Lola Artot de Padilla

Lola Artôt de Padilla
before September 1905

Lola Artôt de Padilla (born October 5, 1876 in Sèvres near Paris; † April 12, 1933 in Berlin ; actually Dolores de Padilla ) was a French-Spanish soprano who performed mainly in Germany.

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As the daughter of the well-known Belgian mezzo-soprano Désirée Artôt de Padilla and the Spanish baritone Mariano Padilla y Ramos (1842–1906), she received exclusive singing studies from her mother and made her debut in 1902 in a concert in Paris. After guest appearances at the Hoftheater in Wiesbaden (in the title role of Ambroise Thomas ' Mignon ), at the Royal Opera in Stockholm and at the Philharmonic in Warsaw , she was engaged at the Komische Oper in Berlin from 1905 to 1908 . Here she was involved in the premiere of the opera Romeo and Juliet in the village of Frederick Delius .

After a year-long guest tour in Europe, she became a member of the ensemble of the Royal Opera House in Berlin as a character soprano in 1909 and was awarded the title of royal Prussian chamber singer in 1913 . Here she sang Octavian in the first performance of Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss , in the same year the goose maid in Engelbert Humperdinck's Königskinder , in 1916 the composer in Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss, and in 1921 in the premiere of the opera Turandot by Ferruccio Busoni . She also made guest appearances in Holland and Scandinavia. In 1927 she left the theater stage, where she had proven herself above all as a Mozart interpreter (e.g. as Cherubino and Countess in Figaro's wedding and as Zerlina in Don Giovanni ). Furthermore, she successfully performed a wide variety of roles in a broad repertoire: Marie in Bedřich Smetana's Bartered Bride , Charlotte in Jules Massenet's Werther , Micaela in Georges Bizet's Carmen , Amelia and Oscar in A Masked Ball and Violetta in La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi . Most recently she worked as a singing teacher in Berlin.

Your final resting place is in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf .

literature

• Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4
• Mariano Pérez Gutiérrez: Diccionario de la música y los músicos ( Spanish ). Ediciones AKAL, December 32, 1984, ISBN 9788470901386 , p. 9 (accessed August 30, 2011).
• Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Großes Sängerlexikon , Vol. 1, Bern-Stuttgart 1987, pp. 104-105.
• The history of art and the present, 2.A., Vol. 1, Kassel u. 1999, col. 1051.
• German Biographical Encyclopedia, 2.A., Vol. 1, Munich 2005, p. 246.