Johanna Wagner

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Johanna Wagner around 1860 (Photo: Heinrich Graf, Berlin)

Johanna Wagner (also Johanna Jachmann-Wagner ; born October 13, 1828 in Seelze , † October 16, 1894 in Würzburg ) was a German opera singer ( soprano ) and niece of the composer Richard Wagner .

Life

Johanna Wagner made her debut as an actress at the Herzoglich-Bernburgischer Hoftheater in Ballenstedt at the age of 13 , but soon showed such decisive musical talents that she trained as a singer under the direction of her father, the former director at the Berlin Opera, Albert Wagner. Her singing teachers were Pauline Viardot-Garcia , Manuel Patricio Rodríguez García and Marco Bordogni .

After a happy debut as a page in “ Die Huguenots ”, she was engaged in 1844 by her uncle Richard Wagner , who had meanwhile become Kapellmeister in Dresden , at the court stage there . On October 19, 1845 she was the first "Elisabeth" in the world premiere of " Tannhauser ". In Paris she took singing lessons from Manuel Garcia , who brought her disposition to alto in harmony with her soprano, again in Dresden her rival Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient (1804-1860) in particular had a lasting influence on her development.

After Richard Wagner's position in Dresden had become impossible, she too left the stage there in 1849 and accepted an engagement in Hamburg . She later sang with great success in Vienna and Berlin and was engaged in the latter city for ten years (1850-1860) and in 1853 appointed royal chamber singer . In London in 1856 she appeared as Romeo in I Capuleti ei Montecchi and thus took on one of the star roles of Schröder-Devrient.

In 1859 she married the district administrator Alfred Jachmann (1829-1918) and resigned from the opera stage in 1862, but was re-employed two years later in the royal theater and worked there as a classical tragedy with significant success in roles such as Iphigenie and Lady Macbeth up to her retirement in 1872. After that she devoted herself to the vocal training of schoolgirls, worked at the royal music school in Munich from 1881 to 1884 and later in Würzburg until shortly before her death.

In addition to Gluck's works, it was mainly Giacomo Meyerbeer's operas in which she performed excellently. In acting, Antigone , Iphigenia , Brünhild , and Lady Macbeth were among her most outstanding achievements.

  • Johanna Jachmann-Wagner as Ortrud at the Berlin Opera (around 1860)

Roles (selection)

Student (selection)

literature

  • Max Friedlaender :  Wagner-Jachmann, Johanna . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 587-589.
  • Friedrich Kummer: Dresden and its theater world . Heimwerk Sachsen publishing house, Dresden 1938.
  • Erwin Angermayer: Great Women in World History. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Verlag Kaiser, Klagenfurt 1987, ISBN 3-7043-3064-7 .
  • Wolfgang Truig: Wagner's first "Tannhäuser" Elisabeth. Johanna Wagner was born 175 years ago . In: Dresdner Latest News (DNN) of October 13, 2001.
  • Karin Ehrich: Johanna Jachmann-Wagner (1826 - 1894), opera singer . In: Seelzer women in the past - but not from yesterday. Edited by the Seelz women's representative. Seelze 2003, pp. 8-13.

Web links

Commons : Johanna Wagner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 242
  2. ^ NN: Obituary: Johanna Jachmann-Wagner . In: Munich musical news . November 3, 1894.
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Johanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jachmann-Wagner, Johanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (soprano) and niece of the composer Richard Wagner
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Seelze
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1894
Place of death Wurzburg