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Ida Salden 1903

Ida Salden (* 1878 in Altona ; † 20th century) was a German opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Ida Salden completed her vocal training at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin and with Selma Nicklass-Kempner and began her stage career in 1900 at the Hamburg City Theater , where she remained under contract until 1906. A review from 1903 read, among other things: "The talented young artist sang [...] with warm cordiality [...] We are pleased to note that Miss Salden is both a youthful and dramatic singer , as well as proven so excellently as a soubrette . ”In 1904 she took part in the world premiere of Siegfried Wagner's work The Goblin .

After her time in Hamburg she moved to the Stadttheater Darmstadt and in 1909 to the Düsseldorf Opera House . There, too, she sang at the world premiere of a work, namely as Marga in Henri Alfred Kaiser's Stella maris .

From 1911 to 1913 she worked in Berlin at the Elector's Opera, where she sang as Maliella in Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's I gioielli della Madonna . After her engagement in Berlin, she moved back to Hamburg and made guest appearances from there.

Ida Salden sang Ortlinde in Wagner's Walküre in Bayreuth in 1906, 1908 and 1909 ; she also appeared there as a solo flower in Parsifal and in 1906 as the second squire in the same opera. In 1906 and 1907 she was heard at the Mannheim Court Theater, in 1908 she made a guest appearance at the Court Theater in Karlsruhe , in 1909 at the Frankfurt Opera , in 1910 in Amsterdam and in 1911 in Hanover .

The roles in which she appeared also included Pamina in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Magic Flute , Elisabeth in Tannhäuser , Elsa in Lohengrin , Sieglinde in Walküre , Gutrune in Götterdämmerung , Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly , and Marguerite in Gounods Faust , Martha in Tiefland and Blanchefleur in Wilhelm Kienzl's Kuhreigen .

According to some sources, she may have died in Hamburg in the 1920s. Various sound recordings exist of Ida Salden. Newspaper clippings on Ida Salden can be found in the Hamburg State Archives under the call number 731-8 A 768.

literature

  • Heinrich Hagemann (Ed.): Specialized lexicon of the German stage members . Pallas and Hagemanns Bühnen-Verlag, Berlin 1906, p. 196.
  • KJ Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Unchanged edition. KG Saur, Bern, 1993, third volume, supplementary volume, Sp. 870–871, ISBN 3-907820-70-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to stevemorse.org, an Ida Salomon was born on August 2, 1878 in Altona. Balances could have been a stage name. According to Harald Vieth: FROM HALLERSTRABE 6/8 TO ISEBEK AND DAMMTOR . H. Vieth, 1990, p. 23 ( limited preview in the Google book search) said Ida Salomon was a singer by profession and was deported to Riga on December 6, 1941 . According to Hilde Michael: The life of Hamburg and Altona Jews under the swastika. LIT Verlag Münster, 2009, ISBN 978-3-643-10417-5 , p. 12 ( limited preview in Google book search), Ida Salomon still gave singing lessons to children.
  2. ↑ The writing Ina in Klaus Peter Koch, German musicians in Latvia including southern Livonia , p. 207 ( digitized version ) is probably based on an error.
  3. ^ Rudolf Vierhaus: Poethen - Schlueter. Walter de Gruyter, 2007, ISBN 978-3-110-94025-1 , p. 676 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  4. ↑ Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 1903 Jg070 Bd099  - Internet Archive , 1903, p. 220
  5. ↑ Karl-Josef Kutsch: Large singer lexicon. Walter de Gruyter, 2004, ISBN 978-3-598-44088-5 , p. 5259 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  6. ↑ In the New Theater Almanac for the year 1902  - Internet Archive , the address “Shoulder blade 30 II” is given.
  7. ^ Friedrich von Strantz: Opernführer , 2013, ISBN 978-3-846-02077-7 , p. 421 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  8. ↑ Ashot Arakelyan, Ida Salden (Soprano) (Hamburg, Germany 1878 - Hamburg, Germany between 1920 and 1929) , August 15, 2016 on forgottenoperasingers.blogspot.de
  9. ↑ Ida Salden in the SLUB Dresden catalog on fromLogin = true & fromLogin = true
  10. ^ Ida Salden  in the German Digital Library
personal data
SURNAME Balances, Ida
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH 20th century