Hanna Ludwig

Hanna Ludwig (born January 10, 1918 in Lauterach ; † March 11, 2014 in Salzburg ) was a German opera and concert singer ( alto , mezzo-soprano ) and vocal teacher.

Life

Ludwig received singing lessons from Luise Willer and Rudolf Hartmann in Munich , as well as from Franziska Martienssen-Lohmann. In 1949 she made her debut at the Koblenz Theater . From 1951 to 1952 she worked at the Stadttheater Freiburg .

From 1951 to 1952 she sang Wellgunde in The Ring of the Nibelung and a Flower Girl and a Knappen in Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival , and in 1951 Roßweiße and 1952 Waltraute in Die Walküre .

Her next stop was the Deutsche Oper am Rhein , where she was engaged from 1952 to 1959. In 1955 she made a guest appearance at La Scala in Milan as Waltraute in Die Walküre and in 1956 as Page in Salome . From 1956 to 1962 she gave guest performances at the Vienna State Opera , among others as Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier , as composer in Ariadne auf Naxos and as Jocasta in Oedipus Rex . Further guest appearances have taken her to the Teatro San Carlo in Naples (1952), to the Teatro La Fenice in Venice , to Amsterdam , Zurich (1955 as Clairon in Capriccio ), Barcelona , Dublin and Geneva . In 1958 she made a guest appearance in Ariadne on Naxos at the Holland Festival .

From 1959 to 1968 she was part of the ensemble of the Cologne Opera . On November 23, 1959, she was represented there in the world premiere of the opera The Death of Grigory Rasputin by Nicolas Nabokov . She has made guest appearances at the Washington Opera and the Teatro Verdi in Trieste (both in 1960).

In 1963 she sang the alto solo in Mozart's Requiem at the Salzburg Festival . Further roles in Ludwig's repertoire were Dorabella in Così fan tutte , Orpheus in Orfeo ed Euridice , Cherubino in Figaros Hochzeit , Ortrud in Lohengrin , Fricka in Der Ring des Nibelungen , Brangäne in Tristan and Isolde , Kundry in Parsifal , Clairon in Capriccio , Baroness Grünwiesel in The Young Lord , Eboli in Don Carlos , the title character in Carmen and Nicklausse in Hoffmann's stories .

As a lieder singer, she toured North and South America, Japan and parts of Asia. In 1968 she said goodbye to the stage. She now taught at the Ankara University of Music and then at the Mozarteum in Salzburg , where she initially worked as a lecturer and from 1971 to 1983 as a professor. In 1987 she was still on vocal pedagogy courses in Manila and Hong Kong . Diana Damrau was one of her students.

In her honor, the Hanna Ludwig Prize was donated to her in 1998 on the occasion of the award of the Golden Medal of Honor by the Mozarteum University.

Web links

• Sound carrier by Hanna Ludwig in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hanna Ludwig at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
• Hanna Ludwig, the grande dame of the art of singing, has died. In: Epoch Times of March 14, 2014