Franz Xaver Battisti
Franz Xaver Battisti ( December 21, 1865 in Bolzano , Tyrol - after 1925 ) was an Austrian opera singer ( tenor ) and vocal teacher .
Life
Battisti, born in Bozen on Gummergasse as the son of a businessman, studied chemistry at the Graz University of Technology, where he was encouraged to have his tenor voice trained for the stage. He went to Vienna, where he took singing lessons from Viktor von Rokitansky (1889 to 1893), but continued his studies at the university there until, encouraged by the progressive successes, he decided to give up his studies entirely and devote himself to the stage career .
His stage debut was on October 12, 1893 as Lyonel in Friedrich von Flotow's opera Martha at the Stadttheater in Trier. In 1904 he sang in the Stadttheater Zürich , in the season 1895/96 in Düsseldorf, 1896/97 in the Stadttheater Bremen , again the Lyonel and the Radames in Aida , and in 1897/98 in the Theater des Westens in Berlin. He then went to Milan, where he completed his vocal training with Albert Selva .
In 1900 he was committed to the court theater in Hanover , where he remained until 1914.
Guest appearances brought him to the Berlin court opera, to the court theaters of Kassel and Braunschweig, to the opera houses of Frankfurt am Main, Leipzig and Cologne. He was also valued as a concert singer.
In 1909 he took in Hanover several records for the label His Master's Voice of Deutsche Grammophon on, including arias from The Tales of Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach , the flowers aria from Bizet's Carmen and duets with Marga Burchardt from the Opera Lowlands by Eugen d'Albert and the Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner . The latter recording can be heard on the 2006 CD So much of the heroes: Wagner tenors from the Imperial Era (1871-1918) .
After leaving the stage in 1914, he worked as a singing teacher in Hanover until 1925. In 1924, "the celebrated former lyric tenor of the former Hanover Court Opera" celebrated his 60th birthday, reported the specialist journal Die Seele .
The time and place of death are unknown.
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 55, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Franz Xaver Battisti at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- Franz Xaver Battisti (tenor) (Bolzano, Italy 1865 -?) , Forgotten Opera Singers, August 1, 2013
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Xaver Battisti portrait of Hedwig Greve at the auction house Dr. Richter and Dr. Kavitz
- ^ A b Franz Xaver Battisti (tenor) (Bolzano, Italy 1865 -?) , Forgotten Opera Singers, August 1, 2013
- ^ Franz Xaver Battisti at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- ↑ So Much of Heroes: Wagner Tenors of the Imperial Era (1871-1918) , Preiser Mono Studio Rec. 1907-32, 2006. CD for the book by Einhard Luther: Biography of a Voice 3. So Much of Heroes: Wagner Tenors of the Imperial Era (1871-1918 ) , Pro Business, Berlin 2006, ISBN 9783939000365
- ↑ Jonathan Woolf: Richard WAGNER (1813-1883) So much of the heroes - Wagnerian tenors in the era of Kaiser Wilhelm II (1871-1918) , MusicWeb International
- ^ The voice: Centralblatt for vocal and tone formation, singing lessons and vocal hygiene , Volume 19, 1924, p. 139
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Battisti, Franz Xaver |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian opera singer (tenor) and singing teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bolzano , Tyrol |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1925 |