Julius Zarest
Georg Leonhard Julius Zarest ; Born Georg Leonhard Julius Zapf ( May 11, 1865 in Frankfurt am Main - October 31, 1939 in Stettin ) was a German opera singer ( baritone ).
Life
Zarest was born under the name Georg Leonhard Julius Zapf as the son of postal director Adam Zapf and his wife Helena born. Weinberg born. By order of the district president of Szczecin, he was allowed to officially use the surname Zarest from 1915. Zarest initially studied music at the Hoch Conservatory and wanted to train for a career as a conductor. However, when he began to study singing, his voice was widely praised and he decided to pursue a career as a singer. He first studied with Franz Krückl , then went to Milan to attend Italian school with Cesare Galliera . He found his first engagement in 1888 at the Stadttheater Trier, whereupon he came to Bern, then to the Stadttheater am Brausenwerth in Elberfeld, which he left to join the Association of the Wiesbaden Court Theater.
In 1891 he went to America, where he worked at the Amberg Theater in New York and toured the United States.
After returning to Europe, he stayed at the Mannheim court theater for a short time, only to accept an engagement at the court theater in Hanover in 1894, to which he was a member until 1902. There he took part in the world premiere of the opera “ Matteo Falcone ” by Theodor Gerlach in 1898 .
From 1902 to 1906 he was employed at the Stettin City Theater. He appeared as a guest at the Munich Court Opera in 1901 and at the Riga Opera House in 1903. He was best known as a great Wagner interpreter. His other roles were " Rigoletto ", "Nelusco" in Meyerbeer's "Africaine", " Don Giovanni ", the title hero in Rossini's " Wilhelm Tell " and "Bois Guilbert" in Marschner's " The Templar and the Jewess ".
After the end of his career he ran a singing school in Stettin, where he also died in October 1939.
Web links
- Julius Zarest in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Julius Zarest at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Birth register Frankfurt registry book, 1865, entry no.712
- ^ Stettin I death register, 1939, entry no.1647
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zarest, Julius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zarest, Georg Leonhard Julius (full name); Zapf, Georg Leonhard Julius (birth name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (baritone) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 31, 1939 |
| Place of death | Szczecin |