Jayne Casselman

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Jayne Casselman (born December 8, 1955 in Kansas City , † February 3, 2016 in Phoenix ) was an American opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Casselman was born the daughter of a church choir conductor . The singer graduated from the University of Kansas as a mezzo-soprano and devoted herself to vocal training with the music teacher Inci Bashar.

In 1984 she started teaching at a musical school in Hamburg and in the same year began her career as a singer in Germany at the Pfalztheater in Kaiserslautern . She belonged to the ensemble of this house until 1993. Engagements have taken her to numerous European opera houses as well as Philadelphia and Mexico City .

Since switching to the soprano, Casselman has mainly taken on roles in the dramatic repertoire, specializing in Wagner and Strauss . The title role in Elektra was just as much a part of her repertoire as Isolde in Tristan und Isolde or Brünnhilde in the Ring of the Nibelung . In the mezzo-soprano section, Casselman appeared as Kundry in Parsifal and Venus in Tannhauser and the singer's war in Wartburg .

The artist lived in Germany, also devoted herself to the further training of young artists and set up the Huthmacher cultural center in Dierbach for this purpose . When Casselman fell ill with ALS and the disease increasingly restricted her, she returned to her homeland, where she died in February 2016 at the age of 55 as a result of the consequences of the disease.

repertoire

  • Cenerentola
  • Rosina
  • Hansel
  • Dorabella
  • Carmen
  • Charlotte
  • Orfeo ( Orpheus von Gluck)
  • Marina (Boris Godunov)
  • Tatjana (Eugene Onegin)
  • Rachel (La Juive)
  • Leonore (La Forza del Destino)
  • Brünhilde (The Ring of the Nibelung)
  • Isolde (Tristan and Isolde)
  • Kundry
  • Venus (Tannhauser)
  • Salome
  • Field Marshalin (Der Rosenkavalier)
  • Katerina Ismailowa ( Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Shostakovich)
  • Elektra
  • Kabanicha (Kátja Kabanová)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary at OnlineMerker
  2. ↑ Waltraud Brunst: Ideal image of the bold, magnificent maid Brünnhilde. (No longer available online.) February 8, 2016, archived from the original on February 8, 2016 ; accessed on February 8, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.morgenweb.de
  3. ↑ Message on morgenweb.de , accessed on February 9, 2016
  4. ↑ Jayne Casselman from isoldes-liebestod.net.Retrieved February 9, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Casselman, Jayne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Casselman-Mohr, Jayne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Kansas City
DATE OF DEATH 3rd February 2016
Place of death Phoenix (Arizona)