Franz Mazura

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Franz Mazura (2015)

Franz Mazura (born April 22, 1924 in Salzburg ; † January 23, 2020 in Mannheim ) was a German opera and concert singer ( bass baritone ).

education

Franz Mazura studied with Frederick Husler at the Detmold University of Music and already worked as an actor at the Detmold State Theater during his studies .

Due to the dark coloring of his voice and his cutting diction, he was considered an excellent interpreter of classical villains of early to late romantic opera (Don Pizarro from Fidelio , Alberich from Der Ring des Nibelungen , Klingsor from Parsifal , Scarpia from Tosca ), but he still had one Made bigger names in the modern repertoire: as Moses in Moses und Aron , as speakers in The Emperor of Atlantis and as Wozzeck . In 1979 he sang the role of Dr. in the Paris premiere of the three-act version of Alban Berg's Lulu , orchestrated by Friedrich Cerha under Pierre Boulez and Patrice Chéreau. Nice.

Engagements

Franz Mazura made his debut in Kassel in 1949 , then sang in Mainz , Braunschweig and at the Nationaltheater Mannheim . In 1960 he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival , 1961 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin , 1971 at the Bayreuth Festival , and in 1973 at the Hamburg State Opera . He also sang at the Bavarian State Opera , the Metropolitan Opera , the Vienna State Opera , at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and at the Paris Opera - including in 1976 in Wagner's Das Rheingold under Georg Solti and Peter Stein .

In addition to Christian Gerhaher as Jean-Charles and Camilla Nylund as La Mort , he played the narrative role of Charon in the oratorio Das Raft der Medusa , which was performed again in the Berlin Philharmonic for the 80th birthday of the composer Hans Werner Henze . Franz Mazura was on stage until 2019:

honors and awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.morgenweb.de/mannheimer-morgen_artikel,-nationaltheater-mensch-faust-preistraegeruniversal-kuenstler-_arid,1591279.html
  2. ↑ berliner-philharmoniker.de: Schedule 2006/2007 ( Memento from June 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on June 1, 2014)
  3. ^ Program booklet of the Lower Saxony State Theater Hannover GmbH, State Opera Hannover, No. 133 (2017)
  4. ↑ Report in Mannheimer Morgen (accessed on March 2, 2015)
  5. ↑ “Der Faust” theater award to singer Franz Mazura. News from September 9, 2015 in the Badische Zeitung, accessed on September 10, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Mazura, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera and concert singer (bass baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 2020
Place of death Mannheim