Ruth Lange (singer)

Ruth Maria Lange (born January 18, 1915 in Rabenau near Dresden; † January 25, 2008 ) was a German opera singer with alto and mezzo-soprano voices .

Life

Lange received instrumental lessons in her childhood. Her vocal training took place in Dresden a. a. with Waldemar Staegemann . She graduated from the singing class of the Dresden State Orchestra .

At the age of 23 she made her debut in Das Christ-Elflein by Hans Pfitzner at the Vienna Volksoper . Further stations were the Karlsbad City Theater and the Teplitz-Schönau Theater from 1939 to 1941 , the Theater des Volkes (Dresden) from 1941 and, after the war, the Dresden State Opera (until 1975). After 1945 she had guest appearances at the Munich State Opera, in Egypt, in Finland and in the Soviet Union. From 1947/1948, Lange also appeared as a concert singer and interpreted songs. From this point on, she also took on dramatic roles.

Her first marriage was to the bass singer Richard Capellmann (1904–1972), and later to the Dresden conductor Wilhelm Huebner .

repertoire

• the Ismene in Antigonae by Carl Orff (1950),
• Dorian Gray by Robert Hanell (premiere 1962)
• the Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss
• the composer in Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss
• the Dorabella in Così fan tutte by WA Mozart
• the Princess Eboli in Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi
• the Amneris in Aida by Giuseppe Verdi,
• the Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner
• the Venus in Tannhäuser by Richard Wagner
• the Fricka in The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner
• the Carmen by Georges Bizet
• the Agnes (Háta) in The Bartered Bride by Bedřich Smetana
• the Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana by Pietro Mascagni
• the Ulrica in A Masked Ball by Giuseppe Verdi
• the Magdalene in The Mastersingers of Nuremberg by Richard Wagner
• Nicklaus in Hoffmann's stories by Jacques Offenbach
• der Orlowsky in Die Fledermaus by Richard Strauss

She last spoke in 1977 in Dresden for Madame Krone in The Acting Director of WA Mozart.

Recordings (selection)

• Eterna : songs
• MMS : Page of Herodias in Salome by R. Strauss,
• Urania : Rusalka by A. Dvořák
• Urania: Hugo Wolf's Corregidor .

literature

• Artist on the Dresden Elbe slope. Volume II, 1st edition. Elbhang-Kurier-Verlag, Dresden 2007, ISBN 978-3-936240-09-2 .
• Ernst Krause (Ed.): Opera singers, 44 portraits from the world of music theater , Henschelverlag Berlin, 1962
• German photo library
• German photo library

1. ↑ Ruth Lange in Saxon Biographies
2. ↑ Capellmann in Bayr. Music dictionary online
3. ↑ Ruth Lange on website Isolde's Liebestod