Ursula Sutter

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Ursula Sutter (married Nezhoda ; born March 26, 1938 in Bern ) is a Swiss - German opera singer ( mezzo-soprano ) and chamber singer from Baden-Württemberg .

Live and act

Ursula Sutter was born as the second child of the master precision mechanic Ernst Sutter and his wife Johanna, née Herren, in Bern's Länggass district. From childhood she showed great interest in classical music, especially singing. After elementary school and middle school, she switched to business school and completed her commercial training with preference. She began her singing studies at the age of 16 and completed it between 1955 and 1961 with the director of the music high school Fred Müller in Bern. During her vocal training, Sutter worked as a clothes and hairdresser mannequin .

repertoire

Her first engagement took Sutter to the Städtebundtheater Biel-Solothurn , where she took part in three Mozart operas in her first year on stage : as “Cherubino” in Figaro's wedding , as “Donna Giacinta” in La finta semplice and as “Cavaliere Ramiro” in gardener Love «. »La finata semplice was recorded by Swiss television (SF) and broadcast on TV. Between 1961 and 1963 Sutter sang over 160 performances in 12 different roles. Then she was appointed to the Trier City Theater , where she expanded her repertoire with 6 leading roles between 1963 and 1964.

After her marriage to the buffo baritone Günther Wolfram Nezhoda and the birth of her first daughter, she moved to the Essen Opera House , where between 1964 and 1966 she played "Rosina" in Il barbiere di Siviglia ( Gioachino Rossini ) and "Magdalene" in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg ( Richard Wagner ) sang.

After the birth of her second daughter, Sutter was signed to the Stuttgart State Opera , where she stayed in the ensemble for 20 years. The " Wesendonck-Lieder " (Richard Wagner), interpreted by her and accompanied by dancing by the Stuttgart Ballet, attracted particular attention . Her performances as “Hansel” in Hansel and Gretel ( Engelbert Humperdinck ), as “composer” in Ariadne auf Naxos ( Richard Strauss ) and as “Cherubino” in Figaro's wedding ”(Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) are considered legendary . She sang with Mario del Monaco in Otello , with René Kollo in “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg , with Siegfried Jerusalem Sutter interpreted the song cycle Das Lied von der Erde ( Gustav Mahler ) and with Placido Domingo she sang in Manon Lescaut ( Giacomo Puccini ). The motto came from Boleslaw Barlog : "If you want to book mezzo butter, you have to look for the beautiful Sutter."

Sutter sang her last official role at the Stuttgart State Opera as "Frau Reich" from the Lustige Frauen von Windsor ( Otto Nicolai ). Shortly after her retirement, Sutter unofficially jumped in as a “boy” from Giacomo Puccini's Tosca , the role with which she had started her operatic career 30 years earlier, because a colleague was ill .

Ursula Sutter was invited as an interpreter of orchestral songs, concert performances and as a lieder singer. The guest performances have taken her to the State Operas of Vienna , Munich and Hamburg , to the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf / Duisburg as well as to the opera houses in Cologne , Nuremberg , Bonn and Saarbrücken .

Foreign opera houses also invited her to guest performances, including the Bucharest National Opera , where Sutter took part in the Elektra (Richard Strauss) staged by Karlheinz Böhm , or the Teatro San Carlos Lisbon, where she appeared in the Bloody Wedding ( Wolfgang Fortner ), as well the opera of Monte Carlo , where, under the baton of Lovro von Matačić the Salome (Richard Strauss) was performed.

Sutter sang the opening song of the Myrtles ( Robert Schumann ) in the TV feature film An Unworthy Existence , produced by the Süddeutscher Rundfunk Stuttgart in 1970 .

Ursula Sutter spends her old age in Vienna, in the immediate vicinity of her daughters, the operetta singer Tatjana Schullern and the musical singer Patricia Nessy .

Characterization of the voice

Ursula Sutter's vocal range ranges from a clear, full alto to a powerful, multi-faceted dramatic soprano with a special “metallic” timbre, with a range from g to c ′ ′ ′.

Stage roles

Sung stage roles (excerpt):

role piece composer Performance year Director conductor
"Carmen" Carmen Georges Bizet 1978 Ernst Poettgen Carlos Kleiber
"Cherubino" Figaro's wedding WA Mozart 1970 Wolfgang Windgassen Silvio Varviso
"Czipra" Gypsy baron Johann Strauss (son) 1958 NN Armin Jordan
"Dorabella" So fan tutte WA Mozart 1974 NN Eliahu Inbal
"Hansel" Hansel and Gretel Engelbert Humperdinck 1967 NN NN
"Isabella" L'Italiana in Algeri Gioachino Rossini 1972 NN NN
"Composer" Ariadne on Naxos Richard Strauss 1974 Hellmuth Matiasek Eliahu Inbal
"Lucretia" The Rape of Lucretia Benjamin Britten 1969 NN NN
"Maddalena" Rigoletto Giuseppe Verdi 1972 Boleslaw Barlog Klaus Nagora
"Magdalene" The Mastersingers of Nuremberg Richard Wagner 1974 Ernst Poettgen Ferdinand Leitner
"Olga" Eugene Onegin Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1962 NN Ferdinand Leitner
"Preziosilla" La forza del destino Giuseppe Verdi 1976 Ernst Poettgen Joseph Dünnwald
"Rosina" Barber of Seville Gioachino Rossini 1962 NN NN
"Suzuki" Madame Butterfly Giacomo Puccini 1978 NN Carlos Kleiber
"Tsarevich" Boris Godunov Modest Mussorgsky 1972 Günther Rennert Wolfgang Rennert
"3. Lady" Magic Flute WA Mozart 1978 Hans Werner Henze Dennis Russell Davies

