Marga Schiml

Marga Schiml

Marga Schiml (born November 29, 1945 in Weiden , Upper Palatinate ) is a German opera singer (mezzo-soprano).

Life

She studied singing with Professor Hanno Blaschke at the Munich University of Music . During her studies she received a scholarship from the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft. Her first engagement took the artist to Basel, from where she moved to the Zurich Opera House . As a result, she received another engagement at the National Theater in Munich , but apparently there were differences with the then artistic director Günther Rennert , which probably led to Marga Schiml's decision to work freelance.

Then Marga Schiml appeared at major European opera houses, e.g. B. at the Vienna State Opera , the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Hamburg State Opera, the Milan Scala , the Salzburg Festival Houses and Bayreuth. At La Scala she sang Dorabella in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Così fan tutte under the conductor Karl Böhm . Marga Schiml was also a festival guest at the “Maggio Musicale Florenz” or at the Bayreuth Festival , to whose ensemble she was part of for more than 10 years. She also sang Fricka ( Rheingold , Walküre ) in Turin, Olga ( Eugen Onegin ) in Bonn, Magdalena in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in Bonn, Hamburg, Barcelona and Bayreuth and Annina in Rosenkavalier at the Maggia Musicale in Florence.

Important conductors worked with Marga Schiml. She sang under Herbert von Karajan Cherubino, under Rafael Kubelik in Pelléas et Mélisande, under Wolfgang Sawallisch in The Marriage of Figaro and The Magic Flute , under Ferdinand Leitner in Salome.

Marga Schiml also worked as a concert interpreter. She sang Beethoven's 9th Symphony under Karajan, Beethoven 's Missa solemnis under Sawallisch , Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio under Karl Richter and the B minor Mass, and under Seiji Ozawa Gustav Mahler's 2nd, 3rd and 8th Symphonies, also under Gustav Kuhn , and under the direction of Otmar Suitner the Elias , with Fabio Luisi the Kindertotenlieder. She was also active as a singer with Helmuth Rilling .

Marga Schiml also recorded records, including from Bruckner masses under Eugen Jochum , from Carl Maria Weber's Oberon and under Rafael Kubelík , Mozart's Titus and under Karl Böhm, Solomon by Georg Friedrich Handel (Eterna) as well as radio and television productions.

The artist feels particularly connected to early music and lieder. Her repertoire ranges from Monteverdi, Gluck and Purcell to Mozart, Rossini, Bizet, Verdi, Wagner and Strauss to Stravinsky, Schönberg, Hindemith, Kalabis and Schnebel (premiere of the Dahlem Mass ).

In addition to her concert activities, Marga Schiml has been professor for singing at the Musikhochschule in Karlsruhe since 1987. In February 1999 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Marga Schiml has been retired since the end of 2011 and is training young singers.

Publications (selection)

• Symphony No. 2 in D major op.36, Beethoven, Berlin: Dt. Records, 1982
• Salomo, Handel, Hamburg: Edel Classics, c 2009
• The symphonies, Beethoven, Hamburg: Edel Classics, c 2008
• Oberon, Weber, Berlin: Universal Music, 2006
• Christmas oratorio, Bach, Holzgerlingen: Hänssler, 2001
• The Flying Dutchman, Wagner, Unterhaching: Naxos Germany, 1997
• Paradise and the Peri, Schumann, Hamburg: BMG Ariola, 1997

Web links

• Marga Schiml in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Marga Schiml homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ GND 132613123