Felix blankets
Felix Blankets ( February 12, 1864 in Wesel - February 10, 1928 in Stuttgart ) was a German theater actor , opera singer ( tenor ) and theater director .
Life
He began his stage career in Rostock in 1892, came to Elberfeld in 1893, where he stayed until 1896 and then joined the Association of the Stuttgarter Hofbühne, where he made his debut as "Beppo" in Fra Diavolo . He represented the subject of the tenor buffo with great success and both his singing and his effective humor interspersed playing received much recognition. "Gomez" in the night camp , "Georg" in armorer , "David" in the Meistersinger , "Mime" in Rheingold and Siegfried , "Eisenstein" in the bat and Lortzing's Buffo games were extremely pleasant performances.
In 1907 he was appointed royal chamber singer and in 1912 received the gold medal for art and science.
He stayed in Stuttgart until his death, where he was also employed as a game director after the end of the First World War .
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 179, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Cooperative of German Stage Members (publisher), Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1929 , publisher: Cooperative of German Stage Members, Berlin, 1929, page 99
Web links
- Felix Blankets at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
Individual evidence
- ↑ life data cited according to: Paul S. Ulrich, Biographical Directory for Theater, Dance and Music. References from German reference works and yearbooks, 2 vol., Berlin 1997, vol. 1, p. 360
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blankets, Felix |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater actor, opera singer (tenor) and theater director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wesel |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 10, 1928 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |