Pauline Mailhac
Pauline Rebekka Mailhac (born May 4, 1858 in Vienna , † April 9, 1946 in Burghausen ) was an Austro-German opera singer ( soprano ).
Life
Pauline Mailhac was the daughter of the Viennese master tailor Franz Rebeka. She later took over the stage name from her mother, who was born in Mailhac . At the age of nine she sang in the church choir of the Karlskirche in Vienna . Later she received singing lessons from Otto Uffmann . The next vocal stations were the city theaters in Würzburg , Königsberg and Mainz .
In 1883 she received an engagement at the Karlsruhe Court Opera under Felix Mottl . With the soprano and since 1891 Mottl's wife, Henriette Mottl, she was in a competitive situation. She gave her farewell performance in Karlsruhe with Brünnhilde in Wagner's Götterdämmerung on June 15, 1901. Her successor was the Czech-German singer Zdenka Faßbender .
She spent her next forty-five years with her brother in Burghausen and received a pension of 800 Reichsmarks from her musical work . She died in Burghausen in 1946.
Honors
- Honorary member of the Karlsruhe court theater
literature
- E. Marktl: Mailhac Pauline Rebekka. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 20 f. (Direct links on p. 20 , p. 21 ).
- Horst Ferdinand: Pauline Mailhac . In: Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (Ed.): Baden-Württemberg portraits . Stuttgart 1999, pp. 177-186
- Horst Ferdinand: Mailhač, Pauline . In: Baden biographies . New episode 4. Stuttgart 1996, pp. 192–194 ( online )
- Uwe Harten : Mailhac, Pauline Rebekka. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mailhac, Pauline |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mailhac, Pauline Rebekka (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-German opera singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 4, 1858 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 9, 1946 |
| Place of death | Burghausen |