Leonie Rysanek

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Honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery
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Leonie Rysanek (born November 14, 1926 in Vienna ; † March 7, 1998 there ) was an Austrian opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Leonie Rysanek began her career at the Innsbruck State Theater , where she made her debut in 1949 as “Agathe” in Der Freischütz , although she had not yet completed her vocal studies in Vienna. Engagements followed in Saarbrücken , where Rysanek made guest appearances in 1952 as part of the 1948 cultural agreement between Saarland and France at the Paris Théâtre des Champs-Élysées with the operas Arabella by Richard Strauss and Peer Gynt by Werner Egk , and in Munich . In 1950 she married the singer and director Rudolf Großmann .

From 1955 to 1991 she was engaged at the Vienna State Opera . In 1959 she stepped in for Maria Callas at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in the role of "Lady Macbeth", which was considered a "triumphant success" for her. In the years up to 1996 she had over 300 appearances at the Met. In Vienna and New York, she was one of the biggest stars of her time and was enormously popular with the audience.

In the 1950s and 1960s she sang regularly in Bayreuth . She also appeared at the Salzburg Festival . 1997/98 Rysanek was President of the Wiener Festwochen .

Leonie Rysanek was married to the musicologist and journalist Ernst Ludwig Gausmann in 1968. She died of cancer in 1998 . She was buried in a grave of honor in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 33 G, number 27). In 2014, the Leonie-Rysanek-Weg in Vienna- Donaustadt (22nd district) was named after her.

Her sister Lotte Rysanek was also a singer.

Audio samples

Important games

Senta in Der Fliegende Holländer , Elisabeth in Tannhäuser , Elsa and Ortrud in Lohengrin , Sieglinde in Die Walküre , Kundry in Parsifal
Title role and Herodias in Salome , Chrysothemis, Klytämnestra and Elektra in Elektra , Ariadne in Ariadne auf Naxos , Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier , Kaiserin in Die Frau ohne Schatten , Helena in Die Ägyptische Helena , Danae in Die Liebe der Danae
Lady Macbeth in Macbeth , title role in Aida , Amelia in Masked Ball , Desdemona in Otello , Elisabetta in Don Carlo , Leonora in La forza del destino , Abigaille in Nabucco
  • other composers:
Title roles in Tosca and Turandot by Giacomo Puccini , sexton in Jenufa and Kabanicha in Katya Kabanova by Leos Janacek , Countess in The Queen of Spades and Tatyana in Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , Leonore in Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven , Milada in Dalibor by Smetana , Title role in Medea by Luigi Cherubini , title role in La Gioconda by Amilcare Ponchielli , Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana by Pietro Mascagni

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dagmar Schlingmann, Harald Müller (ed.): No limits, 75 years of the Saarland State Theater . Berlin 2013, p. 152.
  2. ↑ Monika Kornberger, Uwe Harten: Rysanek, sisters. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .
  3. ↑ Caption: Mayor Helmut Zilk presented on (…) . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 26, 1987, p. 29 , bottom right ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  4. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Rysanek, Leonie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rysanek-Gausmann, Leonie; Rysanek, Leopoldine (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1998
Place of death Vienna