Rudolph Engelhardt
Rudolph Engelhardt , also Rudolph Engelhardt-Kabilla (around 1849 - October 18, 1886 in Meiningen , Saxony-Meiningen ) was a German opera and concert singer with a tenor voice .
Life
Engelhardt began his stage career in the season 1873-74 with an engagement at the court theater of Sondershausen in Thuringia. In the following season he was engaged at the City Theater in Königsberg in East Prussia, then for two seasons at the Court Theater in Hanover . At the beginning of his career he also appeared as Rudolph Engelhardt-Kabilla . At the first Bayreuth Festival in 1876, he took over the Froh in Rheingold , alternating with Georg Unger . From 1877 Engelhardt was engaged for three seasons at the Riga Opera House . Here he mainly took over roles of the hero tenor , but also had success as a concert singer. For example, he could be heard in the scenes from Goethe's Faust by Robert Schumann or in the oratorio Odysseus , op. 41 by Max Bruch .
In 1881 he made guest appearances at the newly built opera house in Frankfurt am Main in the role of Vasco de Gama in Meyerbeer's African woman . The city theater of Augsburg is recorded as his last permanent engagement , in the season 1881–82. He then gave up his career on the opera stage and earned his living as a land geometer in the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen . Engelhardt performed at least on March 5, 1886 as a concert singer. At a chamber concert he sang the later famous song Zueignung by Richard Strauss , together with three other songs from Op. 10. It was the first public lecture by the donation .
literature
- Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Fourth, enlarged and updated edition. KG Saur, Munich 2003, Volume 4, p. 1335
Web links
- Rudolph Engelhardt in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christopher Fifield: Hans Richter , new edition, Boydell & Brewer 2016, p. 109
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Engelhardt, Rudolph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Engelhardt-Kabilla, Rudolph (full name); Engelhardt, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera and concert singer (tenor) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1849 |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 18, 1886 |
| Place of death | Meiningen , Thuringia |