Karola Jovanović
Karola Jovanović ( Cyrillic Карола Јовановић ; * 1879 , † January 1958 in Vienna , Austria ) was an opera singer ( soprano ).
Life
From 1904 to 1905 she was active as a singer in the Czech Republic , at the Olomouc City Theater . Until 1906 she worked as a singer at the Frankfurt Opera House and then until 1911 at the Graz Opera House . After 1911 she went to the Vienna Court Opera , where she had guest performances in 1909 and 1911, and stayed there until 1932. She occasionally played the role of the nymph Echo in the world premiere of the second version of the Richard Strauss opera Ariadne in October 1916 on Naxos .
Guest performances took her to the Munich Court Opera in 1906 and 1907, to the Berlin Court Opera in 1908 and 1911 and to the Salzburg Festival in 1922, 1926 and from 1929 to 1931 .
Other operatic roles were that of Marie in The Armory by Albert Lortzing , Marzelline in Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera Fidelio , Anna in The Merry Wives of Windsor by Otto Nicolai , Gretel in Hansel and Gretel and that of Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini .
literature
- Uwe Harten : Jovanivic, Karola. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7001-3044-9 .
- Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Volume 3: Franc – Kaidanoff, p. 2279. Fourth, expanded and updated edition. Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-11598-9
- Wilhelm Beetz: The Vienna Opera House. 1869 to 1945. Zurich 1949
Web links
- Karola Jovanović at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- Austrian National Library - Pictures and Graphics - Jovanovic, Karola
- Art Historical Museum Vienna - Image database - Karola Jovanovic
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Karl-Josef Kutsch, Leo Riemens: Large singing dictionary . KG Saur, Munich 2003, p. 2279 .
- ↑ Uwe Harten : Jovanivic, Karola. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7001-3044-9 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jovanović, Karola |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Јовановић, Карола (ShS) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Opera singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1879 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 1958 |
| Place of death | Vienna , Austria |