Irmgard Arnold

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Irmgard Arnold (born October 17, 1919 in Horn , today Horn-Bad Meinberg, † January 31, 2014 in Berlin ) was a German opera singer with a soprano voice .

Life

Irmgard Arnold studied singing in Munich with A. Bassani. She made her debut in 1939 at the Bavarian State Theaters in Munich as a letter Christian in the operetta The Bird Trader . Until 1946 she was engaged as a soubrette at the Stadttheater Augsburg , from 1947 to 1949 at the Halle Opera House .

Since 1950 she was in Walter Felsenstein's ensemble at the Komische Oper Berlin one of the most prominent of his singer-actresses and switched from soubrette to that of coloratura soprano (Violetta Valéry in La traviata ) and dramatic soprano. Her stage roles at the Komische Oper included u. a. Musette in La Bohème , Georgette in The Cloak , Aminta in Die Schweigsame Frau , Felice in Die vier Briane von Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari and the operetta roles Diana in Orpheus in der Unterwelt and Gabrielle in Pariser Leben . In the field of contemporary music theater, she took on the role of the woman in the one-act opera The Poor Sailor by Darius Milhaud .

In Felsenstein's production of the opera The Cunning Little Vixen by Leoš Janáček , Irmgard Arnold played and sang the title role (premiered in 1956). As the last leading role at the Komische Oper, she played alongside Rudolf Asmus as Tewje die Golde in Der Fiedler auf dem Dach (premiere in 1971) until the 1980s .

Arnold was also an interpreter of his songs for Hanns Eisler ; a picture in the FF from 1968 shows her and Gerhard Frei together with Hanns Eisler and his brother Gerhard Eisler .

She was the wife of the bassist and chamber singer Gerhard Frei , who worked with her from 1950 to 1954 at the Komische Oper Berlin and from 1954 was committed to the German State Opera Berlin , of which he was a member until 1976.

Irmgard Arnold-Frei was buried on March 11, 2014 in the Rauchfangswerder cemetery , Schmöckwitzer Damm.

theatre

Filmography

Records

literature

  • Ilse Kobàn (eds.), Joachim Herz (foreword): Routine destroys the play or Die Sau has no theater blood: From letters and introductory reports on Felsenstein's work. For the 50th anniversary of the Komische Oper Berlin . Märkischer Verlag, Wilhelmshorst 1997, ISBN 3-931329-13-5 . (Participants: Walter Felsenstein, Ellen von Frankenberg, Augustus Gross, Kurt Horres , Wolfgang Kersten, Edith Maerker, Reinhard Mieke, Harald Engelmann , Ernst Rehm, Carl Riha , Siegfried Tittert, Heinz Wächter)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Commemoration for Kammersängerin Irmgard Arnold. ( Memento of February 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Official website of the Komische Oper Berlin. Retrieved March 28, 2014.
  2. ^ New Germany , October 7, 1957, p. 4
  3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , March 7, 1980, p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Arnold, Irmgard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Horn (lip)
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 2014
Place of death Berlin