Mathilde Hummel
Mathilde Hummel ( March 15, 1863 in Moosburg an der Isar - after 1894) was a German opera singer ( contra-alto / mezzo-soprano ).
Life
Hummel received her training in Munich in 1879 at Julius Hey's music school . After three years of training, she received the finishing touches from Johanna Jachmann-Wagner . On June 13, 1883, she was awarded the honorary award from the Königswarter Foundation for dramatic singing. From 1882 to 1884 she worked as a flower girl in the Parsifal performances in Bayreuth .
From there she was engaged at the Royal Court Theater in Dresden in 1884 . She was particularly considered a Wagner interpreter. At the Dresden Court Opera, she sang roles such as Marcellina in The Marriage of Figaro , Marthe Schwerdtlein in Margaret , the Countess in The Poacher and Dorothea in the opera The Pied Piper of Viktor Nessler . She was engaged in Dresden until 1894. After that, she seems to have given up her career.
literature
- Adolph Kohut : The Dresden Court Theater in the Present . E. Pierson's Publishing House. Dresden & Leipzig 1888, p. 227 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Volume 3: Franc-Kaidanoff, pp. 2171/2172. Fourth, enlarged and updated edition. Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-11598-9 .
Web links
- Mathilde Hummel in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Mathilde Hummel at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hummel, Mathilde |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (contralto / mezzo-soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moosburg on the Isar |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1894 |