Ira Malaniuk

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Ira Malaniuk (born January 29, 1919 in Stanislau , † February 25, 2009 in Zirl ) was an Austrian opera singer ( alto ). Internationally, she achieved a high reputation , especially as a Wagner singer .

Life

Ira Malaniuk grew up in Stanislau, Ukraine . Her father was a doctor there , a high kuk officer and largely related to the lawyer Wilhelm Malaniuk ; Ira Malaniuk was the godmother of his grandson Michael Malaniuk. She studied first in Lwów with Adam Didur and later in Vienna with the well-known singing teacher Anna Bahr-Mildenburg . In 1944 she took part in the summer academy of the Reichshochschule Mozarteum in Salzburg.

In 1945 she made her debut at the Graz City Theater as Ulrica in Verdi's A Masked Ball . In 1947 she came to the City Theater of Zurich , where she a. a. 1949 in the world premiere of the opera Die Schwarze Spinne by Willy Burkhard and in 1951 in the German premiere of Igor Stravinski's The Rake's Progress . 1956–1972 she was a member of the Vienna State Opera . 1952–1967 she was also a member of the Munich State Opera and 1956–1958 also a member of the Stuttgart State Opera . From 1968 to 1977 she had one last permanent engagement at the Vienna Volksoper . There she took on character roles in opera and operetta.

At the Vienna State Opera she sang the major roles in her field ( Eboli in Don Carlos , Brangäne in Tristan and Isolde ), but also took on many smaller roles (e.g. Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro ), which she almost achieved with her acting talent made leading roles.

At the Bayreuth Festival in 1951/1952 she sang Magdalene in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and spontaneously took over Fricka in Das Rheingold for the sick Elisabeth Höngen within a few hours without rehearsal . Other roles in Bayreuth were 1952/1953 the Brangäne and Fricka , 1951 Grimgerde in The Valkyrie , 1951 and 1953, the second Norn and Waltraute in Götterdämmerung .

From 1956 to 1966 she appeared at the Salzburg Festival mainly as a concert and oratorio singer. In 1958 she sang Adelaide in Arabella by Richard Strauss there .

After completing her career, she worked as a singing teacher. In 1971 she received a professorship for song interpretation at the Graz University of Music , later University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (KUG). A sponsorship award for young talents bears her name, as does a concert hall in the former Grazer Reiterkaserne, which has housed the KUG Institute for Singing, Song and Oratorio since 2010.

Ira Malaniuk was buried on March 3, 2009 in the local cemetery in Zirl .

literature

Sound documents (selection)

  • Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (Marcellina)
  • Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito (Sesto)
  • Strauss: Arabella (Adelaide)
  • Wagner: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (Magdalene)
  • Wagner: Tristan and Isolde (Brangäne)
  • Wagner: The Ring of the Nibelung (Fricka)
  • Several operatic cross-sections on Polydor under Franz Marszalek

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personal data
SURNAME Malaniuk, Ira
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian opera singer (alto)
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Stanislau
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 2009
Place of death Zirl