Hans Hermann Nissen

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Hans Hermann Nissen (born May 20, 1893 in Zippnow , West Prussia , † March 29, 1980 in Munich ) was a German opera singer with a baritone voice .

Life

Hans Hermann Nissen initially trained as a businessman, but from 1916 he studied singing in Berlin with Julius von Raatz-Brockmann and later in England with Manuel Garcia. From 1920 Nissen worked as a singer, initially exclusively as a concert singer . His debut as an opera singer took place in 1924 at the Great Volksoper in Berlin with the role of the caliph in the opera The Barber of Baghdad by Peter Cornelius .

In 1925 Nissen was signed to the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, of which he remained a permanent member of the ensemble until 1967. In 1967 he said goodbye to his Munich audience with the role of Don Fernando in Ludwig van Beethoven's opera Fidelio .

1930 Nissen sang at the Salzburg Festival in the Count Almaviva and 1936-1937 the role of Hans Sachs in Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg under the baton of Arturo Toscanini . In 1943 he sang Hans Sachs at the Bayreuth Festival . From 1938 to 1942 he appeared annually at the festival in the forest opera Sopot . There he sang Telramund in Lohengrin and Wotan / Wanderer in Der Ring des Nibelungen .

He made guest appearances at the Covent Garden Opera in London (1928 as Wotan and Hans Sachs, 1934 as Wotan), at the Grand Opéra in Paris (debut in 1930 as Kurwenal) and at the Metropolitan Opera in New York (1938–1939 as Telramund and Wolfram ).

He gave further guest performances from 1930–1932 at the Lyric Opera in Chicago , from 1936–1938 at La Scala in Milan and at the Vienna State Opera . In 1940 he was at the premiere of the cantata German Resurrection in the Wiener Musikverein . A festive song by Franz Schmidt is involved.

In 1950 and 1951 Nissen also sang regularly at the Vienna State Opera . There he sang a total of 10 different roles, including Telramund, Hans Sachs, Wolfram in Tannhäuser , Kurwenal in Tristan and Isolde , but also roles from the German and Italian repertoire, such as the narrator in Die Zauberflöte and Amonasro in Aida . In 1959 he was heard again at the Vienna State Opera, as a music teacher in Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss and as Teiresias in Oedipus Rex by Igor Stravinsky .

In addition to the Wagner roles, his repertoire also included great character roles such as Orestes in Elektra , Barak in Die Frau ohne Schatten and Cardinal Carlo Borromeo in Palestrina .

Nissen continued to be artistically active as a singing teacher until shortly before his death. He was a professor at the Munich University of Music .

The musical oeuvre of Hans Hermann Nissen, passed down through radio recordings, live recordings and records, has been partially re-released on CD in recent years.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sabine Toepffer: Singer of the Bavarian State Opera 1949–1983 , photo no. 161. Wolfgang Bruns Verlag. Munich 1983. ISBN 3-924046-00-X
  2. ↑ Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Homepage of the Salzburg Festival, archive 1936 (with photo of the final scene)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.salzburgerfestspiele.at  
  3. ↑ List of roles by Hans Hermann Nissen in: Chronik der Wiener Staatsoper 1945-1995 , Verlag Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna and Munich 1995, p. 532. ISBN 3-7031-0698-0
  4. ↑ Hans Hermann Nissen Biography Short biography of Harold Rosenthal / Alan Blyth
personal data
SURNAME Nissen, Hans Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Zippnow , West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1980
Place of death Munich