Johanna Mugrauer
Johanna Mugrauer (born March 28, 1869 in Bad Grindschädel / Gutwasser , † November 15, 1940 in Prachatitz / Prachatice ) was an Austrian opera singer ( soprano ).
Life
Her parents ran the Kurhaus in Bad Grindschädel. Spa guests noticed the girl's talent for voice. They therefore advised their parents to have their daughter trained as a singer at the conservatory - first in Linz and then in Prague . As a coloratura soprano she worked from 1891 with fixed contracts in Linz ( Landständisches Theater ), Prague ( Deutsches Theater ), Szczecin (City Theater), Nuremberg ( City Theater ), Mannheim ( National Theater ), Magdeburg ( Municipal Theater ), Chernivtsi (City Theater), Olomouc (Royal City Theater), Berlin ( Theater des Westens ), Rostock ( City Theater ) and Essen ( City Theater ). From 1906 she made guest appearances from Berlin without a permanent commitment; most recently at the Metropolitan Opera in New York .
In 1910 she withdrew from the stage and settled near her place of birth in Prachatitz / Prachatice, where she bought the Villa Tilp from her savings and led a secluded but apparently adequate life as "private" with two sisters who were also single . However, in 1928 she was forced to sell her villa because of the loss of her investments in securities caused by the Great Depression. She spent the rest of her life in her brother's house in Prachatitz - largely forgotten. She was buried in her parents' grave in the cemetery in Sablat / Záblatí . In August 2019, a bilingual plaque was placed there in memory of the artist.
Although she was a prima donna on stage, she made no noise out of her person. In the German bourgeois circles of Prachatitz, the reason for the early end of her career was the talk of "intrigues" to which she no longer wanted to be exposed. With the expulsion of the German residents of the city in 1946, the memory of the "Nightingale of the Bohemian Forest" gradually disappeared.
Roles (selection)
- Constanze - The Abduction from the Seraglio ( Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart )
- Queen of the Night - The Magic Flute (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
- Marzelline - Fidelio ( Ludwig van Beethoven )
- Agathe - Der Freischütz ( Carl Maria von Weber )
- Frau Fluth - The Merry Wives of Windsor ( Otto Nicolai )
- Woglinde - Das Rheingold ( Richard Wagner )
- Eva - The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (Richard Wagner)
- Lucia - Lucia di Lammermoor ( Gaetano Donizetti )
- Violetta - La traviata ( Giuseppe Verdi )
- Frasquita - Carmen ( Georges Bizet )
literature
- Collegium Carolinum Munich: Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries . Oldenbourg , Munich 1984, ISBN 978-3-9443-9652-1 , p. 717
- Kosch: German Theater Lexicon . Kleinmayr Verlag, Klagenfurt 2000, ISBN 978-3-9082-5548-2 , p. 1585
- New Theater Almanac, ed. from the Cooperative of German Stage Members , born 1891–1914, available online
- Sudetendeutsches Musikinstitut Regensburg, Widmar Hader (Hrsg.): Lexicon on German musical culture - Bohemia, Moravia, Sudeten Silesia . Verlag Langen Müller , Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3-7844-2799-7 , p. 949
Web links
- Pictures from her life on the website Kohoutí kříž / ´s Hohnakreiz (Czech) of the South Bohemian Scientific Library (Jihočeská vědecká knihovna) in Budweis , accessed on February 10, 2019
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mugrauer, Johanna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian opera singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 28, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Grindschädel / Gutwasser |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 15, 1940 |
| Place of death | Prachatitz / Prachatice |