Johanna Fischer-Frey
Johanna Fischer-Frey , also Johanna Fischer , née Johanna Frey ( August 20, 1867 in Klagenfurt - July 24, 1907 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian opera and operetta singer ( soprano ).
Life
Fischer-Frey was training to be an accountant and was about to take a position in the office when her beautiful voice was discovered and she was advised to have her trained for the theater. For four years she pursued vocal studies with the Klagenfurt Music Director with great enthusiasm until she made her debut at the Salzburg City Theater in 1884 .
Her beautiful figure as well as her splendid vocal means immediately won over her, and for two years she worked in the first operetta roles on this stage, until in 1886 she obeyed a call to the city theater in Würzburg . There her voice developed more and more, so that it was also used in great operas, and with success (e.g. "Irmentraut" in the armorer ). After another two years she came to Reichenberg as an operetta singer and in 1888 to the summer theater in Braunschweig, where she was considered the darling of the audience for three years. This was followed by a year-long activity at the Stadttheater in Magdeburg , from where she was employed at the Theater an der Wien in 1891 . Here she found ample encouragement from the management and the most approving reception from the public. In her first roles as "Harriet" in Poor Jonathan and "Electress Marie" in Bird Trader , she won general sympathy. For almost eight years she was the first female operetta singer at this theater. Then she followed an application to the Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich and in 1899 became a member of the Carl-Schultze-Theater in Hamburg.
Her voice was also praised in this sphere of activity, an extremely powerful, full-sounding, trained soprano, who met even greater demands and was enhanced in an advantageous manner by the tasteful presentation and excellent pronunciation. From 1901 to 1902 the artist worked at the Lyric Theater in Bucharest and in September 1902 was engaged at the Jantsch Theater in Vienna.
The artist married in Vienna in 1890 with Alexander Fischer , then a member of the Deutsches Volkstheater .
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 261 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Elisabeth Th. Hilscher-Fritz: Frey, Johanna. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .
- Johanna Fischer-Frey. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 359 f. (Direct links on p. 359 , p. 360 ).
Web links
- Johanna Fischer-Frey in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Johanna Fischer-Frey at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- Johanna Fischer-Frey in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fischer-Frey, Johanna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fischer, Johanna; Frey, Johanna (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian opera and operetta singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 20, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Klagenfurt |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 24, 1907 |
| Place of death | Salzburg |