Erna Denera

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Erna Denera (born September 4, 1879 at Pila Castle in Murowana Goślina near Posen , † March 16, 1938 in Berlin ) was a German opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

After initially studying piano and music theory with Max Reger and Heinrich Spangenberg in Wiesbaden and Wilhelm Kufferath in Bonn, she switched to singing with Franz Delong in Berlin and Heinrich Feinhaus in Milan in 1904 . She made her stage debut in 1906 as Senta in the Flying Dutchman at the Hoftheater in Kassel.

After a brief engagement at the Court Theater in Wiesbaden in 1907, she worked as a soprano at the Berlin Court Opera from 1908 to 1921 , where she was successful with a broad repertoire and was appointed chamber singer .

She made guest appearances - especially with roles from Wagner operas - in Meiningen and Bayreuth, in Madrid and Barcelona, ​​in Brussels and Antwerp. For the 1916/17 season she had an obligation to the Metropolitan Opera in New York City , which she was unable to fulfill because the USA entered the war . In 1919 she took on a role in the film Nocturno of Love . In 1921/22 she gave guest appearances at various Italian theaters.

She spent the last years of her life as a singing teacher in Berlin.

Erna Denera died in Berlin in 1938. Your final resting place is in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf . She carried the Order for Art and Science of Mecklenburg-Strelitz .

Her daughter Lieselotte Denera (born September 29, 1902 in Munich) became an actress and worked in Mannheim, Vienna, Berlin and Munich.

Audio documents

From 1909 to 1915 about 100 recordings (= pages) for the labels Odeon / Parlophon , Deutsche Grammophon , Pathé, Favorite and Anker. Many Wagner titles, including the earliest complete recording of the first act from Richard Wagner's Walküre with the Blüthner Orchestra under Edmund von Strauss .

literature

  • KJ Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Unchanged edition. KG Saur, Bern, 1993, first volume A – L, Sp. 702 f., ISBN 3-907820-70-3
  • Paul Alfred Merbach: Erna Denera. In: Stage and World. 14, 1911/1912, pp. 326-329.
  • Erich H. Müller: German Musicians Lexicon. Dresden 1929.
  • Lexicon of women . Volume 1. Zurich 1953.
  • German Biographical Encyclopedia. 2nd Edition. Volume 2. Munich 2005, p. 552.
  • Discography Erna Denera, In: Discography of German vocal recordings , Volume 4. Bonn: Lotz 2005. ISBN 3-9810248-0-X

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Remarks

  1. ↑ This is apparently a building in Murowana Goślina
personal data
SURNAME Denera, Erna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Murowana Goślina
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1938
Place of death Berlin