Maria Reining

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Maria Reining's tomb in the Dornbach cemetery

Maria Reining (born August 7, 1903 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; † March 11, 1991 in Deggendorf ) was an Austrian opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Reining initially worked as an employee in a Viennese bank. It was only at the age of 28 in 1931 that she began her singing career at the Vienna State Opera , mostly in soubrette roles . Two years later she moved to Darmstadt and then to the Munich State Opera , where she made her debut under Hans Knappertsbusch as Elsa in Lohengrin by Richard Wagner . In 1937 she followed Knappertsbusch to the Vienna State Opera, where she made her debut a second time in the role of Elsa.

Maria Reining was a member of the Vienna State Opera from 1931 to 1933 and from 1937 to 1957. From 1937 to 1941 she sang with great success at the Salzburg Festival , among others under Arturo Toscanini and in 1938 in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg under Wilhelm Furtwängler .

She mainly sang roles by Mozart , Wagner and Richard Strauss . Guest performances have taken her to the leading European opera houses. Among other things, she sang at the Covent Garden Opera in London and at La Scala in Milan .

Maria Reining died in 1991 in Deggendorf, Lower Bavaria, and was buried in an honorary grave in the Dornbacher Friedhof in Vienna (group 35, number 132).

There are several complete opera recordings with Reining, including a. Arabella (Salzburg 1947 under Böhm), ​​Daphne (Vienna 1944, Böhm), ​​Ariadne (Vienna 1944, Böhm), ​​Leonora (Troubadour) (Reichssenderorchester Stuttgart 1936, Zimmermann), Eva (Vienna 1937, Toscanini) and the Marschallin (Salzburg 1949, Szell; Salzburg 1953, Krauss, Vienna 1954 (studio), Kleiber; Vienna 1955, Knappertsbusch).

Roles (selection)

Beethoven :

Bizet :

  • Micaëla and Frasquita in Carmen

d'Albert :

Engelbert Humperdinck :

Grain gold :

Lehár :

Lortzing :

Mozart :

Nicolai :

Puccini :

 

Smetana :

Johann Strauss :

Tchaikovsky :

Richard Strauss :

Soup :

Verdi :

Wagner :

Weber :

Sound documents (selection)

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Inscription Deutschordenshof, Singerstraße: Maria Reining 1964 (accessed June 10, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Reining, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1991
Place of death Deggendorf