Richard Holm

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Richard Holm (born August 3, 1912 in Stuttgart , † July 20, 1988 in Munich ) was a German opera singer ( tenor ) who worked at the Munich State Opera for over 30 years . Internationally, he achieved a high reputation, especially as a Mozart singer.

Live and act

Richard Holm was born in Stuttgart. He studied singing at the University of Music for the Performing Arts in Stuttgart. His debut as an opera singer took place in 1937 at the Kiel Opera House , where he found his first engagement after completing his studies. From 1942 to 1945 he sang at the Nuremberg Opera House . Since the 1948 season he was a member of the ensemble of the Munich State Opera .

Richard Holm took part in important world premieres of modern opera works in Munich: 1957 in The Harmony of the World by Paul Hindemith , 1963 in The Engagement in San Domingo by Werner Egk and 1978 in Lear by Aribert Reimann .

1975 he played the role of Gustav von Aschenbach in there Death in Venice by Benjamin Britten . His role as the old, loyal Count of Kent in Lear "serving the king with self-denial" was his last impressive role portrait on the stage of the Munich State Opera . He also sang this role, right on his 70th birthday, at the last performance of the opera at the end of the Munich Opera Festival in 1982. In July 1982 he also took over the speaking role of steward in the Strauss opera Ariadne auf Naxos at the Munich Opera Festival , which he designed with "complete arrogant arrogance".

Richard Holm sang every year from 1949 to 1952 at the Salzburg Festival , where he played Jaquino in Fidelio and the Mozart roles Tamino, Idamente and Annio. Holm also made guest appearances at the Glyndebourne Festival in 1950 and at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and London in the 1952/53 season .

Richard Holm was also an important concert singer and sought-after singing teacher as a professor at the Munich University of Music . His students included u. a. the tenor Francisco Araiza .

repertoire

At the beginning of his career Richard Holm mainly sang the lyric tenor part in the operas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Belmonte, Tamino) and the lyrical buffo part (Jaquino, David in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg ), in later years there were great character roles like Loge in Der Ring des Nibelungen and Novagerio in Palestrina (1952 WDR) added. In 1963 Richard Holm also took on the title role in Palestrina at the Bavarian State Opera . His intense character portrait was also released on CD as a live recording.

For broadcasting Richard Holm also undertook rare trips to the operetta : 1950 he worked at the North West German Radio (NWDR) in dreamland of Eduard Künneke with; He sang several times in operettas for Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), for example in the Kálmán operetta Das Veilchen von Montmartre by Emmerich Kálmán in 1954 and in Madame Dubarry in 1957 .

literature

Sound documents (selection)

  • Haydn: The Creation (Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft, 1957)
  • Mozart: Requiem (Deutsche Grammophon 2004)
  • Pfitzner: Palestrina (Orfeo 1999)
  • Reimann: Lear (Deutsche Grammophon 2000)
  • Strauss: The Egyptian Helena (Orfeo 1996)
  • Weber: Der Freischütz (Deutsche Grammophon 2000)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Monika Woehlken: MÜNCHNER OPERNFESTSPIELE 1982 . Performance reviews. In: Orpheus . Issue 9/10. September / October 1982. Page 719/720.
  2. ↑ http://www.orfeo-international.de/pages/cd_c515993d.html
  3. ↑ http://www.operadis-opera-discography.org.uk/CLSIHOLM.HTM
  4. ↑ http://www.diary.ru/~1sedt3ct6/
personal data
SURNAME Holm, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1988
Place of death Munich