Grit van Jutes

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Grit van Jüten (born April 17, 1944 in Hamburg ) is a German opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Grit van Jüten grew up in her native Hamburg. She originally wanted to start studying science, but then completed a vocal training at the Munich University of Music . In addition, she occasionally worked as a model and mannequin at fashion shows. She made her debut in Munich in 1966 at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz as the maid Anna Reich in the romantic opera Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor . In April 1969 she sang Nedda in a new production of the opera Der Bajazzo at the Nuremberg Opera House . From 1970 to 1977 she was engaged as a lyric coloratura soprano and as a lyric soprano at the Nationaltheater Mannheim ; at the same time she had guest contracts with the Bavarian State Opera , the State Theater on Gärtnerplatz and the Nuremberg Opera House . Since 1977 van Jüten has been working as a freelancer and has made extensive guest appearances. She sang at the Stuttgart State Opera , the Deutsche Oper am Rhein , the Vienna Volksoper , the Wiesbaden State Theater , the Frankfurt Opera , the Kassel State Theater and the Essen Opera House . Abroad she performed in Amsterdam and Zurich . In 1977 she appeared as a flower girl in the opera Parsifal at the Lyon Opera House . In 1984 she made guest appearances at the Prague State Opera and the Bratislava State Opera . In 1987 she sang the title role in the opera Margarete in Prague .

Grit van Jüten sang a wide-ranging repertoire, which focused on the lyrical coloratura parts in the operas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail , Queen of the Night and Pamina in The Magic Flute , Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro , Despina in Così fan tutte ), Gaetano Donizetti (title role in Lucia di Lammermoor ), Giuseppe Verdi (Gilda in Rigoletto , title role in La Traviata ), Jacques Offenbach (Olympia in Hoffmann's Stories ), Christoph Willibald Gluck (Eurydice in Orfeo ed Euridice ), Domenico Cimarosa (Carolina in The secret marriage ) and Richard Strauss (Aminta in Die Schweigsame Frau ). Van Jüten also sang operettas on stage , including Adele in Die Fledermaus and Hanna Glawari in The Merry Widow . She also appeared as a concert singer. With the State Philharmonic of Rhineland-Palatinate and the Beethoven Choir Ludwigshafen, she sang Carmina Burana (Ludwigshafen 1979) and Messa da Gloria by Giacomo Puccini (Ludwigshafen 1983).

Grit van Jüten had numerous appearances on German television . She first appeared at the beginning of her career in 1965 in a Christmas program on German television. She was later a guest on the shows Do you recognize the melody? (1972), Magic of Music (ARD 1974), Zum Blauen Bock (1986), in the ARD wish concert with the opening of the ARD television lottery (1986) and One Will Win (January 1983 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ). In 1989 she appeared in the TV show I like to invite friends to the 65th birthday of the entertainer Heinz Schenk ; there she sang a medley with melodies by Franz Grothe with Peter Minich .

Grit van Jüten has been a member of the Deutsche Bühnengenossenschaft (Cooperative of German Stage Members; GDBA) since November 1968 .

Grit van Jüten lived in Dortmund for many years ; meanwhile she lives in Lünen .

Audio documents

There are numerous audio documents from Grit van Jüten. These are recordings of operas and operettas that were mainly published by the EMI record label . Among other things, the complete recordings of Orpheus in the underworld (as Diana) and In the White Horse (as Ottilie) were created.

In 1982 she sang Julia de Weert on the Acanta / Bellaphon label in a complete recording of the operetta The Vetter from Dingsda alongside René Kollo . The Cologne Radio Orchestra played ; The conductor was Heinz Geese . At Bayerischer Rundfunk , a complete radio recording of the operetta The Vetter from Dingda with Grit van Jüten as Julia de Weert, in which Adolf Dallapozza is her tenor partner , was made in 1980 with the Munich Radio Orchestra under the musical direction of Peter Falk .

In 1978 she also sang Marguérite Duménil in a broadcast of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk in a complete recording of the operetta Der Opernball ; her partners were Benno Kusche , Hermann Winkler and Trudeliese Schmidt .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jealousy (performance review); Opernwelt June 1969, p. 39
  2. ↑ Parsifal ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 1976/77 season  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / guschlbauer.com
  3. ↑ Beethovenchor Ludwigshafen ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Concerts since 1924  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.beethovenchor-lu.de
  4. ↑ Grit van Jüten & Peter Minich - Franz Grothe Medley (1989) (YouTube video)
  5. ↑ German Stage Yearbook Hamburg. Published by the Cooperative of German Stage Members - ISSN  0070-4431
  6. ↑ Questionnaire: Grit van Jüten
  7. ↑ The cousin from Dingsda ( Memento of the original from February 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. operone.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.operone.de
  8. ↑ The cousin from Dingsda Capriccio Forum for classical music
  9. ^ Richard Heuberger: The Opera Ball in the Tamino Klassikforum.
personal data
SURNAME Jutten, Grit van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg