Margarete Bäumer

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Margarete Henriette Therese Roßkopf-Bäumer (born May 26, 1898 in Düsseldorf , † December 1969 in Inning am Ammersee ) was a German opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Margarete Bäumer had her soprano voice trained in Düsseldorf and Cologne and made her debut in 1920 at the Stadttheater Barmen (later the Wuppertal Opera House ). After stints in Düsseldorf, Zurich, Stuttgart, Berlin ( Städtische Oper ), Nuremberg and Mannheim, she came to the Leipzig Opera House in 1934 , where she quickly became a crowd favorite and then worked as a leading dramatic soprano until 1953. At the same time she had engagements at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich (1934-1937) and at the Breslau Opera .

Margarete Bäumer switched to the dramatic subject at the Stuttgart State Opera in the mid-1920s and from then on was increasingly celebrated as a Wagner singer. On the occasion of an engagement with the German Grand Opera Society in New York, she performed on a tour of all major stages in North America. Countless guest performances at the opera houses in Europe followed in addition to her permanent engagements. She sang - primarily in Wagner roles - in Vienna ( State Opera ), Brussels, Dresden ( State Opera ), Basel, Geneva, Paris, Barcelona, ​​Zurich, Prague, Riga, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Venice, Palermo, Turin and others Palermo. She performed at the Munich Opera Festival in 1935 (as Elektra) and 1936 (as Brünnhilde), and at the Sopot Festival in 1938 (as Brünnhilde).

Margarete Bäumer continued to perform from 1954 (one last time in Leipzig in 1960), but from that year she mainly worked as a professor at the Leipzig University of Music. In 1967 she moved to Inning am Ammersee, West Germany, where she died in 1969.

Margarete Bäumer was already one of the most important Wagner singers of her generation during her lifetime. New releases of historical recordings and MP3 releases on music portals still herald this today.

Games (selection)

Discography

  • Richard Wagner: Tristan and Isolde , Gewandhausorchester Leipzig under Franz Konwitschny, a. a. with Margarete Bäumer. Recording Leipzig 1950, 3-CD box, Preiser / Naxos 2001
  • Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser , complete recording, choir and orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera under Robert Heger, a. a. with Margarete Bäumer, recording Munich 1951, 3-CD box, membrane 2006 and 3-CD box Preiser / Naxos 2002
  • Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier , complete recording, choir of the Dresden State Opera and Dresden State Orchestra under Rudolf Kempe, a. a. with Margarete Bäumer, recording Dresden 21. – 23. December 1950; 3-CD box, Gala, 2007, GL 100.633
  • ABC of the art of singing. Historical song lexicon part 1 (double CD), Cantus-Line DA-Music, Diepholz 2002
  • Great Singers Sing Wagner , with Margarete Bäumer, among others, 10-CD box, Membran Documents 2003
  • Four German Sopranos of the Past , Margarete Bäumer, Emmy Bettendorf, Karion Branzell, Irene Eisinger. Margarete Bäumer sings: You now know the wicked (Don Juan) and Siegmund, look at me (Walküre), Preiser Records, Vienna 2006
  • Margarete Bäumer . With arias from Tannhäuser, Götterdämmerung, Tiefland, Don Diovanni and Fidelio. Hamburg Archive for Singing Art, Hamburg 2007

Web links

  • Brief portrait and press reviews on Margarete Bäumer on www.opernnetz.de
  • Margarete Bäumer: Did you experience my disgrace (Tristan and Isolde) YouTube
  • Margarete Bäumer: Mild and quiet (Tristan and Isolde) YouTube
  • Margarete Bäumer and Ludwig Suthaus: O sink hernieder (Tristan and Isolde) YouTube
  • Margarete Bäumer and Ludwig Suthaus: Mr. Tristan come close (Tristan and Isolde) YouTube
  • Margarete Bäumer and Ludwig Suthaus: Was Morold so worthy of you (Tristan and Isolde) YouTube
  • Margarete Bäumer at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The date of birth and full name are based on the personal file as a professor filled in by the singer herself in 1950 (archive of the University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy", formerly Leipzig University of Music). The Great Singer Lexicon (see individual record 2) names 25 May 1898 as the date of birth. Neither one nor the other date can be verified according to the Düsseldorf registry office.
  2. ↑ Career data according to: Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Großes Sängerlexikon . Electronic edition of the third, expanded edition. Directmedia, Berlin 2004
personal data
SURNAME Bäumer, Margarete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roßkopf-Bäumer, Margarete Henriette Therese (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH December 1969
Place of death Inning am Ammersee