Hans van Heerden

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Hans van Heerden , also von Heerden , (born November 23, 1935 in Pretoria , South Africa ) is a South African opera singer (baritone).

Life

With the help of a scholarship arranged by the soprano Mimi Coertse , Hans van Heerden studied singing at the Vienna University of Music with the well-known tenor and singing teacher Josef Witt . After winning several prizes at the Vienna International Singing Competition , he began his career as an opera singer in Europe . During his training he received a guest contract for the role of Jago in Otello at the Stadttheater Ulm . This was later followed by permanent engagements at the Bonn Opera and at the Wiesbaden State Theater in the 1960s . At the opening of the 1966/1967 season he sang Iago at the Wiesbaden State Theater alongside Hermin Esser (Othello); van Heerden designed his role as "vocal and gestural-mimic powerful, at times almost wonderfully brutal." In the 1968/69 season he was committed to the Frankfurt Opera as a permanent member of the ensemble .

Van Heerden's repertoire mainly comprised the roles of the youthful hero baritone and the character baritone. He sang Iago , alongside Mario del Monaco , the title role in Rigoletto (partners as Gilda were Ileana Cotrubaș and Edda Moser , among others ), Amonasro in Aida with Martina Arroyo , the police chief Scarpia in Tosca , the title role in Nabucco , the Sebastiano in Tiefland with Rudolf Schock , the Mandryka in Arabella at the side of Lisa della Casa and Anneliese Rothenberger (Zdenka) and the Rodrigo in Don Carlos together with Kim Borg (as Philipp).

He kicked u. a. in the TV show " One will win " recorded on March 12, 1966 as a guest together with Elwira Scholz .

Van Heerden was the first artist to be awarded the Nederburg Prize for Opera des Orange Free State in 1973 and is the only artist to have received this prize seven times to date. From 1978 to 1990 he was artistic director of the SUKOVS opera department of the Orange Free State. From 1992 to 1995 he was director of the opera school at the Technikon in Pretoria ( Pretoria Technikon ).

literature

  • Jacques P. Malan (Ed.): South African Music Encyclopedia. 4 volumes, Oxford University Press, Cape Town 1979–1986.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Solid prelude (Opernwelt review November 1966, p. 52/53)
  2. ↑ Premieres and new engagements  ( 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. Frankfurter Rundschau ; February 26, 1968@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / original Ausgabe.fr-online.de  
  3. ↑ One will win
  4. ↑ Phillida Brooke Simons, Alain Proust: Nederburg. The first two hundred years , 1992, pages 185/189 ( excerpt )
personal data
SURNAME Heerden, Hans van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heerden, Hans von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African opera singer (baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Pretoria , South Africa