Rita Bartos

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Rita Viktoria Martha Bartos (born May 25, 1925 in Vienna ; † December 13, 1985 there ) was an Austrian opera and operetta singer .

Life

Rita Bartos completed a vocal degree at the Vienna State Academy . She made her stage debut as an opera singer in the 1952/53 season at the Klagenfurt City Theater as Pamina in the opera Die Zauberflöte . In the 1953/54 season she was engaged at the Munster Municipal Theaters . From 1954 to 1959 she was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Cologne Opera . Here she took part in the world premiere of the opera Die Witwe von Ephesus by Hermann Reutter in June 1954 ; In July 1957 she also took on the role of Sister Constance in the German premiere of the opera Conversations of the Carmelites by Francis Poulenc . After that, Bartos worked mainly as a freelancer.

On stage, Bartos sang mainly the subject of the coloratura soubrette in the field of opera . Her stage repertoire included roles such as Papagena in Die Zauberflöte , Zerlina in Don Giovanni , Marzelline in Fidelio , the maid Anna Reich in The Merry Wives of Windsor and the little fox Clever Head in The Cunning Little Vixen . With the latter role, she also made a guest appearance in December 1956 in the Austrian premiere of the opera The Cunning Little Fox at the Vienna Volksoper . In addition, she regularly sang operettas and was active as a concert singer.

In 1959 Rita Bartos first appeared at the Bayreuth Festival . From 1961 to 1967 she was a permanent member of the Bayreuth Festival. She sang every year one of the flower girls in Richard Wagner's Bühnenweihfestspiel Parsifal . She has also made guest appearances at the Teatro Comunale in Florence , at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels .

Bartos is best known for her numerous operetta recordings , which were made in the 1950s and 1960s and published on records by Polydor . Bartos always sang the role of soubrette here . Cross-sections of operettas were recorded, including One Night in Venice , Wiener Blut , The Merry Widow , The Tsarevich , Paganini , Countess Mariza , The Circus Princess , The Rose of Stambul , Black Forest Girl and Viktoria and Her Husar . Bartos sang in these recordings, under the musical direction of the operetta conductor Franz Marszalek , with Buffo partners such as Peter Alexander , Peter Kraus and above all Willy Hofmann .

In addition, in the 1960s at Bayerischer Rundfunk, under the musical direction of Carl Michalski, a number of cross-sections of operettas with dialogue, spoken by Karl Schönböck and Fita Benkhoff ; In these recordings, Bartos sang Arsena in Der Zigeunerbaron , Bronislawa in Der Bettelstudent and Sora in Gasparone .

In the 1950s and 1960s, Bartos also made a number of complete recordings of operettas on the radio , mostly on Westdeutscher Rundfunk with Franz Marszalek , including The Last Waltz (1958) and The Dollar Princess (1964). In 1958 she sang the role of Yvette in the opera La rondine by Giacomo Puccini on a radio broadcast by Westdeutscher Rundfunk . In 1959, she lent the actress Gerlinde Locker (as Adele) her voice in a television adaptation of the operetta Die Fledermaus , which was directed by Kurt Wilhelm .

Rita Bartos' radio recordings on Westdeutscher Rundfunk, as far as they have survived, have largely been published on CD in recent years, in some cases on several labels (Line Music, Membrane, Hamburger Archiv für Gesangskunst).

She was temporarily married to the Danish bass-baritone Frans Andersson (1911–1988).

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  1. ↑ The clever little fox ( memento of the original from May 2, 2014 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. , (PDF; 802 kB) Cast sheet for the 1956/1957 season @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / guschlbauer.com
  2. ↑ Rita Barto's biography on the official website of the Bayreuth Festival
  3. ↑ LA RONDINE Complete Opera Recordings
  4. ^ The bat recordings
personal data
SURNAME Bartos, Rita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bartos, Rita Viktoria Martha (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1985
Place of death Vienna