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Hildegard Uhrmacher , married Hildegard Kronstein-Uhrmacher , (born December 15, 1939 in Mönchengladbach ) is a German opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Originally a teacher, Hildegard Uhrmacher practiced this profession for three years in Waldniel . At the same time she took singing lessons with Clemens Clettenberg, Peter Witsch and in the studio of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein . There she made her debut in 1964 as Vespina in L'Infedeltà Delusa by Joseph Haydn .

From 1965 to 1967 she was a regular member of the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. From 1967 to 1973 she worked at the Staatstheater Kassel . In 1974 she joined the Hamburg State Opera as the first female coloratura soprano , of which she was a member until 1984.

In addition, she performed at the Munich State Opera from 1970 to 1978 , and she also made guest appearances in Cologne , Dortmund , Nuremberg , Frankfurt am Main , Karlsruhe , the Vienna State Opera , the Nederlands Opera in Amsterdam , the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Welsh Opera in Cardiff .

In 1980 she took part in the title role of the opera Salome at the Weikersheim Castle Festival . From 1981 to 1988 there were guest contracts with the Stuttgart State Opera and from 1981 to 1989 with the Hanover State Theater . In 1991 she could be heard in Bernd Alois Zimmermann's The Soldiers in Hanover and in 1995 as Felice in Wolf-Ferarris I quattro rusteghi . In 1995 she had the role of Hanna Glawari in The Merry Widow at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein .

Her roles included the Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte , Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail , Despina in Così fan tutte , Baronin in Der Wildschütz and Gilda in Rigoletto . Since the mid-1980s she taught as a professor at the Hanover University of Music , and later at the Detmold University of Music .

Uhrmacher was married to the baritone Gotthard Kronstein and has since performed under the name Hildegard Kronstein-Uhrmacher. Under this name she also taught the master classes of the International Music Academy for Soloists (IMAS).

In 2006 her autobiography Hilde, you can do it, was published .

literature

  • Hildegard Kronstein watchmaker: Hilde, you can do it , Hanover: Leuenhagen and Paris, 2006, ISBN 3-923976-55-0
  • Uhrmacher, Hildegard , in: Kutsch / Riemens: Großes Sängerlexikon . 3. Edition. Saur, Munich 1997. Vol. 5, pp. 3542 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compare this information from the German National Library
  2. ↑ Boris Kuznetsov (coordinator, organization): International Music Academy for Soloists , Booklet [o. D.], on the imas-meisterkurse.de page , downloadable as a PDF document , last accessed on January 12, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Watchmaker, Hildegard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kronstein watchmaker, Hildegard (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Mönchengladbach