Lydia Kindermann

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Lydia Kindermann (born September 21, 1892 in Lodz , Poland , † December 4, 1953 in Vienna ) was an Argentine opera singer ( mezzo-soprano / alto ) who had to flee first to Prague and then to Buenos Aires before the Nazi regime.

Life

Both the artist's place of birth ( Vienna or Łódź ) and place of death are unclear. She made her debut in 1917 at the Theater von Teplitz-Schönau (Teplice). This was followed by engagements at the Graz Opera , the Württemberg State Opera in Stuttgart and in 1926/27 at the Cologne Opera . There she sang in the world premiere of Arthur Honegger's biblical drama Judith . From 1927 to 1931 Kindermann belonged to the ensemble of the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden and sang there, among other things, in the world premiere of Umberto Giordano's Il Re . Guest appearances have taken her to Amsterdam, Barcelona, ​​Madrid and Paris. As a concert singer, she was particularly successful in Amsterdam, where she was heard several times as a soloist with the Concertgebouw Orchestra under Willem Mengelberg . In 1931 she was in the movie The case of Mr. OF of Alexis Granovsky to see.

As early as 1932 - "possibly because of the increasing anti-Semitic agitation" - she went to Prague, where she belonged to the ensemble of the Deutsches Theater for six years . There she sang a broad spectrum of roles, ranging from Mozart's Marzelline (in Le nozze di Figaro ) to Verdi's Ulrica (in the masked ball ) and numerous Wagner roles up to the world premiere of Ernst Krenek's Karl V. Her Wagner roles included Fricka and Waltraute (in the Walküre ), Brangäne (in Tristan and Isolde ) and the Ortrud (in Lohengrin ). In 1937 she made her first and most successful guest appearance alongside Max Lorenz as Magdalene in the Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires . Erich Kleiber conducted it . On September 22, 1938 she was on stage for the last time in Prague, as Amelie in Verdi's setting of Schiller Luisa Miller . The performance scheduled for the 29th was canceled due to the so-called Sudeten crisis , on October 1st German troops crossed the borders of Czechoslovakia and annexed parts of the national territory. Lydia Kindermann fled to South America.

She accepted Kleiber's invitation and sang at the Teatro Colón for the next ten years, but also gave recitals and orchestral concerts in a number of Argentine cities, Chile and Uruguay. In 1939 she took on the Argentine citizenship, in 1940 she sang the alto solo in Beethoven's Ninth under Arturo Toscanini - with bass Alexander Kipnis and tenor René Maison . In addition to Ortrud, Brangäne, Fricka and Waltraute (also in Götterdämmerung ), as well as Verdi's Ulrica, she also sang Geneviève (in Pelléas et Mélisande ), Mrs. Quickly (in Falstaff ), Erda (in Rheingold ), and Klytämnestra at Colón (in Elektra ) and the Iokaste (in Oedipus Rex ), the latter in 1942 under the direction of Juan José Castro . Three series of performances at the Colón were particularly popular with the public and the press: Tristan und Isolde with Helen Traubel and Lauritz Melchior , conducted by Fritz Busch , Daphne with Rose Bampton and Anton Dermota , conducted by Kleiber (Kindermann sang the Gaea), and finally one in 1948 luxuriously cast Götterdämmerung with Kirsten Flagstad , Set Svanholm , Hans Hotter , Rose Bampton, Ludwig Weber and Lydia Kindermann, again conducted by Erich Kleiber.

In 1949 the singer returned to Vienna and worked as a singing teacher. Nina Carini and Myrtha Garbarini were among her students . In 1953 she fell ill with a brain tumor that had already been operated on and died shortly afterwards.

Their final resting place is in the Neustift cemetery in Vienna (grave already abandoned).

Sound document

literature

  • Enzo Valenti Ferro, Las voces del Teatro Colón , 1982, 210
  • Hannes Heer ; Jürgen Kesting ; Peter Schmidt : Silent voices: the Bayreuth Festival and the "Jews" from 1876 to 1945; an exhibition . Bayreuth Festival Park and Exhibition Hall New Town Hall Bayreuth, July 22nd to October 14th, 2012. Berlin: Metropol, 2012 ISBN 978-3-86331-087-5 , 40

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hannes Heer ; Jürgen Kesting ; Peter Schmidt : Silent voices: the Bayreuth Festival and the "Jews" from 1876 to 1945; an exhibition. Metropol 2012, ISBN 978-3-86331-087-5 .
personal data
SURNAME Kindermann, Lydia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian opera singer (mezzo-soprano / alto)
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Lodz , Poland
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1953
Place of death Vienna