Marie Basta

Marie Basta in 1887

Marie Basta , actually Maria Louise Pollak , née Schmidt , later Pascalides and Tavary ( May 4, 1854 in Cologne - after 1899) was a German opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Basta, the daughter of the artist couple Bernhard Schmidt and Louise Kellberg , made her debut in 1872 in a soubrette role at the Weimar Court Theater. She took lessons with either Giovanni Battista Lamperti or Francesco Lamperti in Milan, with Mathilde Marchesi in Vienna and in Paris with Gustav Roger . After studying for two years, she became a member of the Prague Opera, then the Hamburg City Theater, went on a tour through Sweden and Norway, in order to take a position in a preferred position at the City Theater in Cologne in 1878. Afterwards the artist worked at the Bavarian court stage from 1880 to 1888. In 1880 she gave several guest performances at the Augsburg Theater . After the contract expired, she no longer accepted a fixed engagement and only appeared on stages as a guest. At the beginning of the 1890s she went to the USA , had her own touring ensemble with the "Grand English Opera Company" and worked there until at least 1899. In the USA she called herself Marie Tavary. Her further life is unknown.

Her first marriage was to the opera singer Eduard Basta , and the second time to a Mr. Pascalides. Her sister-in-law was the opera singer Julie Basta .

literature

Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 53 f., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Marie Basta in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO) (with wrong date of death)
Marie Basta at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Hamburg Marriage Register, No. 1230/1877.
↑ Max Herre (ed.): The city theater Augsburg. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary by order of the city. Edited by Dr. Max Herre. Augsburg, 1927, self-published by the city of Augsburg, with appendix, p. 60.

personal data
SURNAME	Basta, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pollak, Maria Louise (real name); Schmidt, Maria Louise (maiden name); Pascalides, Marie (married name); Tavary, Marie (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH	May 4, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne
DATE OF DEATH	after 1899

[:0-1] Hamburg Marriage Register, No. 1230/1877.

[2] Max Herre (ed.): The city theater Augsburg. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary by order of the city. Edited by Dr. Max Herre. Augsburg, 1927, self-published by the city of Augsburg, with appendix, p. 60.