Maria Rajdl

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Maria Rajdl ( November 13, 1900 in Vienna - February 1, 1972 in Oslo ) was an opera singer with a soprano voice who appeared at the Vienna State Opera and the Salzburg Festival .

Life

There is little information about Maria Rajdl. Her engagement at the Vienna State Opera from 1920 to 1926 is guaranteed, where she made her debut in the title role of Madama Butterfly . In the Haus am Ring she sang numerous small, medium and large roles, for example 19 times the composer in Ariadne auf Naxos , 17 times as Juliette in Die tote Stadt , 15 times as Susanne in Le nozze di Figaro , 12 times as die Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi and Marie in the Bartered Bride 9 times . In Engelbert Humperdinck's fairy tale opera Hansel and Gretel , she embodied Gretel eleven times. She also appeared in operas by Cornelius , d'Albert , Pfitzner , Wagner and Zemlinsky . During the Paris guest appearance by the State Opera in 1924, she sang Susanne and Zerlina twice in Mozart's Da Ponte operas . Kutsch / Riemens point to "a varied repertoire" of the singer, which ranged from Mozart to contemporary composers and included roles in German, French, Italian and Slavonic subjects. Rajdl sang roles as diverse as Frasquita and Judith, the title characters in Smetana's Bartered Bride, Puccini's Madama Butterfly and Salome , as well as Sophie and Susanna, Eva in Wagner's Meistersinger von Nürnberg and the composer's trouser role.

At the Salzburg Festival in 1926 she took over the Zerlina in Don Giovanni and the composer in Ariadne auf Naxos, and in 1928 Pamina in the Magic Flute . In the 1926-27 season she was engaged at the Hamburg City Theater , after which she was a member of the ensemble of the Semperoper in Dresden until 1931 . There she took over the role of Aithra in the world premiere of the Egyptian Helena by Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss on June 6, 1928 . In the same year she also appeared in the German premiere of the opera Sly by Giovacchino Forzano and Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari in Dresden . She sang the role of Dolly. During her engagement in Dresden, the singer also took on a number of guest appearances: she returned to the Vienna State Opera in 1927 as Sophie im Rosenkavalier and in 1928 as Aithra in the Egyptian Helena . In the 1928-29 season, Rajdl was also engaged at the Städtische Oper in Berlin. In the 1930–31 season she was a guest at the Chicago Opera.

Rajdl was married to the Norwegian tenor Karl Aagard Østvig (1889–1968), who was the first tenor at the Vienna State Opera from 1919 to 1926 and then made guest appearances in Budapest, Hamburg and Berlin. The couple went to Norway in 1932. Both worked there as singing teachers , Østvig also directed at the Oslo Opera House. After the occupation of Norway by the German Wehrmacht , her husband took over the management of the Oslo Opera House . After the end of the occupation he was therefore imprisoned as a collaborator ( Quisling ) for a while.

The couple had a daughter, Lillemarie Østvig , who mainly worked as a concert singer .

Important roles

Bartók :

Beethoven :

Bizet :

Engelbert Humperdinck :

Grain gold :

Meyerbeer

Mozart :

 

Puccini :

Smetana :

Johann Strauss :

  • Felicita in the bat

Richard Strauss :

Wolf :

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References and comments

  1. ↑ The specified number of performances is a minimum, as the cast lists of the Vienna State Opera have not been fully recorded until 1955. (As of October 2016)
  2. ↑ a b K. J. Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singing dictionary . Unchanged edition. KG Saur, Bern, 1993, second volume MZ, ISBN 3-907820-70-3 , p. 5187.
  3. ↑ KJ Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Unchanged edition. KG Saur, Bern, 1993, second volume MZ, ISBN 3-907820-70-3 , p. 3823f.
personal data
SURNAME Rajdl, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1972
Place of death Oslo