Karl Terkal
Karl Terkal (born October 7, 1919 in Vienna ; † August 12, 1996 there ) was an Austrian opera singer ( tenor ).
Life
He learned the art and furniture carpentry trade and worked in his profession until 1939 or after military service until 1949. He took singing lessons and his first role was Don Ottavio at the Graz City Theater in 1950 . Then in 1952 he came to the Vienna State Opera , of which he was a member for 40 years. There he sang 221 times the landlord in Rosenkavalier .
He also sang at the Salzburg Festival and the Bregenz Festival and as an opera singer he had great success at the Vienna Volksoper . He achieved his best performances with the radiant tenor voice in the lyric field with roles in operas by Giacomo Puccini , Giuseppe Verdi , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Strauss .
His historic grave is in the Baumgartner Friedhof in Vienna (group E, number 59).
Awards
- 1969: Chamber singer at the Vienna State Opera
- 1971: The orange scented rose Kammersänger Terkal is named after him
- 1984: Honorary member of the Vienna State Opera
- 1990: Gold Medal of Honor of the Federal Capital Vienna
- 2002: A 950 m² park 14th in Vienna, Linzer Straße 426 (next to the Hütteldorfer parish church at the terminus of the tram line 49) was Karl-Terkal Park named
Exhibitions
- 2009 and 2011: District Museum Währing memorial exhibition Karl Terkal
literature
- Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Third, expanded edition. Munich 1999. Volume 5: Seideman – Zysset, p. 3448. ISBN 3-598-11419-2
- Alexander Rausch : Terkal, Karl. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .
- Klaus Ulrich Spiegel: Karl Terkal - Tenoral brilliance with Viennese flair (HAfG 2009; see web links)
- Gregor Hauser: Magical Sounds. Austrian tenors of the post-war period . Verlag Der Apfel 2020, ISBN 978-3-85450-019-3 . Pp. 96-119.
Web links
- Works by and about Karl Terkal in the catalog of the German National Library
- Karl Terkal at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- Klaus Ulrich Spiegel: KARL TERKAL - Tenoral brilliance with Viennese flair
- Karl Terkal's appearances at the Vienna State Opera
- Karl Terkal in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Terkal, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian opera singer (tenor) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 7, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 12, 1996 |
| Place of death | Vienna |