Hans Basil

Hans Basil , actually Hans Meyer ( May 19, 1872 near Halberstadt - after 1914) was a German theater actor and opera singer ( baritone ).

Life

After Basil, the son of a pastor, discovered beautiful vocal materials in him, he immediately started his training in order to devote himself to his singing career. Singing masters Richard Schulz-Dornburg and Benno Stolzenberg became his teachers and in 1895 he was able to make his debut as "Wolfram" in the Stadttheater am Brausenwerth in Elberfeld.

In 1896 he came to Halle (inaugural role "Telramund"), in 1897 to the court theater in Wiesbaden (inaugural role "Wolfram" and "Nevers"), 1898 to Darmstadt (inaugural role "Wotan"), then in 1899 to Stettin, from where he submitted an application in 1900 the Stadttheater Zürich complies (inaugural role "Dutchman"). He stayed there until 1905, from 1905 to 1908 he worked in Mannheim, from 1908 to 1911 at the Stadttheater Aachen and from 1911 to 1913 at the Hoftheater Schwerin , where he also appeared as an actor and finally left the stage in 1914. He made guest appearances at the court theaters of Stuttgart (1901, 1907 to 1908), Hanover (1907) and Munich (1907 to 1908) as well as at the opera houses in Frankfurt am Main (1906) and Cologne (1909).

The time and place of his death is unknown.

Basil had a beautiful baritone voice of great power and brilliant timbre and a pronunciation that made the textbook almost superfluous. All of his performances in both vocal and representational relationships were characterized by sharp characterization and his phrasing and musical sensitivity must be particularly emphasized. Above all else he was an excellent Wagner singer, but he also offered an excellent performance with his “Falstaff”. His roles include "Nelusko", "Pizarro", "Petruchio", "Escamillo", "Don Juan", "Almaviva" etc.

His older brother was the actor Friedrich Basil .

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 52, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

• Hans Basil in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
• Hans Basil at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon

This article is based on a public domain text from Ludwig Eisenberg's Large Biographical Lexicon of the German Stage in the 19th Century , 1903 edition.

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