Paula von Hentke

Paula von Hentke , also Paula Hentke-Müller (around 1900 - after 1954) was an opera singer with a soprano voice who appeared at the Vienna State Opera and the Salzburg Festival .

Life

There is little information about Paula von Hentke. Her engagement at the Vienna State Opera from January 1922 to June 1925 is guaranteed, where she sang numerous small roles, but also appeared in some prominent roles, for example 23 times as Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro , 17 times as Lucienne in Die dead city , 14 times as Ida in the bat and 9 times as Esmeralda in the Bartered Bride . In Engelbert Humperdinck's fairy tale opera Hansel and Gretel she sang four times the dew man and the sand man. She also appeared in operas by d'Albert , Pfitzner , Puccini , Richard Strauss and Richard Wagner . At the Salzburg Festival in 1922 and 1925 she sang Barbarina and in 1926 Ida in the bat . From 1925 she had an engagement at the Dortmund Opera House.

In the 1932/33 season she was engaged in Teplitz . In April 1932 she appeared again as Esmeralda in the Vienna State Opera, in May 1935 she took over there in a performance of Adele in der Fledermaus .

Paula von Hentke was also a concert singer, for example she sang arias by Bizet and Meyerbeer , Johann Strauss , Handel and Mozart in concerts by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in 1922, 1923 and 1927 .

In 1942/43 she performed several times in the Vienna Schubert Hall with recitals, accompanied on the piano by Karl Hudez. Works by Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms and others were part of the lecture. a.

She also worked as a singing teacher. In 1954 she received a teaching position for opera-dramatic accompaniment at the Vienna Academy .

Important roles

Engelbert Humperdinck : Dew man and sand man in Hansel and Gretel Grain gold : Lucienne in The Dead City Meyerbeer Page in The Huguenots Mozart : Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro

Smetana : Esmeralda in the Bartered Bride Johann Strauss : Ida and Adele in the bat Richard Strauss : Slave in Salome Maid in Elektra Echo in Ariadne on Naxos Margret in distress

Web links

• Paula von Hentke's appearances at the Vienna State Opera

References and comments

1. ↑ The specified number of performances is a minimum, as the cast lists of the Vienna State Opera have not been fully recorded until 1955. (As of October 2016)
2. ↑ Theater and Art. In: Neues Wiener Journal , March 17, 1925, p. 11 ( digitized from ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online )
3. ^ Ensemble Teplitz , accessed on October 31, 2016.
4. ↑ Wiener Symphoniker : A. KONRATH, HENTKE, BALTZ / MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY, DVOŘÁK, BIZET, MEYERBEER, BEETHOVEN ( Memento of the original from October 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , November 26, 1922, accessed October 31, 2016.
5. ↑ Wiener Symphoniker : KURMANN, HENTKE, GAYER, ARAMESCO, A. TAUBER / REZNICEK, SMETANA, LAFITE, J. STRAUSS (SOHN) ( Memento of the original from October 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was automatically inserted and still Not checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , February 20, 1923, accessed October 31, 2016.
6. ↑ Wiener Symphoniker : SPÖRR, HENTKE, FRIEDMANN / MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY, WA MOZART, BRAHMS ( Memento of the original from October 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , July 10, 1927, accessed October 31, 2016.
7. ↑ Concerts and lectures. In: Neues Wiener Tagblatt , October 16, 1943, p. 7 ( digitized from ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online)
8. ↑ From the Austrian music institutions - Academy of Vienna - Appointments: . In: Austrian music magazine . 9th volume, issue JG. Vienna 1954, p. 369 ( digitized at degruyter.com ).