Leonore Kirschstein

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Leonore Kirschstein (born March 29, 1933 in Stettin , Prussia ; † February 26, 2017 ) was a German opera singer with a soprano voice and a lecturer in solo singing .

Life

Leonore Kirschstein completed an apprenticeship as an opera and concert singer at the Robert Schumann Conservatory in Düsseldorf with Franziska Martienssen-Lohmann from 1952 to 1958 . From 1958 to 1960 she worked as a lyric soprano at the Städtische Oper Berlin . In the 1960 to 1963 seasons she was engaged at the Stadttheater Kiel . Meanwhile she sang the soprano solo in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem at the Salzburg Festival in 1961 . In 1963 she moved to the Stadttheater Augsburg and stayed there until 1965. Here she met and fell in love with her colleague, the baritone Ernst Grathwol . As a concert singer she made guest appearances in several Italian cities in 1964 with Beethoven's Missa solemnis . Her next stop was the stages of the city of Cologne from 1965 to 1968 . General music director István Kertész had signed her here.

With the ensemble of the Bavarian State Opera she made a guest appearance at the Edinburgh Festival in 1965 as Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte . In the same year she also appeared at the Montreux Festival and from this year almost every year at the Münchner Festwochen. While her commitment to the Bavarian State Opera in Munich was still based on a guest performance at the time, she received a permanent commitment in 1968, which was only resolved in 1981. In 1969 she gave a guest appearance at the Vienna State Opera , where she sang Elisabeth in Tannhäuser . In 1970 she sang first lady in Mozart's Magic Flute at the Salzburg Festival . The following year she repeated this at the Edinburgh Festival. She can also be seen in this role in the 1970/71 film adaptation of The Magic Flute . In the 1971/72 season she appeared at the Scottish Opera Glasgow as Sieglinde in Richard Wagner's Walküre . On August 1, 1972, she took part in the main role of the world premiere of the opera Sim Tjong by the South Korean composer Yun I-sang at the Bavarian State Opera . On March 18, 1974 she was appointed Bavarian Chamber Singer . Guest appearances have also taken her to Hamburg, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf and Zurich. Abroad, she toured in the UK, Italy, Turkey and the USA. In addition to her actual presence as an opera actress, she also appeared as a concert, oratorio and lieder singer.

In 1979, towards the end of her stage career, she devoted herself to a new task by volunteering as a lecturer for solo singing / voice training at the Academy for Music of the City of Augsburg, today's Leopold Mozart Center .

Leonore Kirschstein died on February 26, 2017. She had a daughter with her husband Ernst Grathwol, Rebecca Grathwol (* 1966).

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Kirschstein's stage roles included: Eurydike in Orpheus and Eurydike by Christoph Willibald Gluck , Countess di Almaviva in Figaro's wedding , Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni , Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte and Pamina in the Magic Flute , all by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Agathe in Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber , Elisabeth in Tannhäuser , Elsa in Lohengrin , Freia in Rheingold , Sieglinde in Die Walküre , Gutrune in der Götterdämmerung and Eva in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg , all by Richard Wagner , the title role in Die Kluge by Carl Orff , Micaela in Carmen by Georges Bizet , the empress in Die Frau ohne Schatten , the title role in Arabella and the Feldmarschallin in Der Rosenkavalier , all by Richard Strauss , Desdemona in Otello , Elisabetta in Don Carlos and Alice Ford in Falstaff , all by Giuseppe Verdi , Antonia in Hoffmann's stories by Jacques Offenbach .

There are recordings by: Missa solemnis on Nonesuch Records (1965), JS Bach: Schleicht, spielende Wellen, and murmurs gently [congratulations cantata] on Bärenreiter-Musicaphon (1966), Cardillac (Cardillac's daughter) on Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft (1968), Lohengrin (Elsa) on Westminster (1968), Die Zauberflöte (1st Lady) on Electrola (1973).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Kirschstein, Leonore, p. 227 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Kirschstein Leonore. Soprano. In: operissimo.com. Retrieved December 10, 2018 (English translation on bach-cantatas.com ).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Walter Nowotny: In Memoriam-Birthday in March 2018. 29.3. Leonore KIRSCHSTEIN: 85th birthday. In: onlinemerker.com. Anton Cupak, March 2, 2018, accessed December 10, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b c Rüdiger Heinze: Opera star and pedagogue. On the death of Leonore Kirschstein. In: augsburger-allgemeine.de. March 1, 2017, accessed December 10, 2018 .
  5. ^ Leonore Kirschstein. Actress * 1935. Filmography. In: filmportal.de. Retrieved December 10, 2018 .
  6. ↑ a b On the death of Leonore Kirschstein. In: staatsoper.de. Christoph Koch, March 14, 2017, accessed December 10, 2018 .

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SURNAME Kirschstein, Leonore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer and singing teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin , Prussia
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 2017