Otto Goritz (singer)
Otto Goritz (born June 8, 1873 in Berlin - April 11, 1929 in Hamburg ) was a German theater actor and opera singer ( baritone ).
Life
Goritz, son of the court actor Otto Goritz and the singer Olga Nielitz , studied singing with his mother.
First he worked as an actor from 1888 to 1890 at the City Theater of Bremen and from 1892 to 1893 at the City Theater of Aachen .
As an opera singer he started his first engagement at the court theater in Neu-Strelitz in October 1895 , where he made his debut as “Matteo” in Fra Diavolo and stayed there for four years. He was a popular member of this stage and was honored repeatedly by invitations to court concerts.
In 1899 he joined the Association of the Wroclaw City Theater and was engaged at the Hamburg City Theater from 1901 to 1903 . In 1903 he gave a guest performance at the Vienna State Opera .
Then he went to the Metropolitan Opera in New York (inaugural role: "Klingsor" in Parsifal , despite a ban from Bayreuth), where he was very successful as a Wagner interpreter .
In 1917, when the USA entered the First World War , he had to give up his career as a German after 14 seasons , 23 games and 405 performances in New York alone and was interned as a citizen of a hostile country . After the war he wanted to perform again in the USA; However, demonstrations against him caused him to leave the United States and never perform again.
After returning to Germany, he worked again in Hamburg from 1920 to 1921 and at the Great Volksoper Berlin from 1922 to 1925 .
He was married to the actress Emma Rahé .
Otto Goritz was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg, grid square R 21 (south-east of Chapel 2 / Kapellenstrasse ). His gravestone - a brick stele, has no longer survived.
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Verlag von Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 339 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Otto Goritz in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Otto Goritz at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- Otto Goritz pictures in the Manskopf Collection of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main
- Otto Goritz audio files in the National Jukebox of the Library of Congress (English). Retrieved June 17, 2019.
- Klaus Ulrich Spiegel: The Met's German Voice - The interdisciplinary bass baritone Otto Goritz on ku-spiegel.de
Remarks
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↑ , so u. a. in a report on the graves of opera singers, Zeitschrift für Trauerkultur, No. 77/78, June 2002 ( fof-ohlsdorf.de );
Eisenberg and other sources cite 1872.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goritz, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater actor and opera singer (baritone) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 11, 1929 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |