Teresa Seidl

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Teresa Seidl (* in Wisconsin ) is an American opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Seidl has German and Austrian ancestors. Her paternal grandparents came from Austria , and maternal from Trier . Seidl was musically influenced by her family. Her mother was a trained singer who worked as a music teacher and choir director. Seidl's sister is also a singer; she later worked in artist management. Her father and brother played several instruments. Seidl himself learned the trumpet and piano . As a teenager, Seidl wanted to become an opera singer, after having made a record with Puccini arias by the US opera and concert singer Eileen Farrell at the age of 13had heard. She received her first singing lessons at the age of 18. After winning some singing competitions in the USA, she went to Europe to study singing . She studied singing at the Vienna Conservatory .

After completing her training, she sang as a beginner at the Theater an der Wien . To continue her career, she went to Germany in the mid-1970s . She had her first engagement in Germany under the directorship of Günter Könemann at the Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen , where she often appeared in operettas and musicals as a beginner in the role of “dance soubrette”.

From the 1979/80 season up to and including the 1991/92 season, Seidl was a permanent member of the ensemble at Theater Bremen . Seidl sang a wide-ranging repertoire in Bremen , which mainly included the roles of coloratura soubrette , lyrical coloratura soprano and lyrical soprano. It was often used in premieres and new productions. Her roles in Bremen included: Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier (May 1980), Gretchen in Der Wildschütz (December 1982), Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi (June 1983), the title role in the German-language premiere of Domenico's opera L'Italiana in Londra Cimarosa (February 1984), Zerlina in Don Giovanni (June 1985), Pamina in Die Zauberflöte (February 1986), the 5th maid in Elektra (April 1986), Annina in One Night in Venice (December 1986), the Marzelline in Fidelio (February 1987), Micaëla in Carmen (June 1987), Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro (February 1988) and Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus (October 1988). In the resumption of the Don Giovanni production in 1985, Seidl then took on the role of Donna Elvira in July 1991, in which she “impressed with a lyrically illuminating soprano and excellent design”. At the season opening of the 1991/92 season with the Strauss opera Arabella (premiere: September 1991) Seidl sang in a “touching” Zdenka that “brought pure bliss” and performed an “all-round coherent role portrait with an immediately heartfelt vocal performance ".

The Sophie in Bremen was Seidl's “first major opera role ever”. She sang “exemplary”, her voice possessed “silver gloss”; it "was particularly convincing in the floating mezzavoce [...] and in the lyrical cantilenas with gently set heights". During her engagement in Bremen she made a guest appearance in December 1980 and again in December 1981 at the Christmas concert of the “Konzertanten Oper Hamburg” with Christmas carols and excerpts from the opera Hansel and Gretel ; she was a “Gretel who was as happy to play as she was lively”. In April 2008 Teresa Seidl returned to Bremen for a solo recital with excerpts from operas, operettas and musicals as part of the “musica viva” concert series .

In the 1985/86 season she made guest appearances at the Lübeck Theater ; she jumped in May 1986 at short notice as Zerlina in Don Giovanni . In the season 1987/88 she appeared at the Staatstheater Braunschweig as Sophie in Strauss'schen Rosenkavalier (premiere: February 1988); she proved to be “experienced” in the role and “shone with her bright soprano”. She sang Sophie there in December 1988 in a Rosenkavalier gala performance with Agnes Baltsa as Octavian; As a “clear-voiced” Sophie, Seidl was a “further plus point of an all-round successful gala.” In January 1989, Seidl was in the Carmen revival at the Braunschweig State Theater “with a cultivated voice leading a touching Micaela.” In Braunschweig, Seidl also sang a “excellent planned “Rosalinde in the new bat production in the 1990/91 season. Since January 1992 she has been working as a freelance singer. In the 1992/93 season Seidl had a permanent guest contract with the Frankfurt Opera ; later she continued to perform there. There she sang the Pamina (Frankfurt debut under the musical direction of Marcello Viotti ), the Sophie, the Despina in Così fan tutte and the Elisetta in Die heimliche Ehe (April 1993). She turned down an offer from her former agent Ioan Holender to work at the Vienna State Opera for family reasons.

She has made guest appearances at the Hanover State Opera (1992/93 season; as Marie in The Bartered Bride ), at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf , at the Cologne Opera , at the Karlsruhe State Theater and at the Leipzig Opera . In July 1992 she performed at the Eutin Festival ; she sang Pamina in the opera Die Zauberflöte with a “clear, relaxed, radiant soprano, with a convincing performance” . 1992 made her debut at the Leipzig Opera with the soprano parie in Udo Zimmermann's oratorio Pax Questuosa . In the summer of 1993 she gave a guest performance with the Israel Sinfonietta with the Fauré Requiem in Tel-Aviv . In the mid-1990s, Seidl left Europe and returned to her American homeland. However, she continued to make regular guest appearances in Europe , now mainly as a concert singer .

