Marianna Radev

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Marianna Radev , also Marijana Radev , (born November 21, 1913 in Constanța (Romania), † September 17, 1973 in Zagreb ) was a Yugoslav - Croatian contralto. Radev was considered one of the great contralto players in the period after the Second World War . Above all, she has earned a great reputation for herself in Italy and Berlin “because of her rich, expressive and apparently deeply never-ending alto voice”.

Radev was born on September 21, 1913 to Croatian parents in Constanța, Romania. She studied piano and singing at the Zagreb Music Academy . She then had her voice trained in Milan and Trieste with Riccardo Stracciari, among others . In 1937 she made her debut as Marina in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunow at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste. From 1938 she sang at the Teatro Reale in Rome, and from 1940 at the Zagreb Opera. After the Second World War she made guest appearances at La Scala in Milan , Rome and Vienna. From 1959 to 1961 she was a member of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich . She was celebrated as a valued contralto at guest appearances in the world's major music centers (Vienna, Munich, Berlin, Paris, London, Buenos Aires, Moscow).

She participated in the recordings of Verdi's Requiem , Beethoven's Missa solemnis and Rossini's Stabat mater for the Deutsche Grammophon label . Her recordings under Ferenc Fricsay (especially the Verdi Requiem and the Orff recordings) and under Karl Böhm are very popular among record collectors and music connoisseurs. "Her repertoire was wide-ranging and eclectic, and her song recordings in particular show the artist's emotional and inter-interpretational maturity."

Most recently the artist lived in her Croatian homeland, where she occasionally gave concerts. She died on September 30, 1973 during a rehearsal for a baroque concert.

literature

  • Friedrich Herzfeld: Ullstein Lexicon of Music . Radev, Marianna. 6th edition. Ullstein GmbH, Frankfurt a. M. 1973, p. 433 .
  • Wilibald Gurlitt, Carl Dahlhaus (editor): Riemann Musik-Lexikon. In three volumes and two supplementary volumes. Radev, Marianna. 12th completely revised edition. 2. Person part L – ZB Schotts-Söhne, Mainz 1959, p. 457 (first edition: 1882).
  • Wilibald Gurlitt, Carl Dahlhaus (editor): Riemann Musik-Lexikon. In three volumes and two supplementary volumes. Radev, Marianne (Marianna, Marijana). 12th completely revised edition. 5. Supplementary volume, personal section L – ZB Schotts-Söhne, Mainz 1972, p. 437 (first edition: 1882).
  • Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Electronic edition of the third, expanded edition. Bern and Munich 1999/2000. Directmedia, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89853-433-2 , Radev, Marianna, Alt.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b operalounge.de
personal data
SURNAME Radev, Marianna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Radev, Marijana; Radev, Marianne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav-Croatian contralto
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Constanța (Romania)
DATE OF DEATH 17th September 1973
Place of death Zagreb