Herta Glaz

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Herta Glaz , originally: Hertha Glatz ( 16th September 1910 in Vienna - 28. January 2006 in Hamden , Connecticut ) was one of Austria dating American opera singer of the vocal range contralto .

Life

As a little girl, Hertha Glatz first learned to play the piano until her voice was discovered. She took singing lessons from the former court opera singer Rosa Papier at the Vienna Music Academy for four years and later went to the Mozarteum in Salzburg . There she studied Brangäne and Fricka under the guidance of Anna von Mildenburg . She sang in public for the first time when she was not yet 19 - at a concert conducted by Erich Wolfgang Korngold in Bad Ischl . She began her first permanent engagement a little later at the Wroclaw Opera House, at that time directed by Artistic Director Georg Hartmann . She made her debut as Erda in Wagner's Das Rheingold and stayed at this house for two seasons.

Back in Vienna, she sang at Otto Klemperer for the Così fan tutte- project with the Salzburg Opera Guild ago and was accepted as Dorabella. Of course, Klemperer was unexpectedly committed to Los Angeles and Alberto Erede took over the rehearsal. The young troupe, led by Paul Csonka , her husband at the time, presented itself first in Vienna, then in Interlaken and finally in Salzburg during the festival season. In parallel, she was invited to Glyndebourne , Prague , Kiev , Moscow and Amsterdam for operas, concerts and radio recordings. She also appeared in several concerts in Vienna, including the Gurre-Lieder , conducted by Otto Klemperer. At that time she often sang songs by contemporary composers, Berg, Schönberg, Krenek, Bartok, but also Franz Schubert and Gustav Mahler .

At the turn of 1937/38 she toured the United States and Canada with the Salzburg Opera Guild , organized by the impresario Sol Hurok . The last performance was scheduled for March 13, 1938 in New York, the day of the annexation of Austria by Hitler's Germany. She decided to stay in the USA, but had to leave the country to apply for a new residence permit from Cuba. In the fall of 1938 she made her debut at the Chicago Opera as Brangäne. This was followed by engagements in Los Angeles and San Francisco, in 1940 she was able to bring her parents from Great Britain to the USA with one of the last convoys. In 1943 she became a US citizen. At the New York Metropolitan Opera , she appeared on stage in 300 performances between 1942 and 1956, for example as Amneris in Aida , Annina in Rosenkavalier and as Mary in Flying Dutchman . Herta Glaz has taught at the Manhattan School of Music and in New Haven , Connecticut since 1956 . There she founded the New Haven Opera Society .

Herta Glaz was married three times, her first marriage to the conductor Joseph Rosenstock (1895–1985), her second marriage to the composer and conductor Paul Csonka (1905–1995) and, from 1955, her third marriage to Frederick Redlich , a psychology professor of the Yale University . In 1977 she moved to California with her third husband , who was appointed Dean of the University of California, Los Angeles . She taught at the University of Southern California until 1994 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vienna History Wiki : Herta Glaz , accessed on June 15, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Glaz, Herta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Glatz, Hertha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American opera singer
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 2006
Place of death Hamden , Connecticut