Liselotte Maikl

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Liselotte Maikl (born March 26, 1925 in Vienna ; † December 10, 2014 in Baden near Vienna) was an Austrian soprano and ballet dancer .

Life

Liselotte Maikl was the daughter of the tenor Georg Maikl (1872–1951) and a ballet dancer. At the age of seven she entered the ballet school of the Vienna State Opera and was a member of the State Opera Ballet until the house was closed due to the war in 1945 . In addition to her ballet training, she also studied singing with Marie Gerhart and received dramatic lessons at the Vienna Music Academy .

Grave of Liselotte Maikl and her father Georg Maikl in the Vienna Central Cemetery

She and her father performed as Christel at the bird dealer . From 1948 to 1950 she was engaged as a singer at the Landestheater Linz , then at the Volksoper Vienna . From 1951 she was a member of the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera, and made her State Opera debut on May 19, 1951 as one of the four noble boys in Wagner's Lohengrin . After the opera building was destroyed in a bombing raid in March 1945, people turned to the Theater an der Wien for rehearsals and performances until it reopened in 1955 . At the Salzburg Festival in 1953 and 1960 she appeared as Barbarina in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro , and in 1960 also in Verdi's Don Carlos . With the Vienna Soloist Orchestra under the direction of Karl Grell , she made TV appearances as an operetta and Wienerlied singer. She said goodbye to the State Opera on December 13, 1978 in Wagner's Walküre , she impersonated a total of 66 different roles in 1206 performances.

In 1974 she was awarded the title of Austrian Chamber Singer .

Maikl died on December 10, 2014 at the age of 89 in the Künstlerheim in Baden near Vienna, where she was a board member of the Artists Help Artists Association and where she spent her final years. She was buried at the side of her father in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 33A / 5/17).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c derStandard.at - Chamber singer Liselotte Maikl dies . Article dated December 11, 2014, accessed December 13, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b c State Opera - Chamber singer Liselotte Maikl died . Retrieved December 13, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b c d Alexander Rausch , Monika Kornberger: Maikl, family. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .
  4. ↑ Liselotte Maikl - one of the forgotten . Retrieved December 13, 2014.
  5. ↑ Liselotte Maikl at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
  6. ↑ Klassik.com - Chamber singer Liselotte Maikl is dead . Article dated December 12, 2014, accessed December 13, 2014.
  7. ^ Künstlerheim Baden - Board of Directors . Retrieved December 13, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Maikl, Liselotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soprano and ballet dancer
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 2014
Place of death Baden near Vienna