Gabrielle Krauss

Marie Gabrielle Krauss (born March 24, 1842 in Vienna ; † January 6, 1906 in Paris ) was an Austrian opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Krauss was a singing student of Mathilde Marchesi . She made her debut at the Vienna Court Opera in 1860 as Gabrielle in Gioachino Rossini's Guillaume Tell and in the following years sang great soprano roles in operas by Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi, Wagner and others. In 1867 she went to the Paris Théâtre-Italy , where she made her debut in Verdi's Il trovatore . During the Franco-Prussian War she went to Italy, where she a. a. at La Scala in Milan and in the premieres of Wagner's Lohengrin and Antônio Carlos Gomes Fosca. In 1873 she returned to the Théâtre-Italy. From 1875 she was engaged at the Paris Opera until she ended her career as a singer in 1887.

In the following year, 1888, she was honored by being appointed Imperial Austrian Chamber Singer .

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Kraus, Gabriele . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 13th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1865, p. 157 ( digitized version ).
Guy de Charnacé: Gabrielle Krauss . (= Les Étoiles du Chant; 3rd line). H. Plon, Paris 1869 (digitized: Gallica ; archive.org ).
Ludwig Eisenberg : Gabrielle Krauss . In: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 545 ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
Antonicek: Krauss Marie Gabriele. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 232.
Marcello Conati: Encounters with Verdi . Cornell University Press, 1986, ISBN 978-0-8014-9430-7 , p. 208 ( preview on Google Books ).
Théophile Gautier : Correspondance générale . Volume 10. Librairie Droz, 1996, ISBN 978-2-600-00134-2 , p. 509 f. ( Preview on Google Books ).
Krauss, Gabrielle . In: Kutsch, Riemens: Großes Sängerlexikon . 3. Edition. Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11598-9 , Volume 3, pp. 1907 f.
Michael Jahn : The Vienna Court Opera from 1848 to 1870. Personnel - performances - program. (= Publications of the Institute for Austrian Music Documentation 27). Tutzing 2002. ISBN 3-7952-1075-5 .
Uwe Harten : Krauss, family. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .
Camille Saint-Saëns : On Music and Musicians . Edited and translated by Roger Nichols. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-971775-0 , p. 134 ( preview on Google Books ).

Web links

Commons : Gabrielle Krauss - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Großes Sängerlexikon , 3rd volume, p. 1908, CD-ROM version (= 3rd expanded edition [1997–2000])

personal data
SURNAME	Krauss, Gabrielle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Krauss, Marie Gabrielle (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH	March 24, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	January 6, 1906
Place of death	Paris

[1] Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Großes Sängerlexikon , 3rd volume, p. 1908, CD-ROM version (= 3rd expanded edition [1997–2000])