Felix Ehrl
Felix Ehrl ( October 30, 1855 in Munich - November 19, 1929 in Kassel ) was a German engineer , opera singer ( bass ), theater actor and theater director .
Life
Ehrl was supposed to become an engineer and was therefore already doing technical training in machine factories.
However, he did not last long there and, supported by a deep bass voice, decided to devote himself to the stage and therefore attended the royal music school in Munich, where Hans Hasselbeck was his singing teacher and Karl Johann Brulliot his dramatic teacher.
Trained in this way, he entered the stage as a "hermit" in the Freischütz at the Bremen City Theater for the first time (1877), then came to the Kroll Opera in Berlin, then to Elberfeld, Chemnitz and Leipzig, and as a representative of a first subject Joined the Association of the German State Theater in Prague in 1883, where this young, ambitious and vocal bassist was met with great sympathy. He became a pillar of the repertoire and over time one of the most popular members of the opera ensemble.
In 1894 he was also given the direction of the opera. After Ehrl had worked successfully on the Prague stage for a full 15 years (he brought all serious bass parts, later also the bass buffo parts, to their best advantage), and also in 1889 on the tour of the Wagner Theater - in the "Nibelungenring" he performed the bass parts Representation - had been involved in Petersburg and Moscow, he left this art institute to follow a call as head director at the second opera house in Berlin (Theater des Westens).
He stayed there for three years and worked from 1901 to 1909 as chief director and singer of the Hamburg City Theater, and from 1909 to 1915 at the Kassel court theater.
He was married to the singer Frieda Herper .
Student (selection)
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 223, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Felix Ehrl in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Felix Ehrl at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ehrl, Felix |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engineer, opera singer (bass), theater actor and theater director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 19, 1929 |
| Place of death | kassel |