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Rosa Sucher (born Hasselbeck ; February 23, 1849 in Velburg - April 16, 1927 in Eschweiler ) was a German opera singer with a soprano voice . She was best known for her Wagner and Weber interpretations and was the first Isolde actress at the Bayreuth Festival .

life and work

Sucher was the daughter of the school teacher and choir director Hasselbeck in Velburg, Upper Palatinate, through whom she received her first training. She performed early on in church concerts. From 1871 - after the death of her father - in Freising near Munich, she received "more thorough training, which enabled her to appear on the stage." In the same year she sang to the general manager of the Munich Court Opera , Karl von Perfall , and was immediately engaged . Under her maiden name she made her debut as Waltraute in Wagner's Die Walküre . She stayed there for three years and continued to be trained by her brother Hans Hasselbeck, a singer and teacher. In 1874 she went to the Trier City Theater , then to the Königsberg City Theater . In 1875 she made her debut at the Berlin Kroll Opera as Agathe in Weber'schen Freischütz , then at the City Theater of Danzig . This was followed by an engagement at the Leipzig Opera House , where she took over the Sieglinde in Die Walküre , met the conductor and composer Joseph Sucher (1843–1908) and became his wife. For the singer, Leipzig became "the cradle of fame", wrote Bernhard Vogel in the gazebo . The Suchers were committed to the Hamburg City Theater in 1878 . Rosa Sucher's inaugural role in Hamburg was Elsa in Wagner's Lohengrin . There she also sang in world premieres by Heinrich Hofmann , Anton Rubinstein and Charles Villiers Stanford as well as in the German premieres of Massenet's Hérodiade and Verdi's Othello - in this opera as Desdemona with Albert Stritt in the title role.

During her Hamburg years, Rosa Sucher was able to establish herself as an extraordinary Wagner singer and at the same time develop an international career. In 1882 she sang Isolde in Hamburg and London, there in the English premiere of Tristan und Isolde . She later embodied Isolde, her star role, at the Bayreuth Festival , at the Vienna Court Opera and in the Metropolitan Opera of New York, where she was enthusiastically acclaimed for her performance, according to the New York Times . During her first London guest appearance in 1882, she also sang Elsa (under the musical direction of Hans Richter ), Eva, Elisabeth and Senta as well as Weber's Euryanthe at the Drury Lane Theater . From 1884 she performed “glamorous guest performances” at the Vienna Court Opera, such as Karl-Josef Kutsch and Leo Riemens . In Vienna - on the occasion of the centenary in 1886 in honor of the composer - she could be seen and heard in three roles by Carl Maria von Weber , as Agathe, Euryanthe and Rezia. In Vienna she also took over the Selica in the Afrikanerin , an opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer, who was so fiercely fought by Wagner for anti-Semitic reasons .

Rosa Seeker as Isolde

In 1886 the singer made her debut at the Bayreuth Festival as Isolde and Kundry. In 1888 she took over Eva in the Meistersinger von Nürnberg there , and in 1889 again Kundry. In the festival summers of 1891 and 1892 she sang again as Isolde and also as Venus in Tannhäuser .

Special guest performances at the Berlin Court Opera in 1888 - as Leonore and Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung - led to her engagement as a member of the ensemble at this house from 1889. Her husband also moved from Hamburg to Berlin. At the same time, the singer continued her guest activities unabated. In 1891 she sang at the Städtisches Opernhaus in Frankfurt am Main and at the Zurich Opera , and in 1892 at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London. There she was engaged as Isolde - and as Brünnhilde in the Ring des Nibelungen , conducted by Gustav Mahler . In 1893 she gave a guest performance at the Munich Court Opera , in 1895 she took part in a tour of the Damrosch Opera Company through North America, in 1896 she appeared at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels and returned to Bayreuth as Sieglinde. In 1897 she took over the Brünnhilde in the Dutch premiere of Götterdämmerung at the Amsterdam Wagner Society. In 1898 she appeared at the Dresden Court Opera , again in Amsterdam in 1899, and at the Deutsches Theater in Prague in 1899 and 1902 . In 1903 she said goodbye to the opera stage in Berlin - with a Wagner role, Sieglinde in Die Walküre .

After the death of her husband, she settled in Vienna in 1908 , where she worked as a singing teacher. In 1914 she published her autobiography. She spent her old age, depending on the support of a well-meaning hotelier, completely paralyzed and impoverished in Eschweiler, where she died in 1927. She outlived her husband by nearly twenty years. She was buried next to him in the St. Hedwig cemetery on Liesenstrasse in Berlin-Mitte . Both graves no longer exist.

rank

According to Kutsch / Riemens , Sucher was “one of the great dramatic and Wagnerian sopranos of her generation”.

Bernhard Vogel characterizes her portrayal of Brünnhilde as follows: “She embodies the heroic virgin so wonderfully, she so clearly expresses the Valkyrie character without ever violating the boundaries of beauty, and she throws the Hojotohoruf into the world so brightly, swings the spear so powerfully ; a heartwarming sight that makes you understand straight away why Brunhild has become Wotan's favorite. "

Roles (selection)

World premieres

repertoire

Beethoven :

Luck :

Meyerbeer :

Verdi :

Wagner :

Weber :

Role models

  • Kundry in Bayreuth

  • Sieglinde in Bayreuth

Autobiography

  • Pink Seeker: My Life , 1914

literature

Web links

Commons : Pink Viewfinder  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Bernhard Vogel: Mrs. Rosa Sucher . In: The Gazebo . Volume 3, 1892, pp. 66 .
  2. ↑ Pink viewfinder . Isolde's love death; Retrieved November 29, 2017
  3. ↑ The brother's family name is given here after Kutsch, Riemens: Großes Sängerlexikon . 3. Edition. 1997-2000, Vol. 4, p. 4589.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f viewfinder, pink . In: Kutsch, Riemens: Großes Sängerlexikon . 3. Edition. 1997-2000, Volume 4, p. 4589, books.google.at
  5. ↑ LSG is looking forward to the 42nd international fun run accessed on January 22, 2018
  6. ↑ Role Directory Pink Seeker . Vienna State Opera ; accessed on December 1, 2017; At the time of the query, the lists of roles were not fully recorded until 1955, so the present list is incomplete
  7. ↑ Centralblatt for Voice and Tone Formation , Singing Lessons and Voice Hygiene , Volume 19, 1924, p. 18, Trowitsch and Son
  8. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006, p. 56.
personal data
SURNAME Seeker, pink
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hasselbeck, Rosa (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer with a soprano voice
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Velburg
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1927
Place of death Eschweiler