Margit Kobeck-Peters

Margit Kobeck-Peters (* 1933 ) is a German opera singer ( mezzo-soprano ) and singing teacher .

Life

Margit Kobeck-Peters began her career in 1957 at the Graz Opera House and then became a member of the Wuppertal Opera House from 1960 .

In 1960 she worked as Grimgerde ( Die Walküre ) at the Bayreuth Festival .

From 1962 to 1965 she was engaged again in Graz, after which she did not accept any further permanent engagement, instead, until the mid-1970s she worked exclusively as a guest at various theaters in Germany and Austria .

Margit Kobeck-Peters later worked as a singing professor at the Cologne University of Music , where u. a. Frieder Lang was her student.

repertoire

The singer's repertoire included a. the Azucena in Giuseppe Verdi's Trovatore , the Amneris in Aida by the same composer, the Fricka , the Grimgerde and the Waltraute in Richard Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen , the Brangäne in Tristan and Isolde , the wet nurse in Richard Strauss ' opera Frau ohne Schatten and the Herodias in Salome . She also sang Countess Geschwitz in Lulu by Alban Berg , Judith in Duke Bluebeard's Castle by Béla Bartók and Auntie in Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes .

Web links

• Margit Kobeck-Peters in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
• Margit Kobeck-Peters at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
• Margit Kobeck-Peters on the website of the Bayreuth Festival