Emmy Loose
Emmy Loose , also Emmy Loose-Kriso (born January 22, 1914 in Karbitz , Bohemia , † October 14, 1987 in Vienna ) was an Austrian opera singer (soprano).
Life
Loose studied at the Prague Conservatory and made his debut in 1939 as Blondchen in The Abduction from the Seraglio at the State Theater in Hanover . In 1941 she came to the Vienna State Opera , the ensemble she belonged from 1942 until retirement 1976th
The soprano celebrated great success in more than 40 roles, especially as a Mozart singer and in the easy Italian subject. She embodied Papagena alone 215 times in The Magic Flute , 135 times the blonde in The Abduction from the Seraglio .
She has been a guest at numerous festivals such as the Salzburg Festival , the Maggio Musicale in Florence , Glyndebourne , the Scala in Milan and other opera houses. In 1979 she ended her career and became a teacher at the Vienna Music School and the Summer Academy in Salzburg.
Her sister was the operetta singer Friedl Loor . Emmy Loose rests in the Hietzinger Friedhof in Vienna (group 39, number 25).
Honors
- 1964: Mozart Medal from the Mozart Community in Vienna
- Appointment to the Austrian Chamber Singer
Sound documents (selection)
- Bach : Mass in B minor , with Emmy Loose, Hilde Ceska , Gertrud Burgsthaler-Schuster , Anton Dermota , Alfred Poell , conductor: Hermann Scherchen , Wiener Akademie-Kammerchor , Wiener Symphoniker . Westminster 1950
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : The Abduction from the Seraglio , with Emmy Loose, Wilma Lipp , Walther Ludwig , conductor: Josef Krips , Vienna Philharmonic . Vienna 1950
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Così fan tutte , with Emmy Loose, Lisa della Casa , Christa Ludwig , Anton Dermota , conductor :: Karl Böhm , Wiener Philharmoniker, Vienna 1955
Web links
- Media from and about Emmy Loose in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Emmy Loose in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Communications of the Sudetendeutsches Archiv 53-57 , Sudetendeutsches Archiv (ed.) 1979, p. 35
- ^ Inscription Deutschordenshof, Singerstraße: Emmy Loose 1964 (accessed June 10, 2014)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Loose, Emmy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Loose-Kriso, Emmy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian opera singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 22, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karbitz , Bohemia |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 14, 1987 |
| Place of death | Vienna |