Sari Barabas

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Sári Barabás [ ˈʃaːrɪ ˈbɒrɒbaːʃ ] (born March 14, 1914 in Budapest ; † April 16, 2012 in Grünwald near Munich ) was a Hungarian - German opera and operetta singer ( soprano ).

Life

Barabás started her career as a ballet dancer. At the age of seven she danced in the Budapest children's ballet. Twelve years later she was the prima ballerina of the operetta house there. A serious accident ended her dancing career. Sári Barabás then studied singing in her hometown. At the age of 25 she made her debut in 1939 as Gilda in Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto at the Budapest National Opera .

After fleeing Hungary (1948), Barabás initially had engagements at the Stadttheater Zurich (1948–1950) and at the Vienna Volksoper (1949–1950); she then settled in Munich . Here she first worked for the Bavarian Radio and sang at the Frankfurt Opera and at the Wiesbaden State Theater . In 1952 she sang the Queen of the Night in the opera Die Zauberflöte in the Prinzregententheater with great success . Artistic director Rudolf Hartmann engaged Barabás at the Bavarian State Opera (permanent engagement 1955–1959; as a guest until 1965) and at the State Theater on Gärtnerplatz . Barabás was a permanent member of the ensemble there from 1954 to 1960; until 1971 she continued to appear regularly as a guest at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz. There was one of her brilliant roles that of Sylva Varescu in the operetta Die Csárdásfürstin , which she sang on many national and international music stages.

Sári Barabás, who also cultivated the upscale entertainment song, had appearances in France, England, Italy, Austria, Switzerland and several times in the USA. In 1950 she appeared at the San Francisco Opera as Queen of the Night. In 1951 she played as Madame Dubarry on the side of Willy Fritsch in the film Die Dubarry .

She made guest appearances at the Vienna State Opera (1949–1961), at the Covent Garden Opera (1951/1952 season as Gilda and Queen of the Night), at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (1952 as Adele in Le comte Ory by Gioacchino Rossini ), at the Glyndebourne Festival (1953 as Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail , 1954–1958 as Adele in Le comte Ory and 1957 as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos ) and at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (1956–1958).

In the 1960s she performed successfully at the Mörbisch Lake Festival on Lake Neusiedl . She worked in Victoria and Her Hussar (1960), Die Csárdásfürstin (1961), The Merry Widow and Venus in Silk (1967). She also sang in 1969 in London in the musical The Great Waltz .

In 1963 she was awarded the title of chamber singer . She has worked with singing colleagues from the Gärtnerplatztheater, such as B. Ferry Gruber , Rosl Schwaiger and Harry Friedauer recorded numerous records. In 1978 Barabás ended her stage career with the title role in the Broadway musical Hello, Dolly! at the State Theater on Gärtnerplatz. The artist had her last major international appearance in 1991 at Carnegie Hall . There, on the occasion of Richard Tauber's 100th birthday, she sang the well-known song Don't ask why I'm leaving (The song is over) by Robert Stolz .

On December 20, 1998, at the age of 85, she returned to the stage of the Munich Gärtnerplatztheater and took on a speaking role as Fürstin Anhilte in the operetta Die Csárdásfürstin by Emmerich Kálmán . In this role, Barabás, the “icon of the house”, finally took leave of the stage on June 2, 2007.

For her services to the Theater am Gärtnerplatz she was made an honorary member of the theater by Bavaria's Art Minister Hans Zehetmair in 1999 . As part of the appointment, Barabás and the state director and chief dramaturge of the house, Klaus Schultz , signed the deed of foundation for a Sári Barabás fund , from which the artists of the Gärtnerplatztheater are to receive unbureaucratic help.

Sári Barabás was married to the tenor Franz Klarwein (1914–1991) for the second time since 1956 , with whom she often stood on stage and in the concert hall. In 2012, Barabás died of complications from a stroke at the age of 98 .

Discography (selection)

Sari Barabas on CD

  • Sari Barabas - A singer portrait Uracant
  • Dostal, Nico - Clivia (cross section) EMI operetta melodies
  • Dostal, Nico - The Hungarian wedding (cross section) EMI operetta melodies
  • Fall, Leo - The Dollar Princess (cross section) EMI operetta melodies
  • Fall, Leo - Der liebe Augustin (melody sequence) EMI operetta melodies
  • Kálmán, Emmerich - Die Csárdásfürstin (short version) EMI operetta melodies
  • Kálmán, Emmerich - Countess Mariza (short version) EMI operetta melodies
  • Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus - The kidnapping from the Seraglio (complete recording) Valhalla
  • Rossini, Gioachino - The barber of Seville (complete picture) Valhalla
  • Rossini, Gioachino - Le comte Ory (complete recording) EMI
  • Schröder, Friedrich - Wedding night in paradise (cross section) EMI operetta melodies
  • Champagne Operetta - Rudolf Schock EMI
  • Focus Operetta - The Most Popular & Most Beautiful EMI

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literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b operetta singer Sári Barabás died at welt.de, April 16, 2012 (accessed on April 16, 2012).
  2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsgu59I9Vl4
  3. ↑ http://www.staatstheater-am-gaertnerplatz.de/index.php?m=304&f=06_news&ID_News=325
personal data
SURNAME Barabás, Sári
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-German opera and operetta singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 2012
Place of death Grünwald near Munich