Max Lichtegg
Max Lichtegg , actually Munio Lichtmann (born January 17, 1910 in Buczacz , Galicia , Austria-Hungary ; died September 22, 1992 in Zurich ) was a Polish-Swiss operetta and opera singer with a tenor voice .
Life
Max Lichtegg lost his parents at an early age and grew up with an uncle in Vienna , where he attended school and had already performed as a boy soprano . He studied history at the University of Vienna and singing at the New Conservatory in Vienna and in Bern . He began his stage career in 1936 at the Stadttheater Bern . Lichtegg was soon considered an operetta star by the audience, so that he had to fight for his opera roles with the directors. From 1940 he was a member of the Zurich City Theater ensemble . Lichtegg made guest appearances at the Vienna State Opera and in 1948 at the San Francisco Opera . He sang at the State Operas of Munich and Stuttgart, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées Paris, at the Grand Théâtre de Genève , in Los Angeles, Strasbourg and Wiesbaden as well as at the Monte Carlo Opera .
His stage repertoire included Belmonte in Abduction from the Seraglio , Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni , Tamino in the Magic Flute , Almaviva in Rossini's Barber of Seville , the eponymous hero in Fra Diavolo , Lyonel in Flotow's Martha , and Ernesto in Don Pasquale , the Hoffmann in Hoffmann's Stories , the Lenski in Eugene Onegin , the Duke in Rigoletto , the Alfredo in La traviata , the Hans in the Bartered Bride , the Rodolfo in La Bohème , the Max in Der Freischütz , the Lohengrin and the Narraboth in Salome .
At the Opera House of Zurich Lichtegg sang in the premieres of Paul Burkhard Casanova in Switzerland in 1942 and 1947 in the operetta Tic-Tac , 1952, as revised in Paul Hindemith's Cardillac , 1962 in the premiere of Armin Schiblers Blackwood and co . In 1951 he sang Tom Rakewell in the German premiere of Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress . He also appeared as a concert singer and lieder singer. In 1987 his 50th stage anniversary was celebrated in Zurich.
He was also very talented as an actor and he had a stunning charm.
Lichtegg was naturalized in Zurich in 1949 . He was married twice, first to Olga Kaufmann, then to Marietta Winterhalder. His grave is in the Manegg cemetery . His tomb was lifted.
literature
- Paul Suter : Max Lichtegg . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1103 f.
- Paul Suter: Lichtegg, Max. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz .
- Lichtegg, Max. In: Large singer lexicon . 2000, pp. 14320ff.
- Alfred A. Fassbind: Max Lichtegg: only committed to music. Römerhof, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-905894-31-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Max Lichtegg in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Max Lichtegg in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Max Lichtegg in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Max Lichtegg at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- Max Lichtegg in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Marianne Zelger-Vogt: Charming boy in the waltz paradise. Review, in: NZZ , March 18, 2017, p. 26.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lichtegg, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lichtmann, Munio (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish-Swiss operetta and opera singer with a tenor voice |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 17, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buczacz , Galicia , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 22, 1992 |
| Place of death | Zurich , Switzerland |