Between 1996 and 1999 she regularly gave concerts with Yehudi Menuhin , whom she met when she stepped in at short notice in the title role of the operetta The Merry Widow at the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad . Under Menuhin's musical direction she sang the soprano solos in Beethoven's 9th Symphony (in Strasbourg , Madrid and Stuttgart ), in Handel's The Messiah (in Hanover , Thessaloniki and Lisbon at Expo 98 ), in Haydn's The Creation and in the masses of Franz Schubert on a concert tour through Lithuania and Germany. The performances were recorded live and later published on CD. In May 1998 she took over the soprano solo in Beethoven's 9th Symphony under Menuhin's musical direction in a performance in The Hague in the presence of the European Commission ; the performance was broadcast live by numerous European broadcasters. In 1999 she sang the soprano solo in Beethoven's 9th Symphony in a memorial concert for Yehudi Menuhin under the musical direction of Mstislaw Rostropowitsch at the Royal Albert Hall . She also sang the commemorative concerts of Mozart's Coronation Mass in Toulouse (under the musical direction of Michel Plasson ) and Mozart's Requiem in Paris ; Menuhin should have conducted these concerts himself.

Seidl often went public with operetta recitals; she has performed operettas in Düsseldorf, Frankfurt am Main, London as well as in Brazil , Argentina ( Teatro Colón ) and in South Africa . In 1982 she was on German television in the ARD TV show One will win as a singer.

Seidl worked extensively as a singing teacher. She taught in Bremen and Vienna, among others. Her students include the mezzo-soprano Christine Leyser and the soprano and musical performer Anna Maria Kaufmann . Seidl was a singing professor at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee . She currently teaches singing (as of March 2017) at Lawrence University in Appleton , Wisconsin.

Seidl is married and has three children.

literature

  • Klaus-Ulrich Groth: Introduced: Teresa Seidl . Portrait and interview. In: Opera glasses . Edition January 1993. Pages 26/27.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Look back at the “golden age” of the Bremen theater ( memento of the original from March 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . (PDF; 217 kB) Weserkurier ; April 11, 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musicaviva.de
  2. ^ Opera 1991 , yearbook of the magazine Opernwelt , documentation, p. 95
  3. ↑ a b c Günter Peter: THE ROSENKAVALIER . Performance review. In: Orpheus . Issue May 5, 1980. Page 332/333.
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Denker: RECONSTRUCTION FROM THE FUND . Performance review. In: Orpheus . Issue October 10, 1991. Page 40.
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Denker: THE RIGHT ONE . Performance review. In: Orpheus . Issue November 11, 1991. page 39.
  6. ↑ Johannes Mayer: SPECIAL CONCERT FOR CHRISTMAS TIME . Concert review. In: Orpheus . Issue February 2, 1981. Page 139/140.
  7. ↑ Sue Peters: CONCERT SHOW OF THE CONCERTANTS OPERA HAMBURG . Concert review. In: Orpheus . Issue February 2, 1982. Page 154.
  8. ↑ Gerhard Eckels: ENJOYABLE . Performance review. In: Orpheus . Issue April 4, 1988. Page 278/279.
  9. ↑ Gerhard Eckels: ADDITION ... . Performance review. In: Orpheus . Issue April 4, 1989. Page 291.
  10. ↑ Gerhard Eckels: ADDITION ... . Performance review. In: Orpheus . Issue April 4, 1989. Page 291/292.
  11. ↑ ME / GE: BRAUNSCHWEIGER ALLERLEI ... . Performance reviews. In: Orpheus . Issue May 5, 1991. Page 42.
  12. ^ Opera 1992 , yearbook of the magazine Opernwelt , documentation, p. 101
  13. ↑ SUN AND RAIN . Performance review. In: Orpheus . Edition 12/13. December 1992. page 33
  14. ↑ Kauno Choras ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Discography of the Kaunas State Choir @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kaunochoras.lt
  15. ↑ Negende Symfonie ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Nederlands Concertkoor @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nck.nl
  16. ↑ Voice Recital with Teresa Seidl, soprano, Brad Liebl, baritone . University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee . Internet presence.
  17. ^ Teresa Seidl . Official website of Lawrence University . Retrieved March 12, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Seidl, Teresa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Wisconsin , USA