Liesel Bachem Sayre

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Liesel Bachem Sayre (born November 7, 1919 in Horrem , North Rhine-Westphalia , † January 13, 2014 in Cologne ) was a German-American translator and opera librettist .

Life

Bachem Sayre studied early music and harpsichord at the Munich Conservatory . In 1950 she met her future husband, a flautist and early music expert, at a party in the United States; her husband died in 1980.

In 1983 she translated her first opera, Rodrigo by Georg Friedrich Händel , for the new production in the summer of 1984 at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music ; then she received all the translation jobs from René Jacobs and Konrad Junghänel for their productions at the Innsbruck Music Weeks. She translated baroque operas from Italian , English and French into German , and sometimes into English. Bachem Sayre provided each of their new translations with an extensive list of footnotes that presented the mythological backgrounds of the works, their allusions to customs and regional culture, but also linguistic components and different dialects of Italian.

For the Cologne Opera she wrote new translations of the librettos for the operas L'incoronazione di Poppea and Semele . In 2002 she translated the libretto for Il ritorno di Giulio Cesare , a forgotten opera by Giovanni Bononcini , for the Cologne University of Music ; Konrad Junghänel was the conductor on this production. For the production of the opera Eliogabalo by Francesco Cavalli at the Innsbruck Festival in August 2004, Bachem Syre presented a new translation.

Bachem Sayre was involved as a translator and consultant on many opera recordings for the music label Harmonia Mundi as well as for WDR and ORF . She wrote the new German translation of the libretto for the recording of the oratorio Cain overo il primo omicidio by Alessandro Scarlatti for Harmonia Mundi (1998) with René Jacobs.

She has also published articles and smaller musical treatises, especially on the work of the translator, in various music journals.

Bachem Sayre last lived in a nursing home run by Diakonie Michaelshoven .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Liesel Bachem Sayre obituary in: Süddeutsche Zeitung from January 15, 2014; accessed on March 8, 2014
  2. ↑ Liesel Bachem Syre discography at Discogs. Retrieved March 8, 2014
  3. ^ Cain overo il primo omicidio . German translation of the libretto by Liesel Bachen Sayre. In: Days of Old Music Herne 2012. (Program)
personal data
SURNAME Sayre, Liesel Bachem
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American translator and opera librettist
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Horrem , North Rhine-Westphalia
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 2014
Place of death Cologne