austria ever since. After the death of her husband in 1938 she was financially so bad that she had to give concerts again. So it was used in the troop support , in the context of which she gave concerts in Poland, Russia, Greece and Albania in front of German soldiers. With the money she earned, she ran a guesthouse in Garmisch. Finally, bassist Michael Bohnen brought her to the Berlin School of Music as a singing teacher. There and at the Berlin Conservatory (today both united in the Berlin University of the Arts ) she taught until 1952. The once celebrated singer spent her last years in Berlin, ill and alone.

The artist's voice has been handed down through recordings, some of which are still available today as CD or MP3 downloads.

Games (selection)

  • A masked ball ( Giuseppe Verdi ): Amelia
  • Don Carlos (Giuseppe Verdi): Elisabeth
  • Troubadour (Giuseppe Verdi): Leonora
  • Tosca ( Giacomo Puccini ): Tosca
  • Marriage of Figaro ( Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ): Countess
  • Don Giovanni (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart): Donna Anna
  • Der Freischütz ( Carl Maria von Weber ): Agathe
  • Siegfried ( Richard Wagner ): Brünnhilde
  • The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (Richard Wagner): Eva
  • The Flying Dutchman (Richard Wagner): Senta
  • Tannhäuser (Richard Wagner): Elisabeth
  • Der Rosenkavalier ( Richard Strauss ): Marschallin
  • Cavalleria rusticana ( Pietro Mascagni ): Santuzza

Discography (selection)

  • Living Past - Four German Sopranos Of The Past (CD). Margarete Bäumer , Emmy Bettendorf, Käthe Heidersbach , Else Gentner-Fischer , Preiser / Naxos, Vienna 1998
  • ABC of the art of singing. Historical song lexicon part 1 (double CD), Cantus-Line DA-Music, Diepholz 2002
  • The Lighter Side of Emmy. Emmy Bettendorf (CD), Harmonia Mundi / Dutton lab, Arles 2005
  • Living past - Emmy Bettendorf (CD), Preiser / Naxos, Vienna 2007

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singing dictionary . Electronic edition of the third, expanded edition. Directmedia, Berlin 2004.
  2. ↑ See facsimile of an original letter from Emmy Bettendorf at www.cantabile-subito.de
personal data
SURNAME Bettendorf, Emmy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1963
Place of death Berlin