Marie Haupt

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Marie Haupt at the Bayreuth Festival 1876 (postcard)

Marie Haupt , actually Maria Berta Emilia Haupt , ( April 18, 1849 in Danzig , Deutscher Bund - 1928 in Leipzig ) was a German opera singer with a soprano voice . She was a guest at the Bayreuth Festival in 1876 ​​and was married to the heroic tenor Georg Unger .

life and work

Marie Haupt was the eldest daughter of the Danzig pianist Louis Haupt and his wife Ottilie, née Focke. She was baptized on June 24, 1849, godmothers were her grandmother Amalia Focke, née Botzon, Princess Maria von Hohenzollern-Hechingen, after whom Marie Haupt was also named, the city secretary Ludwig Botzon and the merchant Wilhelm Voigt. She had four siblings. Marie Haupt also embarked on a musical career. She traveled to Berlin and Paris for her singing studies. In the Prussian metropolis she took lessons from the German tenor Eduard Mantius and in France from the celebrated mezzo-soprano Pauline Viardot-García . According to Jerzy Marian Michalak, she made her operatic debut in 1869 at the Stadttheater Danzig , but according to Kutsch / Riemens it was not until 1870 at the Mecklenburgisch-Strelitzschen Hoftheater in Neustrelitz . An engagement at the City Theater of Szczecin followed . Then there are again discrepancies: Michalak names a call to the Bavarian Court Opera in Munich, Kutsch / Riemens, however, name the Berlin Court Opera for the season 1873–1874 - and an engagement "during the summer at the Kroll Opera in Berlin". From 1873 and 1874 to 1877, the singer was engaged at the court theater in Kassel , then until 1880 at the city theater of Mainz.

In Kassel she was able to present the breadth of her repertoire, which ranged from coloratura parts in the soprano to more dramatic mezzo parts . In the German subject she sang Ännchen in Weber's Freischütz , Frau Fluth in Nicolas Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor or Venus in Wagner's Tannhäuser , in the Italian subject Elvira in Bellini's Puritans and Marie in Donizetti's regimental daughter , in the French subject the trouser role of Urbain in Meyerbeer's Huguenots .

In 1876 she was invited by Richard Wagner to take part in the first Bayreuth Festival . This year the first complete performance of the Ring des Nibelungen took place . Marie Haupt sang Freia in Rheingold , Gerhild, one of the Valkyries, in Valkyrie and the Waldvogel in Siegfried . In 1876 she married the Wagner singer Georg Unger (1837–1887), who was also engaged at the first Bayreuth Festival, as Froh and Siegfried. After the wedding she appeared as Marie Unger-Haupt, but she soon ended her stage career. From 1877 onwards it only appeared rarely. From 1882 she worked as a singing teacher in Leipzig.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The pianist Louis Haupt in Danzig musical life 1843–1887. In: Jerzy Marian Michalak: Essays on the music and theater history of Danzig from the 17th to the 20th century. Volume 8, Frank & Timme, 2012, p. 217 and p. 224.
  2. ^ Cooperative of German Stage Members: 1907. New Theater Almanach. Berlin 1907, p. 240. (books.google.co.uk)
personal data
SURNAME Haupt, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haupt, Maria Berta Emilia (full name); Unger-Haupt, Marie (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH 1928
Place of death Leipzig