Rosette Anday

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Rosette Anday , actually Piroska Anday (born December 22, 1899 or 1903 in Budapest , Hungary , † September 18, 1977 in Pressbaum or Vienna , Austria ) was a Hungarian opera singer ( mezzo-soprano ).

Life

On September 23, 1921, Bizet's opera Carmen was performed at the Vienna State Opera and a hitherto unknown 18-year-old woman sang the most difficult arias of the opera. Franz Schalk , then director of the Vienna State Opera, had heard the young singer a few months earlier in Budapest, where she studied singing at the local conservatory and took violin lessons from the composer Jenő Hubay . Schalk engaged her immediately without offering her a guest engagement as usual, and within a short time Rosette Anday became one of the leading mezzo sopranos at the Vienna State Opera. One of her teachers was the contralto and mezzo-soprano Mme. Charles Cahier , who sang Carmen at the Vienna Court Opera between 1907 and 1911 . Supported by Schalk and Richard Strauss , she gave her first recital in the same season in the Great Music Club Hall in Vienna .

After her debut, she sang first as Cherubino in Mozart's opera Le nozze di Figaro , then the character of Dorabella in the opera Così fan tutte (she was also heard in this role in one of the first operas at the Salzburg Festival ). Since her voice became more and more voluminous in a very short time, she took on ever larger roles from French and Italian opera in her repertoire and soon afterwards sang in Verdi's opera Aida , the character of Waltraute in Wagner's opera Götterdämmerung and the role of Brangäne in Tristan and Isolde . 5 years after her debut at the Vienna State Opera, she sang the dream role of every mezzo soprano: The role of Dalila in Camille Saint-Saën's opera Samson et Dalila .

Tomb of Rosette Anday

After that she toured all the major opera houses in Europe , as well as North and South America. Here she celebrated her greatest successes in the role of Klytämnestra in the Strauss opera Elektra , but always remained closely associated with the Vienna State Opera.

In 1938, after the annexation of Austria , Rosette Anday was banned from performing because of her Jewish origins. She lived in a “privileged mixed marriage” , but had to hide from the deportations.

Shortly after the end of the war, she started her new career at the Theater an der Wien .

Rosette Anday was one of the youngest female chamber singers in history and one of the most dedicated opera singers of all. She won many prizes around the world. She was granted honorary membership by the Vienna State Opera . Extremely popular in Viennese society, she lived in her villa in Pressbaum ( St. Pölten-Land district ) on Rosette Anday Strasse until the end of her life. She died ten days after her 74th birthday and found her final resting place in a grave of honor in Vienna's central cemetery (group 32 C, number 48).

Honors

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andauer, Piroska Students of the Franz Liszt Music Academy, Budapest 1875–1920
  2. ^ Anday Piroska database of the Hungarian State Opera
  3. ↑ David Cummings:  Anday, Rosette. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  4. ↑ Anday Pirsoka at the Liszt Academy
  5. ^ Kammersängerin Rosette Anday † Arbeiter Zeitung, September 20, 1977. P. 12
  6. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Anday, rosette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anday, Piroska (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian opera singer (mezzo-soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1899 or December 22, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 18th September 1977
Place of death Pressbaum or Vienna , Austria