Fritzi Jokl

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Fritzi Jokl (born March 23, 1895 in Vienna , † October 15, 1974 in New York ) was an Austro-American opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Fritzi Jokl's vocal training took place with the wife of the piano virtuoso Moriz Rosenthal , Mrs. Rosenthal-Ranner. She received her first engagement in 1917 at the Frankfurt Opera . She stayed there until 1922 and sang many coloratura parts. Fritzi Jokl then moved to the Landestheater Darmstadt (now the Staatstheater Darmstadt ) for one season , and finally sang under the conductor Eugen Szenkar at the Volksoper Berlin (until 1925) and then at the Cologne Opera (until 1926). The success there brought her an engagement at the Salzburg Festival ( she was Despina in 1928 ), a guest engagement at the Covent Garden Opera in London and finally a permanent contract as the first coloratura soprano at the Munich State Opera . Guest appearances at the Vienna State Opera (1930) and in Amsterdam (1932) also prove her prominent position. A planned move to the Kroll Opera House in Berlin in 1932 did not materialize because it was closed, so she returned to the Landestheater Darmstadt, where she was released as a Jew after the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933.

She still had a few appearances at events organized by the Jewish Cultural Association under the conductors Joseph Rosenstock and Hans Wilhelm Steinberg and a tour of France with a traveling stage. Then Fritzi Jokl had to emigrate to the USA via Austria in 1936 .

The Metropolitan Opera in New York declined the singer's engagement because her subject was already occupied by Lily Pons and Bidu Sayão . Fritzi Jokl subsequently ended her career and only appeared in private. She settled in New York and married the author and journalist Jack Siegel there.

In June 2011, a memorial plaque was installed in the foyer of the State Theater in Darmstadt, remembering the Jewish employees who were expelled from the institute, including Fritzi Jokl.

Games (selection)

Frankfurt Opera

  • Rosina in Barber of Seville
  • Urbain in The Huguenots
  • Oscar in A Masked Ball
  • Blondchen in The Abduction from the Seraglio
  • Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier

Berlin Volksoper

  • Konstanze in The Abduction from the Seraglio
  • Norina in Don Pasquale
  • Violetta in La Traviata

State Opera Munich

  • Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos (under the direction of the composer Richard Strauss)
  • Gilda in Rigoletto
  • Nedda in The Bajazzo
  • Olympia in Hoffmann's stories
  • Marcelline in Figaro's wedding
  • Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus

Covent Garden Opera

  • Naiade and Zerbinetta in Ariadne on Naxos
  • Forest bird in Siegfried

Salzburg Festival 1928

  • Despina in Così fan tutte

Berlin Cultural Association

  • Susanna in Figaro
  • Olympia in Hoffmann's stories
  • Micaela in Carmen

More games

  • Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute
  • Susanna in Figaro's wedding
  • Cenerentola in Cinderella or the Triumph of Goodness
  • Galathea in the opera of the same name
  • Inez in Africaine
  • Le Rossignol in the opera of the same name

Discography

  • Living past - Fritzi Jokl . Preiser / Naxos, Vienna 1999
  • Fritzi Jokl Heritáge 1924–1928 . Dante Musikwelt record 1998
  • Four Famous Sopranos of the Past (Schöne, Jokl, Eisinger and Szabo). Preiser / Naxos, Vienna 1998
  • From Munich's opera history , in it: Fritzi Jokl sings Don Pasquale: I too understand fine art . Preiser / Naxos, Vienna 1999
  • ABC of the art of singing, part 6 , in it: Fritzi Jokl sings: Alessandro Stradella: Be silent witnesses to my bliss and The Huguenots: Nobles Seigneurs salut (Your noble gentlemen here) . Cantus-Line (DA Music), Diepholz 2002

literature

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Silent voices. The expulsion of the "Jews" from the opera 1933 to 1945. The fight for the Hessian State Theater in Darmstadt . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2009
  2. ↑ cantabile-subito.de
  3. ↑ echo-online.de (Darmstädter Echo) June 4, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Jokl, Fritzi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-American opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1974
Place of death new York