Margarete Herzberg
Margarete Herzberg (born February 10, 1921 in Osnabrück , † March 29, 2007 in Woltersdorf ) was a German opera singer (mezzo-soprano).
Life
The daughter of the double bass player and military musician ( tuba ) Julius Herzberg studied singing with Gertrud Bartsch at the Leipzig Conservatory .
The mezzo-soprano was a member of the ensemble of the Altenburg State Theater . Herzberg later belonged together with Philine Fischer , Günther Leib , Werner Enders , Helmuth Kaphahn and others to the singing ensemble of the Handel Festival in Halle (Saale) . She was awarded the first Handel Prize in 1956 , together with the collective of the first Poros production at the Handel Festival under the musical direction of Horst-Tanu Margraf . The production is available as a reproduced CD from the Berlin Classics label . Herzberg was engaged at the Rostock Volkstheater and later freelanced.
Herzberg sang Abigail in Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi at the Leipzig Opera House , accompanied by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Rolf Reuter , and Salome in Richard Strauss' opera of the same name at the Weimar and Dessau opera houses. Her repertoire included Ortrud ( Richard Wagner : Lohengrin ), Cherubino ( Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : The Marriage of Figaro ), Venus (Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser and the Singer's War on the Wartburg ), Oktavian ( Richard Strauss : Der Rosenkavalier ), Carmen ( Georges Bizet ), Hansel (Engelbert Humperdinck: "Hansel and Gretel") and many others.
In the concert field, Herzberg worked with the conductors Herbert Kegel and Ekkehard Tietze, among others . She sang the alto parts in Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio BWV 248, in the cantatas BWV 79 “Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild” and BWV 172 Sound out, you songs, you sound, you strings! , in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem in D minor KV 626 and Ludwig van Beethoven's Mass in C major op.86.
Margarete Herzberg was married to the author and dramaturge Horst Enders . Her grandson is the conductor Fabian Enders . Margarete Enders, who kept her maiden name Herzberg as a stage name during her active time, lived in Schöneiche near Berlin from 1963 until her death in 2007. Her grave is in the forest cemetery in Schöneiche .
Web links
- Works by and about Margarete Herzberg in the catalog of the German National Library
- Margarete Herzberg at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Margarete Herzberg ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the Handel Festival website, as seen May 31, 2010
- ↑ Chronicle - Fabian Enders. Retrieved July 8, 2020 (German).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Herzberg, Margarete |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (mezzo-soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Osnabrück |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 29, 2007 |
| Place of death | Woltersdorf |