Therese Vogl

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Therese Vogl (1877)

Therese Vogl (born as Therese Thoma November 12, 1845 in Tutzing , Kingdom of Bavaria ; died September 29, 1921 in Munich ) was a German opera singer with a soprano voice .

Life

Therese Thoma was the daughter of a village school teacher and received her singing training from Franz Hauser in Munich. In 1865 her debut at the Court Theater from Karlsruhe in the role of Casilda in La Part du Diable from Auber . In the following year she received an engagement at the Munich Court Opera . In 1868 she married the first tenor of the House of Heinrich Vogl (1845–1900). As a couple, both followed in the footsteps of the singing couple Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld and Malvina Schnorr von Carolsfeld and sang the title roles in Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner in Munich in 1869 . In 1869, both of them sang in the world premiere of Das Rheingold , Therese Vogl as Rhine daughter Wellgunde. In 1870 she sang Sieglinde in the world premiere of Walküre in Munich . In 1878 and 1879 she sang Brünnhilde in the first performances of Siegfried and Götterdämmerung outside Bayreuth . According to the English music critic Herman Klein (1856-1934), the Vogls fell out with the Wagner family, so that Therese Vogl never performed in Bayreuth.

In 1881 she appeared as Elsa at the Berlin Court Opera in Lohengrin . In 1882 she sang Brünnhilde in the English premiere of the Ring cycle under Anton Seidl at Her Majesty's Theater in London . She also took part in the European tour in 1882/83 with Angelo Neumann's Wagner traveling stage. She was also invited to Russia. She has often made guest appearances in Frankfurt am Main and sang in Hamburg, Mannheim, Weimar, Wiesbaden and Stuttgart.

In addition to the Wagner roles, she sang in roles such as the title role in Alceste von Gluck , the Klytämnestra in Iphigenie in Aulis , the Leonore in Fidelio and the Agathe in Freischütz and the Eglantine in the Euryanthe by Carl Maria von Weber . In 1872 she took part in the new production of the opera Theodor Körner by Wendelin Weissheimer , in 1885 in Munich, as so often with her husband, in the world premiere of the opera Der lazy Hans by Alexander Ritter .

She gave her stage farewell in 1892 as Isolde in Munich and was made an honorary member of the Munich Opera.

In 1875 Heinrich and Therese Vogl purchased the Deixlfurter See and neighboring lands near Tutzing, and in 1919 they sold the property.

literature

  • Vogl, Therese , in: Großes Sängerlexikon , 2000, pp. 25223-25225
  • Rolf Wünnenberg: The married couple Heinrich and Therese Vogl: a contribution to the operatic history of the 19th century . Tutzing: H. Schneider, 1982

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ La Part du Diable , first performed in Paris in 1843, see fr: La Part du diable (opéra-comique) in the French Wikipedia
  2. ^ Herman Klein: Great Women-Singers of My Time: with sixteen portraits . London: Routledge, 1931
  3. ^ The houses of Tutzing , Tutzinger Nachrichten, October 14, 2009, PDF
personal data
SURNAME Vogl, Therese
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thoma, Therese (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soprano
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Tutzing
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1921
Place of death Munich