Giorgio Stigelli

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Woodcut by Giorgio Stigelli (1819–1868), around 1852

Giorgio Stigelli , also Giorgio Stighelli , actually Georg Stiegele , (born April 20, 1819 in Ingstetten , town of Schelklingen ; † July 13, 1868 in his Villa Boschetto near Monza , Northern Italy) was a German opera singer (tenor) and composer who was an active Completed an international acting career from the early 1840s to the late 1860s. During his career he used a number of stage names, of which Giorgio Stigelli (or Stighelli) became the most common pseudonym.

Life

Giorgio Stigelli was born in the small village of Ingstetten, which is now part of the town of Schelklingen in the state of Baden-Württemberg in the Alb-Danube district. He was baptized in the name of Johann " Georg Stiegele". He was the youngest son of the farmer and sun host Andreas Stiegele (1771–1847) and the Genovefa Hartmann (1776–1858). His father's property also included a brewery, which delivered the “Sonnenbier” to the neighboring villages for 15 axle customers, and a large farm of 70 acres: Stiegele grew up in comfortable financial circumstances. Stiegele first studied law before taking singing lessons in Stuttgart with Sebastian Binder, Franz Jäger and Johann Baptist Krebs . He made his professional opera debut in 1840 at the Stadttheater Bern under the name Georg Stiegele in the role of Belmonte in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail . In the same year he appeared at the Hessian State Theater Wiesbaden and at the Opera House in Linz.

From 1841 to 1842 he sang at the Vienna State Opera and from 1842 to 1843 he worked at the Deutsches Theater Budapest. He sang at the Hoftheater Hannover from 1843 to 1844. In 1842 he appeared as a guest artist at the Prague State Opera , 1843 at the State Theater Stuttgart , 1843 at the Graz Opera , and from 1843 to 1845 at the Berlin State Opera .

1845–1846 Stigelli interrupted his career to take up further studies with the famous tenor and teacher Louis Antoine Ponchard in Paris and with Michewouk in Milan. In the years 1846–1847 he appeared in successful performances at the Teatro Carcano in Milan and at the opera houses in Mantua, Padua and Lodi. It was precisely at this time that he took the stage name Giorgio Stig (h) elli, with which he was primarily to be associated.

After major revolutionary unrest broke out in Italy on January 5, 1848, Stigelli left Italy and settled as a singer and teacher in Frankfurt a. M. down. 1849-1850 he performed very successfully as a member of the Royal Opera House in London, to which he often returned as a guest artist in the years to come. In 1861 he traveled to Vienna to take on the applauded role of Pollione in Bellini's Norma . He spent his later career primarily in Italy, where he performed at houses such as the Teatro Regio di Parma , the Teatro Comunale di Bologna , and the Teatro di San Carlo until his death in 1868. In particular, he played and sang at the latter opera house in several world premieres, including Paolo Serrao's La duchessa di Guisa (1865), Saverio Mercadantes Virginia (1866), and Giovanni Pacini's Berta di Varnol (1867).

Biography of Giorgio Stigelli (1819–1868) in the "Illustrirte (n) Zeitung" (Leipzig) 1852

Stigelli mainly focused on the Italian and German repertoire. Its main roles include: Alamir in Gaetano Donizetti's Belisario , Arnoldo in Gioachino Rossini's Guillaume Tell , Arturo in Bellini's I Puritani , Eleazar in Jacques Fromental Halévy's La Juive , Elvino in Bellini's La sonnambula , Gomez Conradin Kreutzer The camp in Granada , Licinio in Gaspare Spontini's La vestale , Max in Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz , Orombello in Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda , Pollione, Tamino in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte , Tebaldo in Bellini's I Capuleti ei Montecchi , and the title role in Gioachino Rossini's Otello .

Stigelli was a gifted composer who primarily wrote vocal music. He composed a number of choral works and art songs for voice and piano. He mainly created two successful song cycles based on poems by Heinrich Heine and Ludwig Uhland .

Biography of Giorgio Stigelli (1819–1868) by George Grove 1883

literature

  • Czartoryski, Prince (ed.) (1861), reviews and communications on theater and music (edited by Prince Czartoryski). VII. Year, p. 617. Vienna: Wallishausser (criticism).
  • Gaus, Kaspar, retired mayor (1980), genealogy . Schelklingen-Ingstetten: Typescript (copy in the Schelklingen City Archives) (including about the "Stiegele" family).
  • Grove, George (1883), article "Stigelli, or Stighelli, Georg". In: George Grove, ed., A Dictionary of Music and Musicians: (AD 1450-1883) by Eminent Writers, English and Foreign . Vol. 3, pp. 714-715. London: Macmillan.
  • Illustrirte Zeitung (Leipzig: JJ Weber), Volume XVIII, April 10, 1852, No. 458, p. 236 (biography, woodcut and sheet music for the song "The most beautiful place", setting by Stigelli of a poem by Dr. Keferstein).
  • Waldstein, Max (1876), Theater Stories . Vienna, Pest, Leipzig: A. Hartleben, p. 216f. (Criticism)
  • Constantin von Wurzbach : Stigelli, Georg . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 39th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1879, pp. 41–43 ( digitized version ). (Biography)

Web links

Wikisource: You have diamonds and pearls from Heinrich Heine's “Book of Songs” from 1827  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Giorgio Stigelli at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
  2. ^ "Giorgio Stigelli". In: L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia ..
personal data
SURNAME Stigelli, Giorgio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stighelli, Giorgio; Stiegele, Georg (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (tenor) and composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Ingstetten , town of Schelklingen
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1868
Place of death Villa Boschetto, Monza , Northern Italy