Lotte Schöne

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Lotte Schöne , née Charlotte Bodenstein , married Schönwälder , married Flandrak , (born December 15, 1893 in Vienna , † December 22, 1977 in Bobigny near Paris ) was an Austrian opera and lieder singer ( soprano ).

Life

Lotte Schöne is considered one of the great German-speaking opera singers of the first half of the twentieth century. It celebrated its greatest triumphs in the period after the First World War until the National Socialists came to power. During this period Lotte Schöne sang mainly in Vienna and Berlin, but also at the Salzburg Festival and in numerous guest performances abroad.

Lotte Schöne received her vocal training from Johannes Ress and his sister Luise as well as from Maria Brossement in Vienna. She made her debut at the Vienna Volksoper in 1912 as the bridesmaid in Carl Maria von Weber's Freischütz . A year later she was committed to the Vienna Court Opera (later the State Opera ), where she celebrated triumphs under the aegis of Franz Schalk until 1926. After that, Lotte Schöne was able to seamlessly continue her career at the Städtische Oper Berlin . Regular engagements at the Salzburg Festival (she sang already in 1922 when the first operas of the Salzburg Festival ), where it mainly in Mozart , but also acted as a concert singer operas, underlined its extraordinary significance.

In the first years Lotte Schöne focused on Mozart's roles. She was celebrated as Cherubino in Figaro's wedding , Despina in Così fan tutte , Pamina in Die Zauberflöte and Zerlina in Don Giovanni . The lyrical parts were added later. Among other things, she sang Liu in Puccini's Turandot (at the respective national premieres in Berlin and London in 1927) and Mélisande in Pelléas et Mélisande . The latter was also celebrated in 1930 at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.

When the National Socialists came to power , Lotte Schöne had to leave Germany as a Jew. She went to Paris, where she was engaged at both the Opéra-Comique and the Grand Opéra . Until 1935 she was also able to perform at the Salzburg Festival. Concert tours through France, Holland and Switzerland were still possible at this time. But when the German troops invaded France in 1940, all she could do was flee to a small village in the French Alps, where she hid and struggled to survive the war. After this time, she was never able to continue her previous career. Until 1953 she performed occasionally as a concert singer, then she lived as a singing teacher in Paris. From her heyday only recordings remained, some of which are now available as compact discs or MP3 downloads and provide information about her magical voice. But what, as contemporary witnesses report, only made up part of your outstanding personality. In a French concert review in 1930 it says: “With Schubert and Schumann, with Hugo Wolff and Brahms, also with Liszt, she changed from cheerfulness to emotion, from grace to capricious lightness, varied the color of her expression, the eloquence of her style, hers witty facial expressions - because the mobility of her beautiful face is an additional attraction - and repeatedly showed other facets of her wonderfully smooth voice. "

Most reference works give Lotte Schöne's year of birth as 1891. The musicologist Anna Langenbruch reports, however, that Lotte Schöne's French naturalization file contains a notarized replacement for the lost birth certificate, in which the year 1893 is given as the year of birth. According to Langenbruch, the date of death was possibly given a day later than usual.

Games (selection)

Vienna

Berlin

Salzburg

Paris

  • Marcelline in Fidelio
  • Melisande in Pelléas et Mélisande
  • Adele in Die Fledermaus

Discography (selection)

  • Schöne and Tauber in Operetta , Nimbus / Edel, Hamburg 2010
  • The Art of Lotte Schöne (recordings 1924–1931), double CD, Preiser / Naxos, Vienna 1997
  • Lotte Schöne Arien , Pavilion / Preiser, Vienna 2006
  • Donizetti The Supreme Operatic Recordings (recordings 1920–1932), including Lotte Schöne: See me ready (Don Pasquale), Pavilion / Preiser, Vienna 2006
  • ABC of the Art of Singing, Part 6 (double CD), including Lotte Schöne: The Shepherd on the Rock (Schubert), Signore ascolta (Turandot), Your mother should carry you in her arms (Madame Butterfly), Cantus-Line DA-Music, Diepholz 2002
  • Four Famous Sopranos Of The Past (Lotte Schöne, Fritzi Jokl, Irene Eisinger, Luise Szabo), Preiser / Naxos, Vienna 1998
  • Golden Operetta (recordings 1926–1938), in it Lotte Schöne: Mein Herr what would you think of me (Die Fledermaus), Vienna, Preiser 1997
  • Unforgotten voices of the Vienna State Opera (4 CD set), in it Lotte Schöne: Mit rigid face (A masked ball), Preiser / Naxos, Vienna 1997

literature

  • André Tubeuf: Lotte Schoene . In: The Record Collector Volume XX, Number 4. Ipswich 1971 <in English; also contains a role directory and a discography>
  • Schöne, Lotte In: Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . 3rd, expanded edition, volume 4. Munich, KG Saur 1999. ISBN 3-598-11419-2
  • Piotr Szalsza : Beautiful, Lotte. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .
  • Lotte Schöne . In: Hannes Heer, Jürgen Kesting, Peter Schmidt (editor): Silent voices. The expulsion of the "Jews" from the opera 1933 to 1945. The fight for the Hessian State Theater in Darmstadt. Berlin, Metropol 2009. ISBN 978-3-940938-54-1 .
  • Anne Langenbuch: Lotte Schöne . In: University of Music and Theater Hamburg: MUGi - Music and Gender on the Internet (www.mugi.hfmt-hamburg.de).
  • Karin Nusko: Lotte Schöne In: Documentation Center for Women's Research at the Institute for Science and Art, Vienna: biografiA.at. Biographical database and lexicon of Austrian women (www.biografia.at).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schöne, Lotte Sopran in: KJ Kutsch / Leo Riemens: Large Singer Lexicon, 3rd Extended Edition, Munich KG Saur 1997–2000
  2. ^ Henri de Curzon, quoted in Anna Langenbruch: Lotte Schöne, in: University of Music and Theater Hamburg: MUGi - Music and Gender on the Internet
  3. ^ Anne Langenbuch: Lotte Schöne in: University of Music and Theater Hamburg: MUGi - Music and Gender on the Internet
personal data
SURNAME Nice, Lotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bodenstein, Charlotte (maiden name); Schönwälder, Lotte; Flandrak, Lotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian opera and lieder singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 22nd December 1977
Place of death Bobigny near Paris