Lina Abarbanell

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Lina Abarbanell

Lina Abarbanell (full name: Caroline Lina Abarbanell, after marriage to Caroline Lina Goldbeck; born  January 3, 1879 in Berlin , German Empire ; † January 6, 1963 in New York City , New York , United States ) was a German opera singer ( soprano ) and stage actress .

Life

1879 to 1897 childhood and education in Berlin

Abarbanell was born as the daughter of the conductor Paul Abarbanell (1851-1919) and his wife Marie Abarbanell (née Abrahamsohn; * 1853). Abarbanell came from an important Sephardic family. She sang in front of an audience for the first time at the age of seven. She trained as an actress at the Berlin Residenztheater and took singing lessons from teachers Plohn and Steinmann in Berlin. When she was fifteen, she sang Adele in Die Fledermaus at the Berlin Court Opera . In 1896 she played in the Neues Theater and in May at the Deutsches Theater in Der böse Geist Lumpacivagabundus .

Engagements in Europe from 1897 to 1905

From 1897 on, Abarbanell was engaged as an actress and singer at the city theater in Poznan . She sang Zerlina in Don Giovanni and played Hedwig in Die Wildente . In 1900 she returned to the Court Opera in Berlin. On October 25, 1900, she married the political journalist and writer Eduard Goldbeck (1866–1934) in Berlin. In 1901 she gave birth to a daughter, Eva Goldbeck (1901–1936). She then belonged to the Überbrettl ensemble for a year . In April 1902 she played in the farce Die kleine Kammer by Hans Hyan . During this time the two songs The beautiful Isidor by Oscar Strauss and The merciful girl by Rideamus-Rothstein were published by Verlag Harmonie in Berlin as Lina Abarbanell's greatest hits. She developed into a star here and was hired as an operetta singer at the Theater an der Wien in autumn 1902 . Here she made her debut on September 18, 1902 as Saffi in Der Zigeunerbaron . Her acting skills and her expressive voice made her a popular soubrette and operetta diva. Operetta composers like Oscar Straus , Franz Lehár and Edmund Eysler wrote roles for them. On October 11, 1902, she participated in the world premiere of the operetta The Tourist Guide by Carl Michael Ziehrer , on November 21, 1902 as Clara in the world premiere of Wiener Frauen by Franz Lehár and on February 20, 1903 in that of Edmund Eysler's brother Straubinger . Between 1902 and 1904 she made about twenty sound recordings. In 1904 she made guest appearances at the Deutsches Theater in Prague and in Amsterdam. After appearing in London , Abarbanell went to the Thalia Theater Berlin in the 1904/05 season.

1905 to 1934 career as a singer in the United States

Then Abarbanell went to the United States with her family . Heinrich Conried initially engaged her at the German-speaking Irving Place Theater and for Hansel in Engelbert Humperdinck's fairy tale opera Hansel and Gretel at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. She made her debut in New York on October 5th at Irving Place Thetre as a soubrette in the role of Hanni in the operetta Spring Air by Josef Strauss . In addition to the US premiere on November 25, 1905, she sang Hansel fifteen times until April 4, 1906. These included guest appearances by the ensemble in Philadelphia , Pittsburgh , Washington, DC and Chicago . In 1907 she sang Hanna in The Merry Widow in Chicago and later in Boston . This also became her most successful role. In 1910 she took Broadway by storm as the star of the musical Madame Sherry . In this role she was also convincing in the production in Chicago. She traveled as a singer in the coming years, the United States and occurred mainly in operettas and musicals as The Geisha , The Red Canary, The Silver Swan, Bella Flora, The Grand Duke, Enter Madame and Student Prince The on . In 1913 she appeared as The Merry Widow in the 47th edition of the Animated Weekly newsreel. In 1933 their daughter Eva, now a writer, married the composer Marc Blitzstein . After the death of her husband Eduard Goldbeck in 1934, Abarbanell ended her singing career in 1934.

