Pauline Lucca

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Pauline Lucca, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1862

Pauline Lucca , occasionally and Pauline Lucka , (* 25. April 1841 in Vienna , † 28. February 1908 ibid) was an Austrian opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Pauline was the daughter of the businessman Joseph Koppelmann and his wife Barbara Willer. In 1834 the family converted from Jewish to Catholic. She took on the name "Lucca". The doctor Samuel Lucka was her paternal uncle, the writers Emil Lucka and Mathilde Prager her cousin and her cousin.

Lucca received her first vocal training in the choir of the Karlskirche in Vienna with Joseph Rupprecht . She later became a student of Otto Uffmann and Richard Lewy . With the support of her teachers, Lucca soon got smaller roles at the Vienna Court Opera and in 1859, at the age of 18, was hired as a soloist at the theater in Olomouc . There she made her debut in the role of Elvira (in Ernani by Giuseppe Verdi ). The following year Lucca was invited to Prague , where she sang Valentine (in Les Huguenots by Giacomo Meyerbeer ) and the title role in Vincenzo Bellini's Norma with great success .

Meyerbeer engaged her in 1861 at the Royal Court Opera in Berlin , where she was still taught by him. He succeeded in getting Lucca to get a lifetime engagement at the Berlin Court Opera . This was u. a. supported by the Prussian King Wilhelm I and Otto von Bismarck . Both were avowed admirers of her singing and acting.

In 1865 Lucca married the Prussian officer and landowner Adolf von Rhaden , with whom she had a daughter. On the occasion of a tour of the USA in 1873, she got her divorce in America in order to marry Matthias von Wallhofen for the second time.

From Berlin, Lucca made many guest appearances throughout Germany, including to London and Saint Petersburg . When Mathilde Mallinger was signed to the Berlin Court Opera on October 1, 1869, Lucca saw her as a serious competitor and, after a dispute, resigned in April 1872 without notice. In the following years she first made guest appearances in America , later in Vienna, and from 1880 on again in Berlin, where she saw the previously celebrated triumphs renewed.

In 1889, Lucca said goodbye to the stage, withdrew into private life and settled in her country estate near Zurich .

Pauline Lucca died in Vienna in 1908; after the cremation in Gotha she was buried in a crypt at the Stadtpfarrfriedhof in Baden near Vienna , group 06, row 01, number 15.

Roles (selection)

Audiences and official critics were enthusiastic about Lucca's performance. In addition, her expressive voice, which was g – c '' ', is always praised. Her repertoire included over 60 roles in German, French and Italian operas.

Student (selection)

Others

A contractual clause released her from participating in operas by Richard Wagner .

Two dishes were created in honor of Pauline Lucca: the salty Lucca eyes (also toast Lucca ) and the sweet spritz cake pastry of the same name . A marble bust of Pauline Lucca created by the sculptor Gustav Willgohs around 1866 is considered lost.

literature

Web links

Commons : Pauline Lucca  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Antonicek: Pauline Lucca, singer . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . Volume 5 (Lfg. 24), Vienna 1993, p. 340 (PDF)
  2. ↑ Local news. [...] Pauline Lucca †. In: Badener Zeitung , March 4, 1908, p. 2, bottom right ( anno.onb.ac.at )
  3. ^ Heinrich Ehrlich : In the Emperor's Palace . In: The Gazebo . Volume 5, 1872, pp. 80–82 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
personal data
SURNAME Lucca, Pauline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lucka, Pauline; Rhaden, Pauline von; Wallhofen, Pauline from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian opera singer
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1908
Place of death unsure: Zurich