Hilde Konetzni

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Hilde Konetzni (born March 21, 1905 in Vienna ; † April 20, 1980 there ; actually Hilde Koneczny ) was an Austrian opera singer ( lyrical - dramatic soprano ).

Life

Hilde Konetzni was discovered by her sister Anny Konetzni , who was also a singer. After her training at the New Vienna Conservatory with Rudolf Nilius a . a. She made her debut at the Chemnitz City Theater in 1929 as Sieglinde in Die Walküre , while her sister Anny sang the role of Brünnhilde. In Prague she continued her studies with Ludmilla Prohaska-Neumann .

In the 1931/32 season she was engaged at the city theater of Gablonz and in 1932 went to the German Theater in Prague , where she stayed until 1935 and took on opera roles in the youth dramatic field and the dramatic soprano field. She celebrated success with the roles of Leonore ( The Troubadour ) and Agathe ( Der Freischütz ). In 1936 she sang the title role in the German-language premiere of Janáček's Katja Kabanowa .

In 1936 she was committed to the Vienna State Opera , of which she was a permanent member of the ensemble until 1959, when her engagement was terminated by opera director Karl Böhm . After that she was again a member of the Haus am Ring from 1963 to 1973. Here she made her debut as Elisabeth im Tannhäuser . Together with her sister Anny Konetzni she was one of the leaders of the State Opera ensemble.

Konetzni appeared at the Salzburg Festival in 1936, 1939 and 1941, where she sang Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni , 1937 Chrysothemis in Elektra , 1938 Leonore in Fidelio and Elisabeth in Tannhäuser and in 1939 Agathe im Freischütz . The Marschallin in Rosenkavalier was one of her special brilliant roles , which she played from 1937 to 1939 and again in 1946 and which she embodied in 40 performances at the Vienna Opera between 1947 and 1960.

On August 16, 1961, she played a small role in the world premiere of the opera Das Bergwerk zu Falun by Rudolf Wagner-Régeny . In 1940 she sang at the Hamburg State Opera in the German premiere of Fried Walter's Queen Elisabeth . In 1938 she appeared at the Glyndebourne Festival as Donna Elvira; she was at the Milan Scala (1950 as Sieglinde and as Gutrune in the Ring cycle under Wilhelm Furtwängler ; 1951 in Fürst Igor von Borodin ), at the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires and at the London Covent Garden Opera , where she was in 1938 as Inaugural role sang Chrysothemis in Elektra and from 1938–39, 1947 with the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera and again in 1955 as Sieglinde and Gutrune in the Ring des Nibelungen . She received great attention in London in 1938 when she took on the role of Marschallin for Lotte Lehmann , who suddenly fell ill, during a performance of the Rosenkavalier .

In 1937 and 1939 she undertook concert tours through North America with Marta Krasová, Henk Noort, Joel Berglund and Alexander Kipnis . On July 22, 1946, she sang the title role in the world premiere of Heinrich Sutermeister's opera Niobe at the Zurich Opera House .

Like many others, Konetzni also made himself available to National Socialist propaganda in 1938 after the annexation of Austria in order to call the Viennese artists to vote for a “ referendum ”.

Konetzni has made guest appearances at the Grand opéra Paris (1936 as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni , 1943 as Sieglinde, 1949 as Marschallin), at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires (1949), at the Théâtre de la Monnaie Brussels (1950 and 1951) the Antwerp Opera (1938), to the Zurich Opera House (1938) and to Amsterdam (1937 title role in Euryanthe von Weber).

In addition to the roles mentioned above, her extensive stage repertoire also included the Countess in Figaro's Wedding , Senta in The Flying Dutchman , Elsa in Lohengrin , the title role in Schumann's Genoveva . the Rezia in Oberon von Weber, in the Verdi operas the Elisabetta in Don Carlos , the Amelia in the masked ball and the Desdemona in Othello , the Margarete in Faust by Gounod, the Giulietta in Hoffmann's stories , the Marie in the Bartered Bride , the Rosalinde in the bat and the Saffi in the gypsy baron .

Towards the end of her career, thanks to her acting talent, Konetzni took on various character roles such as Mary in Fliegende Holländer , Mother Goose in The Rake's Progress by Stravinsky, Kathinka in the Bartered Bride , Principessa in Suor Angelica by Puccini, the cloakroom in Lulu by Berg and the wife of the village judge in Jenůfa von Janáček. With Filipjewna in Eugene Onegin , she said goodbye to the stage in Vienna.

Hilde Konetzni was buried in an honorary grave of the City of Vienna in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 32C, No. 45).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Viennese artists on April 10th. In:  Neues Wiener Journal , April 7, 1938, p. 13 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwj
  2. ^ Inscription Deutschordenshof, passage: Hilde Konetzni 1968 (accessed June 7, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Konetzni, Hilde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koneczny, Hilde (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian opera singer (lyrical-dramatic soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1980
Place of death Vienna