Hedi Klug
Hedi Klug (born April 18, 1932 in Prague ; † March 2003 ) was a Czech operetta, opera and concert singer ( soprano ).
Life
The soprano worked at the Nuremberg Opera House from 1955 to 1957 . From 1957 to 1961 she was a member of the ensemble of the Städtische Oper Berlin. In 1959 the artist switched to the Theater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich , where she became one of the leading singers in the house. She had her first success as Saffi in the operetta Der Zigeunerbaron . One of her brilliant roles was that of Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus . She was loyal to the Theater am Gärtnerplatz until 1981. There she later sang parts from the lyrical-dramatic opera repertoire, a. a. Pamina in Die Zauberflöte , Marie in Smetana's The Bartered Bride , Antonia in Hoffmann's Tales , Marguerite in Faust by Gounod , Micaëla in Carmen and Lisa in Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades , to name but a few. Klug also sang on the music stages in Cologne, Hamburg, Zurich and Vienna. In 1968 she sang Mariza in Countess Mariza and in 1970 Janka in The Hungarian Wedding at the Mörbisch Sea Festival .
In addition to her stage presence, Klug was a concert singer. As such, she performed in Brussels, Vienna, Copenhagen and the Royal Festival Hall in London, as well as in the major centers of German musical life. At the Bregenz Festival in 1962, she excelled in the world premiere of the operetta Die Trauminsel by Robert Stolz . Two years later, she sang at the Festival of Athens the soprano solo in the 9th Symphony of Beethoven among Keilberth , later in the same game under Robert Heger in Vienna.
Records
- Cross-section through "Hoffmann's Tales" (both in German and in French)
- Amadeo (cross-section through the operetta »Die Trauminsel« by Robert Stolz)
- eurodisc (cross-section through the operetta "Happy Journey" by Eduard Künneke )
literature
- Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . 1997, p. 2411.
Web links
- Hedi Klug in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Hedi Klug at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.rilleegge.ch/shop/pi.php/Rita-Streich-Hanna.html
- ↑ http://www.rilleegge.ch/shop/pi.php/Mattiwilda-Dobbs-Gladys.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Smart, Hedi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech operetta, opera and concert singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 2003 |