Lili Dreßler

Lili Dressler in 1887

Lili Dreßler , also Lilli Dressler ( February 11, 1857 in Würzburg - January 16, 1927 in Munich ) was a German opera singer ( soprano ) and singing teacher .

Life

Dreßler was the daughter of a royal. District Doctor. Her bright, pure voice and musical security were already noticed in her childhood. She really sang everything she had heard and the intonation was surprisingly good at times. It was therefore decided to have the little one trained. At first she was given lessons by an able singing teacher, a student of the Taliani, and in 1881 Johanna Jachmann-Wagner took over her further training.

After an audition on the Munich stage, which was accompanied by particularly favorable success, it was immediately decided to sign the young artist to the court theater and appeared on March 14, 1883 as "Pamina" in the "Magic Flute" in front of the severely judging audience the Bavarian capital. Dreßler did not need to fear criticism, however, because her voice and her excellent training soon aroused unanimous recognition. Her second inaugural role (“Margarethe” in “Faust”) met with even greater applause. In this second game you completely forgot that you had to judge a beginner and the audience and criticism expressed themselves in the highest words of praise for the performance of the young debutante. The artist never left this art institute either, and since she was given an excellent artistic position that increased from role to role, year by year, her security and versatility in the youthful dramatic field made her a mainstay of the Munich opera repertoire.

She quickly increased the circle of her roles and soon included "Katharina", "Mignon", "Elsa", "Elisabeth", "Pamina", "Agathe", "Santuzza", "Anna" ("White Lady") and so on their best performances. In 1889 Dreßler was called to the Bayreuth Festival , where she was able to give proof of her abundance to an international audience as "Eva" in the "Meistersinger" and "Solo girl" in the "Parsifal". For the stage she brought with her a number of valuable qualities: a harmonious, metal-pure voice, (her organ was a clear soprano of considerable size, who had the indefinable magic of virginal astringency to a high degree) good school, (she was long far below the immediate Influence of her teacher, to whom she definitely owed her rapid career) natural musical talent, quick comprehension, serious ambition and the full charm of youth.

After her stage career she worked as a singing teacher . One of her students was the soprano Lite Olszewski-Thomasius , the wife of the painter Karl Ewald Olszewski .

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 212 f., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

• Lili Dreßler in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
• Lili Dreßler at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon

This article is based on a public domain text from Ludwig Eisenberg's Large Biographical Lexicon of the German Stage in the 19th Century , 1903 edition.

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