Manfred Jungwirth

Manfred Jungwirth (born June 4, 1919 in St. Pölten ; † October 23, 1999 in Passau ) was an Austrian opera singer ( bass ).

Career

Jungwirth initially worked as a choirboy in the cathedral choir St. Pölten Cathedral . In his hometown he was taught by Alice Goldberg, in Vienna by Emilie Auer-Weißgerber, in Bucharest by Albert d'Andrée, in Munich by Rudolf Großmann and in Berlin by Josef Burgwinkel .

Jungwirth was not engaged in the Klagenfurt City Theater because he had to do military service. He made his debut at the Opera Națională Bucureşti . In 1942, and then again from the end of the war until 1949, he was engaged at the Landestheater Innsbruck , where he also studied musicology and obtained his doctorate in this discipline in 1948. From 1949 to 1954 and 1958 to 1961 and then from 1971 to 1982 he was a permanent guest at the Zurich Opera House . In between 1956/57 also in Wiesbaden , 1960 to 1968 in Frankfurt am Main and 1967 to 1985 at the Vienna State Opera .

Primarily he sang the bass buffo parts, operas by Domenico Cimarosa , Peter Cornelius , Friedrich von Flotow , Albert Lortzing , WA Mozart , Otto Nicolai , Gioacchino Rossini and Bedřich Smetana should be mentioned here. He also took on roles such as Rocco in Beethoven's Fidelio , but also some of Giuseppe Verdi , Richard Wagner and CM v. Weber .

At the age of around 30 he already took on the part of Ochs von Lerchenau in Richard Strauss ' Rosenkavalier , which he sang for the first time in Zurich in 1951/52 and then embodied on all the important stages. In 1974 he appeared at the Grand Théâtre de Genève as Osmin in Entführung aus dem Seraglio , and in other Swiss theaters as van Bett in Zar und Zimmermann .

But you could also find him in Berlin, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Düsseldorf / Duisburg), Hamburg, Cologne, London, Milan, Munich, New York, Paris, Rome, San Francisco, Stuttgart as well as at the Bregenz Festival , at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino , at the Glyndebourne Festival and at the Salzburg Festival .

Prices

• 1948 1st prize at the Concours international d'exécution musicale de Genève
• 1977 Viennese chamber singer

Filmography

• Fidelio , with Gundula Janowitz , Lucia Popp , René Kollo , Hans Sotin , Adolf Dallapozza , director: Otto Schenk , conductor: Leonard Bernstein , Vienna Philharmonic
• Der Rosenkavalier , with Benno Kusche , Brigitte Fassbaender , Gwyneth Jones , Lucia Popp , Anneliese Waas, David Thaw, Gudrun Wewezow, Francisco Araiza , director: Otto Schenk, conductor: Carlos Kleiber , orchestra and choir of the Bavarian State Opera ( Bayerische Staatsoper 1979)

literature

• Uwe Harten : Jungwirth, Manfred. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7001-3044-9 .
• Paul Suter: Manfred Jungwirth . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 948.
• Kutsch / Riemens 2000, vol. 33

Web links

• Manfred Jungwirth in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
• Manfred Jungwirth at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
• Manfred Jungwirth in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna

Individual evidence

1. ^ Manfred Jungwirth in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
2. ↑ Manfred Jungwirth: The historical function of the bass buffo in vocal lighting , Innsbruck, phil. Diss. 9 Sept. 1950, 91 sheets.