Sigrid Onegin

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Sigrid Onegin
skating in 1904

Sigrid Onégin , actually Elisabeth Elfriede Emilie Sigrid Hoffmann , (born June 1, 1889 in Stockholm , † June 16, 1943 in Magliaso , Canton Ticino , Switzerland ) was a German opera and concert singer ( alto ).

Life

In 1905 she received vocal training in Munich and Milan. In 1911 she made her first appearances as a concert singer. From 1912 to 1919 she went to the Stuttgart Opera, with her debut as Carmen . From 1919 to 1922 she sang at the Munich State Opera.

Between 1922 and 1924 she made appearances at the New York Metropolitan Opera and made her debut as Amneris in Aida . From 1926 to 1931 she moved to the Städtische Oper Berlin. In 1927 she made a guest appearance at the Covent Garden Opera in London with the Ring des Nibelungen under Bruno Walter . In 1931 and 1932 she achieved a triumph as Orfeo at the Salzburg Festival . In 1933 and 1934 she was heard at the Bayreuth Festival with alto parts in the Ring des Nibelungen. From 1931 to 1935 Onégin had a guest performance contract at the Zurich City Theater. Her last concert appearance took place in Zurich in 1942.

On May 25, 1913, she married the composer and pianist Agnes Elisabeth Overbeck , great-granddaughter of Christian Adolph Overbeck, who performed under the pseudonym “Baron Eugen Borisowitsch Lhwoff-Onégin” in London . During the First World War , she hid her "Russian husband" from the authorities until "he" was denounced and arrested in 1916. Due to her influence she managed to get Lhwoff-Onégin released. "He" died in 1919.

In his second marriage, Onegin was married to the doctor Fritz Penzoldt († 1959) from 1920, the brother of the writer Ernst Penzoldt . Her son was the writer Peter Penzoldt (1925–1969). Onégin first appeared under the name Lilly Hoffmann , later as Lilly Hoffmann-Onégin , but soon after her first marriage under the name Sigrid Onégin , under which she became famous. In the second marriage she was also called Sigrid Onégin-Penzoldt .

Grave in the forest cemetery Stuttgart

Onegin had one of the most expressive and cultivated alto voices of the 20th century ( Stephan Hörner ).

She is buried in the forest cemetery in Stuttgart .

Recordings

  • Sigrid Onegin, Recordings 1928-1930, MDVclassic
  • Sigrid Onegin, Opera Arias and Songs, Pearl
  • Living past - Sigrid Onegin, Vol. 1, Vol. 2 and Vol. 3, Preiser
  • Sigrid Onegin Vol. 1 (recordings 1919–1921), Nimbus, Prima Voce

literature

Web links

Commons : Sigrid Onégin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Isabel Sellheim: The family of the painter Friedrich Overbeck (1789-1869) in genealogical overviews . (= German Family Archives , Volume 104.) Neustadt an der Aisch, 1989, ISBN 3-7686-5091-X , GW ISSN  0012-1266 , p. 189
  2. The lack of a scandal and the uncritical mention of the "husband" in later reference works suggest that the marriage of convenience was not made public.