Francisco d'Andrade

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Francisco d'Andrade as Don Giovanni , around 1890
Max Slevogt : Francisco d'Andrade, reading the newspaper, 1903

Francisco d'Andrade (born January 11, 1859 in Lisbon , † February 8, 1921 in Berlin ) was a Portuguese opera singer ( baritone ).

Life

D'Andrade initially studied law, but was then trained as a singer in Milan by the singers Corrado Miraglia (1821–1881) and Sebastiano Ronconi (1856–1921). In 1882 he made his debut in San Remo as Amonasro in Aida . Then he celebrated successes in Spain, Portugal and Italy, u. a. at La Scala in Milan and at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome. In 1887 he appeared in Moscow as Telramund in Wagner's Lohengrin , the only Wagner role in his repertoire alongside the role of Wolfram in Tannhäuser . In 1889 he guested at the Covent Garden Opera in London before coming to the opera company of impresario Gardini to Berlin, where he in April of the same year at the Kroll Operamade his first appearance as Don Giovanni. Because of his great success in Berlin, he took up residence there permanently. In the 1892/93 season he sang Don Giovanni at the Hamburg Opera under the direction of Gustav Mahler , and in 1897 the same role at the Berlin Opera.

From Berlin he continued to work on the major European stages. From the end of the 1890s, however, his career took place almost exclusively on German stages. In 1906 he sang Don Giovanni at the Salzburg Mozart Festival alongside Lilli Lehmann (Donna Anna), Johanna Gadski (Donna Elvira) and Geraldine Farrar (Zerlina). The musical director was Reynaldo Hahn , with whom Lilli Lehmann had already worked in Paris for a concert Don Giovanni . It was Lehmann's debut as an opera director, and d'Andrade was her third choice after Franz Egenieff and Maurice Renaud (1861–1933) had canceled. D'Andrade had already passed his peak as a singer at that time, but continued to cultivate his starry airs. Because of the champagne aria, there were quarrels between Lehmann and Hahn on the one hand and d'Andrade on the other, who wanted to sing the aria three times in three different languages ​​and refused to lower the tempo from Prestissimo to the Presto of the score. When Portugal entered the war , he had to leave Germany and did not return to Berlin until 1919.

His repertoire included 56 roles in six languages, including numerous roles from French operas. He celebrated his greatest successes as Count Almaviva in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro , as Rigoletto and as Don Giovanni in Mozart's opera of the same name, which was one of his highlights and which he played until he left the opera stage in 1919. Max Slevogt , who was close friends with him, portrayed him several times in this role (see also main article: The champagne song ).

After finishing his opera career, he continued to work as a concert singer. D'Andrade died suddenly on February 8, 1921 in Berlin. He was buried in the family vault in Lisbon.

Sound recordings

There are around ten recordings of d'Andrades on record, including the champagne song , but of poor quality. On the LP "Three Great Baritones" (Rococo, No. 5204) five recordings by d'Andrades are collected:

  • Don Giovanni ( Mozart ): Finch'han dal vino ;
  • La Favorita ( Donizetti ): Vien Leonora ;
  • Carmen ( Bizet ): Votre toast ;
  • Rigoletto ( Verdi ): Cortigiani vil razza ;
  • Tannhäuser ( Wagner ): Like premonition of death .

Honors

literature

Web links

Commons : Francisco d'Andrade  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Article on Francisco de Andrade (Portuguese), accessed October 7, 2016.
  2. See the correspondence between Reynaldo Hahn and Lilli Lehmann, quoted in: Henry-Louis de La Grange: Gustav Mahler. Vienna: Triumph and Disillusion (1904–1907). Volume 3. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1995, pp. 438-439.
  3. Francisco d'Andrade (baritone), accessed October 7, 2016
  4. Belcantissimo , accessed on October 7, 2016.