Rosl Zapf
Rosl Zapf (born February 17, 1925 in Hof , Land Salzburg ) is an Austrian opera singer with a mezzo-soprano voice .
Life
Zapf completed a vocal degree in Graz with Stoja von Milinković. Her first engagement was from 1945 to 1949 at the Salzburg State Theater . After a brief engagement at the Bavarian State Opera , she was a soloist at the Frankfurt Opera from 1950 . Until her stage departure in 1976 she was a permanent member of the Frankfurt Opera, where she was one of the most popular members of the ensemble. In 1962 she worked there in the world premiere of the opera Die Alkestiade by Louise Talma . She also sang in the German premieres of Cardillac (1952) and the opera Uno sguardo dal ponte (1962) by Renzo Rossellini . In the 1965/66 season she sang at the Frankfurt Opera in the world premiere of the two one-act plays The End of a World (as Marchesa) and The Country Doctor (as Mother) by Hans Werner Henze .
Her most important stage roles included: Cherubino (and later) Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro , Frau Reich in Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor , Hansel in Hansel and Gretel , Azucena in The Troubadour , Amneris in Aida , Mrs. Quickly in Falstaff . She also sang Magdalena in Der Evangelimann , Mrs. Herring in Albert Herring , Countess Geschwitz in Lulu and the innkeeper in Boris Godunow . Zapf was also active as a concert altist and occasionally in operettas (Czipra in Der Zigeunerbaron ).
Zapf appeared at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie (1954), at the Salzburg Festival (1956, as 3rd Lady in Die Zauberflöte ), at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos (1959) in Lisbon and at the Grand Opéra Paris .
literature
- Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Third, expanded edition. Munich 1999. Volume 5: Seidemann – Zysset, p. 3798. ISBN 3-598-11419-2
- Karl-Josef Kutsch, Leo Riemens: Large singer lexicon . Fourth, enlarged and updated edition. Munich 2003. Volume 7: Suvanny – Zysset, pp. 5141/5142. ISBN 3-598-11598-9
- Josef Weinmann (Ed.): Egerländer Biographical Lexicon - Männedorf: Weinmann, 1985–1987
Web link
- Works by and about Rosl Zapf in the catalog of the German National Library
- Rosl Zapf at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
Remarks
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zapf, Rosl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian opera singer with a mezzo-soprano voice |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 17, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hof , State of Salzburg |