Marianne Fischer-Kupfer

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Marianne Fischer-Kupfer (born May 17, 1922 in Chemnitz ; † September 8, 2008 in Wandlitz ) was a German opera singer ( soprano ) and singing teacher .

Life

Marianne Fischer attended high school in Chemnitz . She received private singing training from Ada Pfanner-Drießen in Chemnitz, from Rudolf Dittrich in Dresden and from Tiana Lemnitz and Dorothea von Zur Mühlen in Berlin . She sang on German opera stages as a soprano under the musical direction of conductors such as Rudolf Kempe and Erich Kleiber . After the Second World War she was imprisoned in special camp No. 1 in Mühlberg .

Her stage career began in 1950 at the Dresden Semperoper , of which she was a member until 1955. She made her stage debut in November 1950 at the Dresden State Opera as Kate Linkerton in Madama Butterfly . She mainly sang the role of the opera soubrette . Her roles included Frasquita in Carmen , Gretel in Hansel and Gretel , Europa in Die Liebe der Danae , Gianetta in Der Liebestrank and Xenia in Boris Godunow .

From 1955 to 1960 she was a member of the Berlin State Opera , followed by guest appearances in various countries, where she excelled as a concert and oratorio singer. She has given guest performances as an oratorio singer in Lübeck , Kassel , Bochum and Bonn, among others .

Under the direction of the opera director Harry Kupfer , her future husband, she sang Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte at the theater of the Werftstadt Stralsund in the 1958/59 season . After the marriage to Kupfer and the birth of a daughter in 1960, today's actress Kristiane Kupfer , Marianne Fischer-Kupfer worked as a singing teacher at the Weimar Academy of Music and the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden .

As early as 1975 Walter Felsenstein tried to engage Fischer-Kupfer as a singing teacher at the Komische Oper Berlin . In 1981 she moved to the Komische Oper Berlin together with Harry Kupfer, where she was responsible for looking after the next generation of singers and for more than 21 years for technical questions. For these services, the Komische Oper awarded her honorary membership in 2002 .

Recordings made with Fischer copper were published by the GDR record label Eterna . Radio recordings were made with the Northwest German Broadcasting Corporation, among others . In 1954 she sang the soprano part in the oratorio The Face of Isaiah by Willy Burkhard with the NWDR .

Her best-known student is the countertenor Jochen Kowalski , whom she moved in 1981 to switch from tenor to countertenor. Her students include the tenor Andreas Conrad , the Israeli countertenor Zvi Emanuel-Marial, the baritone Daniel Ochoa , the countertenor Tim Severloh and the coloratura soprano Katharina Richter .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Seeger : Opernlexikon A – J , p. 313 specifies D. Zur Mühlen as Marianne Fischer-Kupfer's singing teacher. It can be assumed that this is the vocal teacher Dorothea von Zur Mühlen.
  2. ↑ Harry Kupfer : Musiktheater , p. 5. (excerpts from Google Books)
  3. ↑ Tim Severloh , pdf, on countertenors.tripod.com, accessed May 19, 2011
  4. ↑ Homepage Katharina Richter
personal data
SURNAME Fischer-Kupfer, Marianne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischer, Marianne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (soprano) and singing teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 2008
Place of death Wandlitz