1934 to 1963 time after her stage career

After her stage farewell, she stayed in the USA. She was active as a casting director and as a production assistant for musical producer Dwight Deere Wiman (1895-1951) on Broadway . Joint productions were I Married an Angel, Stars in your eyes , The Big Knife , Dance me a song and The Country Girl . She paved the way for actresses Vera Ellen and June Allyson , among others . Leonard Bernstein , who was friends with Blitzstein and worked with him, memorialized her in 1952 by using the name Abarbanell in a Scatchorus in his opera Trouble in Tahiti . She was a casting consultant for the production of Carmen Jones . After Eva's death in 1936, she and Marc Blitzstein had a lifelong friendship. For his opera Regina 1949 and his musical Juno 1959, she still supervised the casting even in old age.

literature

Web links

Commons : Lina Abarbanell  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jews in the German Empire: Caroline Lina ABARBANELL * 1879 +1963. Retrieved November 4, 2017 .
  2. ^ Jews in the German Empire: Paul ABARBANELL * 1851 +1919. Retrieved November 4, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Eric A. Gordon: Lina Abarbanell. Jewish Women's Archive, accessed November 4, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h Karl-Josef Kutsch, Leo Riemens: Großes Sängerlexikon . Walter de Gruyter, 2004, ISBN 978-3-598-44088-5 ( google.de [accessed November 4, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Theater and Art News . In: New Free Press . Vienna May 5, 1896, p. 6 ( onb.ac.at ).
  6. ↑ a b Is Lina Abarbanell a new Geistinger? In: The New York Times . New York October 5, 1905, p. 44 (English, newspapers.com ).
  7. ↑ a b Varied Talents of a visiting singer from Germany . In: The Sun . New York October 8, 1905, p. 18 (English, newspapers.com ).
  8. ↑ Notes . In: Editing and publishing house of the "Modern Brettl" (Hrsg.): Das moderne Brettl . Verlag des Modernes Brettl, Berlin April 1902, p. 2 ( staatsbibliothek-berlin.de ).
  9. ↑ Lina Abarbanell's greatest hit . In: The modern board . No. 7 . Verlag des Modernes Brettl, Berlin April 1902, p. 101 ( staatsbibliothek-berlin.de ).
  10. ↑ Theater and Art . In: The humorist . Vienna May 10, 1902, p. 3 ( onb.ac.at ).
  11. ↑ Theater, Art and Literature . In: Deutsches Volksblatt . Vienna September 19, 1902, p. 10 ( onb.ac.at [accessed on January 23, 2019]).
  12. ↑ From the realm of art . In: German Correspondent . Baltimore June 19, 1905, p. 3 ( newspapers.com ).
  13. ↑ Mr. Conried . In: Brooklyn Life . Brooklyn, New York September 30, 1905, pp. 27 (English, newspapers.com ).
  14. ^ Irving Place Theater . In: New York Tribune . New York October 6, 1905, p. 7 (English, newspapers.com ).
  15. ↑ Inmagic, Inc .: Metropolitan Opera Association. Retrieved November 4, 2017 (English, enter Linda Abarbanell as a search term).
  16. ↑ George S. Wood: The Chicago Production of "Madame Sherry" . In: Fine Arts Journal . tape 22 , no. 5 , 1910, ISSN  2151-2760 , pp. 279-282 , JSTOR : 23906254 (English).
  17. ↑ Animated Weekly, No. 47 (1913). Retrieved November 4, 2017 .
  18. ↑ The Broadway League: I Married an Angel - Broadway Musical - Original | IBDB. Retrieved November 4, 2017 .
  19. ↑ Eric A. Gordon: Mark the Music: The Life and Work of Marc Blitzstein . iUniverse, San Jose / New York / Lincoln / Shanghai 2000, ISBN 978-0-595-09248-2 , pp. 358 (English, google.de [accessed on November 4, 2017]).
  20. ↑ Carmen Jones (1954). Retrieved November 4, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Abarbanell, Lina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abarbanell, Caroline Lina (full name prior to marriage); Goldbeck, Caroline Lina (full name after marriage)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (soprano) and stage actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1963
Place of death New York City , New York , United States