Růžena Maturová
Růžena Maturová (born September 2, 1869 in Prague , Austria-Hungary ; died February 25, 1938 in Prague) was a Czech opera singer.
Life
Růžena Maturová was a student of the singing teacher Marie Löwe-Destinn . She began her career as a soprano vocalist at the Teplice City Theater , from 1890 to 1893 she sang under the name of Rosa Matura with Felix Weingartner at the Mannheim Court Theater . In 1893 she sang in a guest appearance at the Theater Unter den Linden in Berlin as Marie in The Bartered Bride . In 1893 she became a member of the National Theater in Prague and was the leading soprano there until she stepped down from the stage in 1910. She was the main interpreter of the operas by Bedřich Smetana ( Libusa ) and Dvořáks. She sang Rusalka in the world premiere in 1901 . She also sang in the world premieres of Dvořák's Čert a Káča (Katinka and the Devil) in 1899 and Armida in 1904, as well as Eva (1897) by Josef Bohuslav Foerster and by Zdeněk Fibich the title roles in Hedy (1896) and Sárka (1897).
Her repertoire included works by Mozart, Verdi, Wagner and Puccini. She went on concert tours through North America (1907), Russia, Poland and Serbia. Leoš Janáček dedicated the second volume of his Moravian Folk Songs to her. Maturová later worked as a singing teacher in Prague. In the early 1920s she starred in several silent films that were produced in Czechoslovakia.
She was married to the Mannheim dramaturge Ludwig Schreiner (1870–1896) and the Prague conductor Frantisek Jílek (1865–1911). She is buried on the Olšanské hřbitovy .
literature
- Maturová, Rùzena in: Großes Sängerlexikon , 2000, p. 15859 ff.
- J. Rectories: Rùzena Maturová . Prague, 1936
Web links
- Literature by and about Růžena Maturová in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Růžena Maturová in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Národní archive, Policejní ředitelství I, konskripce, karton 614, obraz 537 , Prague Registration Book, in the National Archives
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maturová, Růžena |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech opera singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 2, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 25, 1938 |
| Place of death | Prague |