Herta Talmar

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Herta Talmar (born July 4, 1920 in Salzburg ; † June 24, 2010 there ) was an Austrian operetta singer (soprano) and actress .

Life

Herta Talmar first appeared on the theater stage at the age of eleven; in the operetta Die Kaiserin by Leo Fall at the Salzburg State Theater . She received her vocal training at the Salzburg Mozarteum . In 1952 she appeared at the Landestheater Salzburg as a guest in the operetta Ballnacht in Florence by Edwin Burmester (music based on motifs by Johann Strauss ); then she was permanently engaged there. From 1952 to 1957 Talmar was a member of the ensemble at the Salzburg State Theater. She appeared there in numerous opera productions, including The gold'ne champion (1953), The Farewell Waltz of Ludwig Schmidseder (1953, with Hubert Marischka as partners), Marietta by Walter Kollo (1953), your last waltz of Oscar Straus (1954 ) and in August 1956 with Johannes Heesters in Franz Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow . From 1957 Talmar worked as a freelancer, gave guest performances and sang mainly for the radio . Her repertoire mainly included the operetta, but also the musical , the folk song , folk Viennese songs and hits .

Talmar became known in particular for her numerous operetta cross-sections, which were created in the 1950s and 1960s and released on records exclusively by Polydor . Almost the entire current operetta repertoire has been recorded, including Wiener Blut , The Begging Student , Gasparone , The Bird Trader , The Merry Widow , The Count of Luxembourg , The Tsarevich , The Land of Smiles , Paganini , The Csárdásfürstin , Countess Mariza , The Circus Princess , The dollar princess , a waltz dream , the cousin from Dingsda , Black Forest girl , Im white horse , season in Salzburg , Victoria and her hussar and the flower of Hawaii . Talmar always sang the soprano part in these recordings, under the musical direction of the operetta conductor Franz Marszalek , with changing tenor partners such as Sándor Kónya , Fritz Wunderlich , Franz Fehringer and Reinhold Bartel ; other performers were often Peter Alexander , Willy Hofmann , Rita Bartos and Renate Holm . In addition, Polydor produced a series of so-called composer pictures in the 1950s . Here Herta Talmar often formed a pair of singers with Herbert Ernst Groh . A cross-section of the musical My Fair Lady was also produced with the Kurt Edelhagen orchestra , in which Talmar only sang Lady Eliza , while the flower girl Eliza was interpreted by cabaret artist and Diseuse Cissy Kraner .

Talmar made numerous complete recordings of operettas and musical comedies on the radio in the 1950s and 1960s , mostly on Westdeutscher Rundfunk with Franz Marszalek. Under the musical direction of Marszalek, complete recordings of operettas such as Der fidele Bauer (1954), Die Försterchristl (1955), Ein Walzertraum (1954), Adrienne (1956), Gasparone (1956) and On the Green Meadow by Jara Beneš (1959) were made. Due to her pleasant speaking voice and her acting talent, Talmar always took on the speaking role of the respective role; In comparable productions, singers and actors were often hired separately. In addition, countless individual titles from operettas have been recorded. There are many rarities among them.

Talmar's radio recordings on Westdeutscher Rundfunk, as far as they have survived, have been largely released on CD in recent years, in some cases on several labels (Line Music, Membrane, Hamburger Archiv für Gesangskunst). In 1958 a recording of Lehár's Die Jolly Widow with Fred Liewehr as Danilo was made at Westdeutscher Rundfunk with Talmar .

In February 1955, the Bayerischer Rundfunk radio recorded the musical comedy Das kleine Café by Robert Stolz , in which Talmar sang alongside Christl Mardayn and Peter Alexander. In July 1955, Talmar, also with Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich , followed a musical potpourri with music from the film Die Deutschmeister ; under the musical direction of Robert Stolz, the tenors Herbert Ernst Groh and Ferry Gruber sang alongside Talmar . At the end of 1955 a recording of the operetta Venus im Grünen by Oscar Straus , in which Waldemar Kmentt was Talmar's tenor partner, was made on the Austrian radio in Vienna .

In the 1960s Talmar took part in some operetta adaptations ( The Empress , The Cousin from Dingda , The Begging Student , Gasparone , Paganini , One Night in Venice ) that were made for television . She lent her voice to actresses Gerlinde Locker , Birgit Bergen and Gardy Granass, among others .

After finishing her singing career in the mid-1960s, Talmar appeared as an actress, including in 1968 at the Munich Volkstheater . Talmar last lived in Salzburg, where she died in June 2010 shortly before her 90th birthday.

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  1. ↑ Lehar's "Funny Widow" turns 100 ORF.at
  2. ↑ Special: Ralph Benatzky ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. German Broadcasting Archive, (p. 27) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dra.de
  3. ↑ Karl Grell: Encounter with Robert Stolz ( Memento of the original from August 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Google Books (excerpts) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.karlgrell.com
personal data
SURNAME Talmar, Herta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Talmar, Hertha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian operetta and opera singer (soprano) and actress
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 2010
Place of death Salzburg