Mary of Ilosvay

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Maria von Ilosvay (born May 8, 1913 in Budapest , † June 16, 1987 in Hamburg ) was a Hungarian opera singer ( alto ).

Life

Maria von Ilosvay studied singing at the Budapest Conservatory with Laura Hilgermann , Felicie Kaschowska (1872–1951) and Mária Budanowicz (1884–1976) and at the Vienna University of Music . In 1937 she won first prize at the International Singing Competition in Vienna. From October 1937 to March 1938 she toured North America with the Salzburg Opera Guild , where she caused a sensation as Dorabella in Così fan tutte . She also appeared in the one-act plays Le pauvre matelot by Darius Milhaud and Angelique by Jacques Ibert and in a version of the opera L'incoronazione di Poppea edited by Ernst Krenek .

In 1940 she was engaged at the Hamburg State Opera , of which she remained a permanent member of the ensemble until her stage departure in the early 1970s. Here she sang the great dramatic alto parts in the operas of Georges Bizet , Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner for many years . On November 2, 1965, she took part in the world premiere of the opera Jacobowsky and Colonel von Giselher Klebe . In 1967/1968 she sang the small, but dramaturgically not unimportant role of the theater cloakroom in the production of Günther Rennert in Hamburg in the two-act version of Lulu alongside Anneliese Rothenberger in the title role. On January 13, 1970, von Ilosvay was one of the first cast of the opera Der Siegebedingungen by Milko Kelemen .

From 1947 to 1949 Maria von Ilosvay sang regularly at the Vienna State Opera . She performed there as Carmen , as Maddalena in Rigoletto , Ulrica in A Masked Ball and as 3rd Lady in the opera Die Zauberflöte .

She also made a guest appearance at the Salzburg Festival in 1948 and 1949 . In 1948 she starred in Salzburg in the scenic premiere of the oratorio Le vin herbé of Frank Martin as the mother of Iseult with. In 1948 she sang the Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro alternately with Elisabeth Höngen . In 1949 she was the Ismene in the world premiere of the opera Antigonae .

In 1953 Maria von Ilosvay sang for the first time at the Bayreuth Festival . From 1953 to 1958 she was a permanent member of the Bayreuth Festival. There she took over both the major mezzo-soprano and alto roles in Richard Wagner's musical dramas , as well as smaller roles. From 1953–1958 she sang Erda in Das Rheingold und Siegfried and from 1954–1957 Waltraute in Götterdämmerung . She also appeared in Bayreuth as Floßhilde (1956), Schwertleite (1953-1958), 1st Norn (1953-1955, 1957) and 2nd Norn (1956) in the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen . In 1964 she sang the sword line again. In 1970 she took over Mary in Der Fliegende Holländer at short notice .

She has also made guest appearances at the Bavarian State Opera , the Stuttgart State Opera , the Milan Scala , the Covent Garden Opera (1955–1959, especially as Erda), the Edinburgh Festival and the Holland Festival .

Audio documents

There are only a few original studio recordings that document Maria von Ilosvay's voice on vinyl . For Philips she recorded two solo recitals with opera arias by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Giuseppe Verdi, Georges Bizet , Ambroise Thomas , Camille Saint-Saëns and Richard Wagner, which, however, soon disappeared from the record catalogs due to their format - they were 25 cm records. In 1953 she sang the part of the mother in the complete recording of the opera Hansel and Gretel under Herbert von Karajan . In 1955 the recording of the Messa da Requiem was made in Rome under the direction of Paul van Kempen . The other soloists were Gré Brouwenstijn , Petre Munteanu and Oskar Czerwenka .

However, there are numerous live recordings of operas and radio recordings . Numerous performances with Maria von Ilosvay, especially from the Bayreuth Festival, were recorded every year for radio and later published on records. Among other things, there are documented: The Ring of the Nibelung from 1953 with Clemens Krauss at the pult, from 1955 with Joseph Keilberth at the pult (Ilosvay among others as Erda) and from 1957 with Hans Knappertsbusch as conductor (Ilosvay as Erda and Waltraute among others). In the meantime, these performances have also been re-released on CD, often under various different record labels.

The Hamburg Lulu production was recorded in a performance recording from 1968 by EMI on record and meanwhile also on CD. A studio production of the Hamburg State Opera with Maria von Ilosvay has meanwhile been released on DVD on the Arthaus Musik label : ( Le Nozze di Figaro , in German, 1967, as Marcellina).

Maria von Ilosvay can be seen in radio recordings as Niklaus ( Hoffmanns Erzählungen , Cologne 1950), as Filipjewna ( Eugen Onegin , Norddeutscher Rundfunk 1952), as a dryad ( Ariadne auf Naxos , Westdeutscher Rundfunk 1954) and as the mother's voice ( Hoffmanns Erzählungen , Bayerischer Rundfunk 1956 ) to listen.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maria von Ilosvay ( Memento from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 888 kB) Vita in: CD booklet Lebendige Past (Preiser Records)
  2. ↑ List of roles by Maria von Ilosvay in: Chronik der Wiener Staatsoper 1945-2005 , p. 486. Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2006. ISBN 3-85409-449-3
  3. ↑ Maria von Ilosvay's roles directory  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Homepage of the Salzburg Festival (with search function)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.salzburgerfestspiele.at  
  4. ↑ Mary of Ilosvay . Vita on the website of the Bayreuth Festival
personal data
SURNAME Ilosvay, Maria of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian opera singer (alto)
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1987
Place of death Hamburg