Heinz Imdahl

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Heinz Imdahl (born August 9, 1924 in Düsseldorf ; † March 21, 2012 in Munich ) was a German opera singer with a baritone voice .

Life

Imdahl was born in Düsseldorf. His parents ran a well-known butcher's shop in Düsseldorf . After graduating from school, Imdahl first completed an apprenticeship as a butcher . Imdahl then studied singing privately for over seven years with the well-known singing teacher Kammersänger Berthold Pütz in Krefeld . After the Second World War , further studies at the Cologne University of Music followed . He made his debut as an opera singer in 1948, under the direction of Gustaf Gründgens , at the Düsseldorf Opera House as Sergeant Moralès in Carmen . At the beginning of his career he sang the lyric baritone class. He had permanent engagements at the Düsseldorf Opera House (1948–1951; again from 1955 to 1962), at the Munich State Opera (season 1951/1952), at the Bremen City Theater (1952–1955 as “first character baritone”; inaugural role Rigoletto ), at the State Opera Berlin (1955/1956 season) and again at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich (1959–1988). There he was appointed Bavarian Chamber Singer .

He had a permanent guest contract at the Nuremberg Opera House (1958–1970). There he sang Jochanaan in Salome , Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1963; conductor: Hans Gierster ) and Jago in Otello .

Imdahl sang several times at the Zurich Opera House (1955 as Amonasro in Aida ; season 1957/1958 as Count Luna in Der Troubadour , Pizarro in Fidelio and Scarpia in Tosca ). Between 1961 and 1970 he appeared regularly at the Vienna State Opera ; He made his debut there as Olivier in Capriccio in January 1961. At the Vienna State Opera he sang, among others, Pizarro in Fidelio , the speaker in The Magic Flute and the music teacher in Ariadne auf Naxos ; in particular he interpreted the great heroic roles in Wagner's subject: the title role in Der Fliegende Holländer (1966), Friedrich von Telramund in Lohengrin (1966–1970), Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde (1964–1967), Hans Sachs (1964 / 1965), Wotan in Die Walküre (1969) and Amfortas in Parsifal (1968). He also sang as a guest at the Frankfurt Opera House (1967) and at the Hamburg State Opera (1970, as a Dutchman).

In Italy he performed at the Teatro Comunale in Florence (1953, as Wolfram in Tannhäuser ), at the Rome Opera (1958, as speaker; 1970, as Pizarro), at the Teatro Regio in Turin (1967, as Telramund; 1971, as Kurwenal; 1972, as Wanderer in Siegfried ), at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna (1966 and 1968 as Wotan / Wanderer), at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples (1970, as Jochanaan; 1972, as Wotan; 1974 as Wanderer) and at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste (1975, as Faninal in Der Rosenkavalier ).

Imdahl made guest appearances in other European countries at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels (1964), at the Opéra de Lausanne (1965, as Kurwenal), at the Opéra National de Lyon (1966, as Kurwenal), at the Covent Garden Opera ( 1972, as a music teacher; guest performance at the Bavarian State Opera) and at the Oslo Opera House (1978).

He made international guest appearances overseas at the Opera House in Rio de Janeiro (1954), at the Opera House in Philadelphia (1970, as Hans Sachs) and at the Opera of Santiago de Chile (1978, as Dutch).

Private

In 1961 Imdahl and his wife Johanna († 1999) took over the Chiemgauhof restaurant and hotel in Übersee am Chiemsee. Since 1999 the Chiemgauhof has been run by one of Imdahl's two sons. Imdahl died on March 21, 2012 at the age of 87 in Munich. He was buried on March 27, 2012 in Übersee am Chiemsee.

repertoire

Imdahl sang a very extensive repertoire on the opera stage. In addition to roles in the German role (narrator, Pizarro, Kaspar in Der Freischütz , Jochannan, Orest in Elektra , music teacher), it also included roles in Italian (title role in Rigoletto , Amonasro, Jago in Otello , title role in Falstaff , Scarpia, Alfio in Cavalleria rusticana ), the French subject (Nelusco in Die Afrikanerin ) and the Russian subject (title role in Eugene Onegin ). He mainly took on the roles of hero baritone and character baritone in the operas of Giuseppe Verdi , Giacomo Puccini and preferably Richard Wagner . Imdahl was therefore considered an excellent Wagner singer both at home and abroad.

Audio documents

The voice of Heinz Imdahl is only recorded in very few audio documents. There are two complete opera recordings: a radio recording of the opera Das Liebesverbot , made by ORF in 1963 ; Imdahl sings the role of the governor Friedrich. In addition, a studio recording of the opera Lohengrin from August 1968, under the musical direction of Hans Swarowsky , with Imdahl as Telramund.

There are also a few live and private recordings from Imdahl's time in Düsseldorf: Rigoletto (with Anneliese Rothenberger , Hans Hopf and Walter Kreppel ), Macbeth (1957, with Astrid Varnay as Lady Macbeth) and Falstaff (conductor: Alberto Erede ).

In addition, a live recording of the opera Palestrina from the Bavarian State Opera from 1963 was released on CD . Imdahl sings the role of legate Giovanni Morone under the musical direction of Joseph Keilberth .

theatre

Honors

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kammersänger Heinz Imdahl obituary notice
  2. ↑ a b Lanker career: From butcher to opera star in: Neuss-Grevenbroicher Zeitung of May 24, 2000
  3. ^ Index of roles by Heinz Imdahl in: Chronik der Wiener Staatsoper 1945-2005 , pp. 486/487. Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2006. ISBN 3-85409-449-3
  4. ↑ a b Chiemgauhof history
personal data
SURNAME Imdahl, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 2012
Place of death Munich