Mathilde Fröhlich

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Mathilde Fröhlich (born July 19, 1867 in Vienna ; † November 8, 1934 ibid) was an Austrian opera singer with an alto voice .

Life

The daughter of the Viennese teacher Carl Fröhlich and his wife Antonie received her first musical training from her father. She studied from September 1879 with interruptions until 1888/89 at the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna . Her teachers included the singing teacher Selma Nicklass-Kempner (1850–1928) and, for the dramatic representation, Leo Friedrich (1842–1908).

Court opera singer in Dresden

On March 1, 1890, the graduate of the Vienna Conservatory sang a rehearsal at the Dresden Opera : The Orpheaus aria by Gluck “Oh I have lost them” and the blessing aria from the Prophet by Giacomo Meyerbeer . She made her debut on March 13, 1890 as "Fee Morgana" in Goldmark's opera Merlin . Mathilde Fröhlich worked at the Dresden Court Opera on March 20, 1901 together with the singers Friedrich Plaschke (* 1875), Charlotte Huhn (* 1865), Marie Wittich (* 1868), Ernst Wachter (* 1872), Rudolf Jäger (* 1875), Karl Scheidemantel (* 1859), Erika Wedekind (* 1868), Irene von Chavanne (* 1863) in the performance of the tragedy Nausicaa by August Bungert (1845–1915) from the cycle Homeric World under the conductor Ernst von Schuch. The Dresden music critic Roeder praised her artistic qualities and also her stage appearance, in particular her “advantageous appearance” and “tall, slim figure”. Mathilde Fröhlich was a member of the German Stage Members' Cooperative .

Guest performance in London

The Hamburg opera director Bernhard Pollini became aware of the artist and arranged for her to perform in London in 1892 , for which she received the necessary leave from the Dresden Opera. At the Covent Garden Opera in London , Fröhlich sang the Rhine daughters, Erda and a Valkyrie in Richard Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen under the direction of Gustav Mahler . She also performed in a Wagner concert at St. James's Hall in London .

After returning from England to the Dresden Opera, Fröhlich sang Rheingold -Erda and a role in Rubinstein's Kinder der Heide as well as Puk in Oberon as well as other opera characters such as Maddalena in Rigoletto and Lucia in Cavalleria rusticana . As a singer she took part in church concerts, for example in Chemnitz with the aria: Se i mici Sospiri, which was attributed to Stradella , and with the song “Be quiet to the Lord” from Mendelssohn's Elias .

Leaving the Dresden Opera

After their marriage in 1901, the artist Fröhlich took the name of her husband, who later became the Vienna Rayon Inspector Otto Kolbe, and ended her professional career as an opera singer in Dresden. She lived with her husband Otto Kolbe († 1932) and a daughter and parents, Antonie and Carl / Karl Fröhlich († 1904), again in her native Vienna, most recently as a widow and pensioner on Cumberlandstrasse. On November 12, 1934, she was buried in the Central Cemetery in Vienna .

The Austrian clarinetist, composer and university professor Alfred Prinz (1930–2014) was her grandson.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the Dresden address book for 1891, Mathilde Fröhlich lived with her mother Antonie Fröhlich, "teacher's wife" at Wettinerstraße 5, digitized SLUB Dresden
  2. ↑ Roeder, Ernst : The Dresden Court Theater of the Present. Biographical-critical sketches of the members . E. Person's Verlag, Dresden / Leipzig, 1896, pp. (49-52) 49 f.
  3. ↑ Kutsch, Karl-Josef / Riemens Leo: Großes Sängerlexikon , Volume 4, keyword: Nausikaa von August Bungert, p. 5282; ISBN 3-598-11598-9
  4. ↑ Roeder, Ernst: The Dresden Court Theater of the Present. Biographical-critical sketches of the members. E. Person's Verlag, Dresden / Leipzig, 1896, pp. (49-52) 52
  5. ↑ New Theater-Almanach, Volume 1902, p. 625, column 1, membership no. 9215; Digitized
  6. ↑ Roeder, Ernst: The Dresden Court Theater of the Present. Biographical-critical sketches of the members . E. Person's Verlag, Dresden / Leipzig, 1896, pp. (49-52) 51
  7. ^ Address book Vienna for 1930 Volume 1, Part I p. 748 Column 2
  8. ^ New Theater Almanach , Volume 1902, p. 653, column 1
  9. ^ Address book Vienna for 1933, Part I, p. 791, column 4; Digitized Vienna Library
  10. ↑ Adolph Lehmann's General Housing Anzeiger , 1934 Part I List of Names; Vienna library digital

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SURNAME Happy, Mathilde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kolbe, Mathilde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian opera singer (alto)
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1934
Place of death Vienna