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Lorenzo Riese (born March 17, 1836 in Mainz , † May 28, 1907 in Radebeul ; also Lorenz Riese ) was a German opera singer ( tenor ).

Lorenzo Riese, photo by Fritz Luckhardt

Life

On the right the former residence at Riesestrasse 6 of Lorenzo Riese (1911)

After Riese had already learned various musical instruments as a child, at the age of sixteen he became a member of the theater orchestra in Mainz as a violin and trumpet player . From 1855 he took singing lessons from the chamber singer Ernst Koch in Cologne. In 1861 he made his debut at the opera house there.

His engagements took him to Hamburg, to the Kroll Opera in Berlin and to the Stadttheater in Bremen . In 1865 he was back in Cologne, his inaugural role was the Manrico in Il Trovatore by Verdi . From 1868 he was a hero tenor at the opera house in Breslau, after 1870 at the city theater in Nuremberg.

The conductor and Kapellmeister Ernst von Schuch brought the well-known tenor to the Dresden Court Opera as the Royal Chamber Tenor on May 1, 1873 , where he performed until 1893. In Richard Wagner's romantic opera Lohengrin , he found his star role in the title role, plus the outstanding roles of Tamino in the Magic Flute and Eleazar in the Jewess of Jacques Fromental Halévy . Since Riese was physically rather compact, this earned him the nickname “The Silver Frog”.

Riese lived in Riesestraße, named after him in 1897, on the Radebeul side of the street. His house with the street address No. 6 was on the part of Riesestrasse that extended to Meißner Strasse . According to the building files, Riese had completed the renovation and new construction of his domicile in 1890. On the property on the corner of Meißner Straße stood an ornate, wrought-iron gate with the letters LR.After purchasing the rural property in 1880 from an owner Haubold, he had a music pavilion built in 1880, a kitchen extension in 1882 and a greenhouse in 1883.

In 1915 his property belonged to the Radebeul school community and it was inhabited by the building officer Ewald Genzmer , professor at the Technical University of Dresden. Today the area is built over by GDR factory buildings of the former VEB Kraftwerkanlagenbau , Rieses Villa has disappeared and the GDR Museum Zeitreise existed on Meißner Straße until 2016 .

Riese was cremated in the Chemnitz crematorium and buried in the Radebeul-Ost cemetery.

Roles (selection)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to the civil status documents of the Radebeul City Archives , handed over to user: Jbergner on August 4, 2010
  2. ^ According to the address book of Dresden and suburbs. 1915. Part VI, pp. 429, 456.
  3. ↑ death survey . In: Dresdner Geschichtsblätter , No. 2, 1908, p. 248.
  4. ↑ Hikes in Radebeul
personal data
SURNAME Giant, Lorenzo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Giant, Lorenz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1907
Place of death Radebeul