World premieres

Discography

  • Carl ORFF - Prometheus (March 24, 1968), State Opera Stuttgart, conductor. Ferdinand Leitner
  • Carlos Kleiber - Verdi: Otello, Stuttgart, State Opera Württemberg, January 24, 1971, live recording :: Ursula Sutter as Emilia - CD8196-2 (2CD) (2012)
  • Voices in Stuttgart - 100 Years of the Württemberg State Opera, VOL. 5: The era of shepherds - finale & aftertaste :: Ursula Sutter / Mozart - the pretended simplicity .

TV recordings

  • Donna Giacinta , in La finta semplice by WA Mozart.
  • Dedication , the opening song of "Myrtles" by Robert Schumann, in An Unworthy Existence , directed by Rolf von Sydow (1970)

Live recordings

  • How beautiful is Princess Salome tonight! , Live scene from Salome (Richard Strauss), State Opera Stuttgart 1977, Rüdiger Wohlers as Narraboth, Ursula Sutter as a soldier.

Honors

  • 1977 honorary title of chamber singer by the Ministry for Science, Research and Art Baden-Württemberg

literature

  • Melso / Zeitschrift für neue Musik 1968 , p. 154 ( books.google.at )
  • Baden-Württemberg Publishing House , 1969, p. 35 ( books.google.at )
  • Opera on television - basic research as part of the research program of the Institute for Theater Studies at the University of Vienna, ed. with funding from the Society for Music Theater, publisher Helga Bertz-Dostal. Neumann, 1971, Volume 2, pp. 804, 805, 853 ( books.google.at )
  • Melos / Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 1977 , p. 155 ( books.google.at )
  • Kurt Honolka - 3000 times music: Stars u. Premieres in Stuttgart a. elsewhere . 1977, p. 185 ( books.google.at )
  • Melos / Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 1978 , p. 238 ( books.google.at )
  • Erik Werba, didactic piece "Magic Flute" in Stuttgart . In: Österreichische Musikzeitschrift , Volume 33, Issue 6, Page 317 ([doi: //.org/10.7767/omz.1978.33.6.317a website])
  • Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1978 , Volume 58, p. 376 ( books.google.at )
  • Melos / Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 1982 , p. XVIII ( books.google.at )
  • Opera 1984 , p. 154 ( books.google.at )
  • Time for Opera - Götz Friedrichs Musiktheater , 1958–1990, p. 137 ( books.google.at )
  • Piper's encyclopedia of musical theater in 8 volumes. University of Bayreuth. Research Institute for Music Theater 1997, p. 673 ( books.google.at )
  • Wilhelm Kosch, Ingrid Bigler-Marschall: Deutsches Theater-Lexikon , Volume 4 (Singer-Tzschoppe), 1998, p. 2483 ( books.google.at )
  • International Who's who in Music and Musicians' Directory . Melrose Press, 1998, p. 545 ( digitized version )
  • Elke Krafka: Theater Biel Solothurn , 2004, p. 203 ( books.google.at )
  • Opernwelt , E. Friedrich Verlag, 2005, Volume 46, P. 68 ( books.google.at )
  • Klaus Günther: The Singer Prince: Gottlob Frick und seine Zeit , 2007, p. 153 ( books.google.at )
  • International Who's who in Classical Music , 2007 p. 773 ( books.google.at )
  • International Who's Who in Classical Music , 2009, p. 799 ( books.google.at )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ursula Sutter: Handwritten memories . 2019
  2. ^ A b Helga Bertz-Dostal: Opera on television: recording of the performance of the Zurich Chamber Opera in the Kurtheater Baden (Canton Aargau). ( books.google.at )
  3. ↑ a b "La finta semplice". youtube.com; accessed on October 30, 2019
  4. ↑ "Sutter Ursula". In: "Bavarian Musicians Lexicon Online"; accessed on October 30, 2019
  5. ^ Archives of the Vienna State Opera accessed on October 30, 2019
  6. ↑ Karl Josef Kutsch, Leo Riemens: Großes Sängerlexikon , ed. Hansjörg Rost. Verlag Saur, 2000, Volume 33, p. 988.
  7. ↑ a b "An Unworthy Existence" (1971) - Full Cast & Crew. IMDb.com; accessed on October 30, 2019
  8. ↑ a b “Dedication” (Myrtles). youtube.com; accessed on October 30, 2019
  9. ↑ Sutter Ursula. In: Operissimo ; accessed on October 30, 2019
  10. ↑ Dicography Carlos Kleiber. thrsw.com; accessed on October 30, 2019
  11. ↑ website. Vocal-Classics.com; accessed on October 30, 2019
  12. ^ Live scene from the Stuttgart State Opera in 1977. youtube.com; accessed on October 30, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Sutter, Ursula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nezhoda, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-German opera singer (mezzo-soprano) and Baden-Württemberg chamber singer
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern