Emmy Kruger
Emmy Krüger (born January 27, 1886 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe , † March 13, 1976 in Zurich ) was a German opera singer ( soprano ).
Life
Emmy Krüger attended the Raff'sche Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main and received lessons from Lilli Lehmann in Berlin. She began her career in 1910 at the Stadttheater Zürich , of which she was a member until 1914.
At the Leipzig Opera House she performed the world premiere of the opera “ Don Juan's Last Adventure ” by Paul Graener on June 11, 1914, and in the same year followed a call to the Munich Court Opera , where she worked successfully until 1919. There she sang the title role in the premiere of Korngold's Violanta on March 28, 1916 . In another world premiere she took on the role of Silla in the opera Palestrina by Hans Pfitzner on June 12, 1917 , which took place at the Prinzregententheater in Munich .
Emmy Krüger was engaged at the Stadttheater (opera house) in Hamburg from 1919 to 1920 , where she continued to work regularly until 1922. After another engagement from 1920 to 1921 at the Vienna State Opera , of which she became a member in 1922, she only took on guest roles. She made a name for herself as a leading representative of the highly dramatic subject and gained importance as a Wagner interpreter. From 1924 to 1930 she was a guest at the Bayreuth Festival , where she was heard in 1924 and 1925 as Kundry in Parsifal , in 1927 as Isolde in Tristan und Isolde and in 1930 as Sieglinde in Die Walküre .
She undertook in 1924 a large US - tour , joined in the concert hall in Scheveningen and sang in 1929 the role of Sieglinde at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysees in Paris .
From 1937 to 1944 she taught at the Academy of Music in Munich and from 1949 to 1952 she ran an opera school in Zurich.
The singer's career is characterized by guest appearances and in particular by concert appearances in the European music metropolises and she was particularly committed to the lieder of the Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck .
Emmy Krüger announced her retirement from the stage in 1931. In 1937 she succeeded Anna Bahr-Mildenburg as head of the opera class at the Academy of Music in Munich and later lived as a singing teacher in Horgen on Lake Zurich . From 1945 to 1950 she lived in Ancona before returning to Zurich.
Even if her work fell at a time when sound recordings were already being made, including singers who were of far less importance, there are no recordings of the voice of Emmy Krüger available.
Repertoire (selection)
- Eglantine by Puiset in “ Euryanthe ” by Carl Maria von Weber
- Brünnhilde in The Ring of the Nibelung (“ Die Walküre ”, “ Siegfried ” and “ Götterdämmerung ”) by Richard Wagner
- Amneris and Aida in “ Aida ” by Giuseppe Verdi
- Eboli in “ Don Carlos ” by Giuseppe Verdi
- Santuzza in “ Cavalleria rusticana ” by Pietro Mascagni
- Carmen in “ Carmen ” by Georges Bizet
- Selica in “ L'Africaine ” by Giacomo Meyerbeer
- Hilde in " The poor Heinrich " by Hans Pfitzner
- Alaine de l'Estoile in “ Revolution Wedding ” by Eugen d'Albert
- Dalila in " Samson et Dalila " by Camille Saint-Saëns
- Leonore in “ Fidelio ” by Ludwig van Beethoven
- Ortrud in " Lohengrin " by Richard Wagner
- Octavian in " Der Rosenkavalier " by Richard Strauss
literature
- Paul Suter : Emmy Krüger . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1040 f.
Web links
- Emmy Krüger in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Emmy Krüger at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- Emmy Krüger's appearances at the Vienna State Opera
- Emmy Krüger in a radio interview from 1961 on the subject of "getting older"
Individual evidence
- ↑ Emmy Krüger at www.isoldes-liebestod.net , accessed on July 9, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kruger, Emmy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 27, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Homburg vor der Höhe |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 13, 1976 |
| Place of death | Zurich |