Franz Dalle Aste

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Dalle Aste in Darmstadt in 1855 as Tsar Peter in Meyerbeer's opera Nordstern

Dalle Aste, Franz Maria (born December 4, 1820 in Rovereto , in the Trentino-South Tyrol region , † unknown, not before 1888 ), was an Austrian opera singer.

Life

He received his first musical training as a choirboy in his hometown of Rovereto. At the age of 19 he was tutored in Vienna by the court opera singer Josef Staudigl and trained as a bassist . His name is mentioned for the first time in a musical journal in connection with a performance at the kk Nationaltheater in Innsbruck , where he played the role of the tsar in Lortzing's opera "Zar und Zimmermann" in December 1842. The following year he performed with the Italian opera company Romani in Linz and Budapest. From 1844 to 1847 he was engaged in Vienna, where he enjoyed success as a bass baritone at the Kärntnertor Theater , the Theater in der Josefstadt , and the Theater an der Wien . With his teacher Staudigl, he repeatedly participated in concerts of the Vienna Choir Regent Association. In 1848 he moved to the opera in Hamburg , where he was soon poached by the Schwerin court theater . In 1850 he was engaged at the royal court opera in Dresden , then the artist returned to Tyrol, where he got in touch with the director of the imperial Italian opera in Paris who hired him for his company. On February 2, 1854, he made his debut at the Paris Opera as Podesta in Rossini's La gazza ladra . From 1855 to 1860 he was a member of the grand ducal court theater in Darmstadt . Although he had been promoted to chamber singer there and had already signed a new contract with the management of the court theater, he switched to the Deutsche Oper in Rotterdam, which offered a higher salary than the Darmstadt court opera director Karl Tescher was willing to give him. The engagement in Rotterdam, which lasted from 1860 to 1868, was changeable. Highly praised by some of the audience, he was repeatedly criticized by the purists among opera fans because he tended to exaggerate in the portrayal of the roles he embodied.

Two events occurred during the Rotterdam period that can be described as minor theater scandals: During the performance of Fidelio, the misfortune happened that Dalle Aste injured the singer Bertram-Mayer in the heat of the moment with a wooden ax, so that she was in the open scene had to be carried off the stage. While this incident, which was based on cockiness and clumsiness, was only worth a brief note to the critics, another misconduct by the artist almost turned into an affair: While performing Flotow's "Martha" , the artist had carried away a little physical attack against a singer who then refused to sing a duet with him following this scene. Although she was persuaded to continue singing after a long period of persuasion, the result was that the offended woman had a crying fit at the beginning of the song. As a result of this incident, Dalle Aste lost a lot of respect among the otherwise loyal female audience

When he was not playing, he also accepted offers from other companies and appeared as a guest in front of audiences in Riga, Lisbon, Madrid and London, among others. A performance in Königsberg in July 1856 deserves special mention because of its great success.

In 1872 Dalle Aste's vocal qualities were still noteworthy. Nevertheless, from this time on, his name appears less and less on the cast list of opera houses. His last public appearances were limited to performances at the Bolzano City Theater, where he opened a singing school in 1877. In the mid-1880s he founded a singing school in Königsberg (Prussia) . The artist spent his twilight years in Berlin, where he hoped for a better income as a singing teacher giving private lessons. In 1888 he celebrated his 40th anniversary on stage.

Dalle Aste was married twice. In September 1858 he was divorced from his wife Karolina Franziska Würth due to a temporary divorce from table and bed. He then converted to the Protestant faith and married a young Protestant whose name was unknown. The death of the once celebrated bass player went unnoticed by the public. Neither the place nor the time of his death is known.

literature

Large singer lexicon by KJ Kutsch, Leo Riemens, Vol. 4, p. 989

Web link

Image Dalle-Aste, Franz Maria, portrait collection ÖNB, Port_00017101_01 [1]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical Lexicon of the Austrian Empire, with reference to the Hamburger Theater-Chronik, 7th year (1854), No. 72
  2. ^ Wiener Allgemeine Musikzeitung, December 24, 1842, p. 3
  3. ^ Wiener Allgemeine Musikzeitung, May 16, 1843
  4. ^ Wiener Zeitschrift January 9, 1847, p. 3
  5. ↑ Signals for the musical world Leipzig 1848, booklet 33, p. 261
  6. ^ Signals for the musical world Leipzig 1860, issue 38, p. 445
  7. ^ Niederrheinische Musik-Zeitung, April 25, 1863
  8. ^ Salzburger Zeitung, December 6, 1860, p. 3
  9. ^ Wiener Theater Chronik, May 8, 1862, p. 1
  10. ^ Neue Wiener Musik-Zeitung, August 24, 1853, p. 2
  11. ↑ Innsbrucker Nachrichten, July 21, 1856, p. 11
  12. ↑ "Dalle Aste zings splendidly." Jacob David Mees Tagboek 1872 - 1874, page 48
  13. ^ Signals for the musical world, 1888, issue 29, p. 457
  14. ^ Tiroler Schützen-Zeitung September 20, 1958, p. 5
  15. ^ The in-between act, September 4, 1860, p. 3
personal data
SURNAME Dalle Aste, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dalle Aste, Franz Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian opera singer
DATE OF BIRTH December 4, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Rovereto , in the Trentino-South Tyrol region
DATE OF DEATH after 1888