Nelly Merz

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Nelly Merz , also Nellie Merz (born on February 28, 1876 in Frankfurt am Main ; died on July 12, 1968 there ) was a German opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Nelly Merz first studied singing with Dr. Hoch's Conservatorium in Frankfurt am Main and then four years in Geneva and Milan . She then made her debut at the Stadttheater Krefeld in 1913 . After an engagement at the German Opera House in Berlin from 1915 to 1918, she was a member of the ensemble of the Bavarian State Opera of the National Theater in Munich for almost thirty years . In addition, she also had appearances at the Vienna State Opera and guest appearances on other German theaters.

During this time she sang under the direction of conductors Richard Strauss , Bruno Walter , Wilhelm Furtwängler and Hans Knappertsbusch .

As an opera singer, she sang more than 25 first roles and won in particular the roles of Chrysothemis in Strauss' Elektra (1930), Elisabeth I in Rossini's Elisabetta regina d'Inghilterra , Sieglinde in Wagner's opera Die Walküre , Desdemona in Verdi's Otello , Senta in Wagner's The Flying Dutchman , the title roles in Franz Lehár's Eva and Verdi's Aida, and the Myrtocle in Eugen d'Albert's opera Die toten Augen .

In addition to the performances in the Wagner roles, she also impressed in guest performances in Mozart's artistic singing as well as in the singing of lieder and oratorios .

She was a married Gerke or Gehrke and after the end of her career (around 1945) gave singing lessons in her hometown of Frankfurt / Main.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nelly Merz in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
  2. ^ BRUNO WALTER - Götterdämmerung - Munich 1922
  3. ^ Franz Schreker: "Das Spielwerk", world premiere at the National Theater in Munich, October 30, 1920
  4. ^ Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 333.
personal data
SURNAME Merz, Nelly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Merz, Nellie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1968
Place of death Frankfurt am Main