Uwe Kreyssig
Uwe Christian Kreyssig (born September 28, 1930 in Chemnitz ; † May 17, 2008 in Havelsee ) was a German opera singer ( baritone ), opera director and television presenter.
Life
Uwe Kreyssig was the third of four sons of Lothar Kreyssig . In 1937 he moved with his family from Flöha to Hohenferchesar , where his parents had acquired the Bruderhof , a farm. Kreyssig was introduced to music early on in the family circle and originally wanted to be an actor. Participation in student performances at the Pforta State School , which he attended with his brother from 1946, aroused his interest in the theater. For example, he appeared in Hans Sachs's The Breeding of Calves , What You Want by William Shakespeare , Philippe II by Émile Verhaeren , as well as the Singspiele Bastien and Bastienne and The Drama Director by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . In 1949 he was Creon in Antigone and in 1950 he played Oedipus .
His father enabled him to study at the Hebbel Theater in Berlin from 1950 to 1952 . Here he was advised to have his voice checked for vocal possibilities. As a result, he attended the Hochschule für Musik Berlin from 1952 to 1956, especially with the bass-baritone Jaro Prohaska and Paul Schmidtmann. Immediately after graduating, Uwe Kreyssig was engaged at the Komische Oper Berlin , where he got his first role in Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's The Curious Women , directed by Heinz Rückert.
Uwe Kreyssig was often heard in radio recordings of classical but also contemporary music and often appeared in television recordings of classical operas. In mid-1969 he received his own television series with Treffpunkt Operetta , which he supervised as a presenter and which was broadcast until New Year's Eve 1973. Effective June 1, 1990, the Kammersänger was appointed deputy artistic director at the Komische Oper in Berlin, where he had worked as a singer actor from 1956 to 1983 before taking on directing duties in the Federal Republic and the Netherlands . Since 1965 he worked as a director. From 1979 to 1982 Kreyssig worked as an opera director at the Bonn Opera House and later at the Hildesheim City Theater and in Enschede in the Netherlands , where he also set up a studio for young opera singers. He staged a. a. at the Bonn Opera House, at the Wiesbaden State Theater (1984; A Midsummer Night's Dream by Benjamin Britten ) and at the Nuremberg Opera House (1990; Tsar and Zimmermann ).
Uwe Kreyssig also had teaching positions in Berlin and Weimar. Parallel to his work as deputy director of the Komische Oper Berlin, he was also head of the class for opera singers at the Hanover University from 1991 to 1995/1996, which had appointed him professor.
Uwe Kreyssig was married to the singer Hella Jansen since 1961 and the couple had two children. Together with his wife, he moved back to the Bruderhof in Hohenferchesar in 1996 and was elected mayor there. In this role he was involved in the merger with three other municipalities to form the city of Havelsee in 2001 . Two years after a serious illness, Uwe Kreyssig died in May 2008 and was buried in the family grave in Hohenferchesar.
Filmography
- 1965: The clever little fox (studio recording)
- 1970: Hoffmann's Tales (studio recording)
- 1976: The Marriage of Figaro (theater recording)
theatre
actor
- 1955: Werner Egk : Columbus - Report and Portrait - Director: Jaro Prohaska ( Berlin University of Music )
- 1957: Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari : The Curious Women (Arlecchino) - Director: Heinz Rückert ( Komische Oper Berlin )
- 1957: Benjamin Britten : Albert Herring (Pastor) - Director: Joachim Herz (Komische Oper Berlin)
- 1959: Giacomo Puccini : La Bohème (Marcel, painter) - Director: Götz Friedrich (Komische Oper Berlin)
- 1959: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : The Abduction from the Seraglio - Director: Heinz Rückert (Komische Oper Berlin)
- 1960: Robert Kurka : The good soldier Schwejk (Oberleutnant Lukasch) - Director: Joachim Herz (Komische Oper Berlin)
- 1960: Otto Nicolai : The Merry Wives of Windsor (Dr. Cajus) - Director: Carl-Heinrich Kreith ( Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin )
- 1961: Benjamin Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Demetrius) - Director: Walter Felsenstein (Komische Oper Berlin)
- 1961: Kurt Schwaen : Leonce and Lena (Leonce) - Director: Erich-Alexander Winds (Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin - Apollosaal)
- 1961: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Così fan tutte (Guglielmo) - Director: Götz Friedrich (Komische Oper Berlin)
- 1963: Peter Tschaikowski : Pique Dame (Prince Jeletzki) - Director: Wolfgang Kersten (Komische Oper Berlin)
- 1964: Johann Christoph Pepusch / Benjamin Britten : Beggar Opera (narrator and Lockit) - Director: Horst Bonnet (Komische Oper Berlin)
- 1964: Jacques Offenbach : Hoffmanns Tales (Nathanaël) - Director: Walter Felsenstein (Komische Oper Berlin)
- 1964: Richard Strauss : Ariadne auf Naxos (Harlequin) - Director: Erhard Fischer (Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin)
- 1966: Claudio Monteverdi : The Homecoming of Odysseus (Eurymachos) - Director: Götz Friedrich (Komische Oper Berlin)
- 1967: Giuseppe Verdi : La traviata (Marchese d'Obigny) - Director: Walter Felsenstein (Komische Oper Berlin)
- 1967: Siegfried Matthus : The Last Shot (Lieutenant) - Director: Götz Friedrich (Komische Oper Berlin)
- 1967: Modest Mussorgski : Boris Godunow (Jesuit) - Director: Dieter Bülter-Marell (Komische Oper Berlin)
- 1968: Hans Werner Henze : The Young Lord (Secretary) - Director: Joachim Herz (Komische Oper Berlin)
- 1968: Sergei Prokofjew : The love for the three oranges - Director: Walter Felsenstein (Komische Oper Berlin)
- 1969: Nico Dostal : Doktor Eisenbart (Doktor Eisenbart) - Director: Charlotte Morgenstern ( Metropol-Theater Berlin )
- 1969: Giovanni Paisiello : The Barber of Seville (Barber) - Director:? (Komische Oper Berlin)
- 1970: Giacomo Puccini: Gianni Schicchi (Schicchi) - Director: Wolfgang Kersten (Komische Oper Berlin)
- 1972: Georges Bizet : Carmen (gang leader) - Director: Walter Felsenstein (Komische Oper Berlin)
- 1973: Wladimir Rubin : Die Drei Dicken (Dicker) - Director: Natalija Saz (Komische Oper Berlin)
- 1973: Zoltán Kodály : The Adventures of Hary Janos (Sentry) - Director: Walter Felsenstein (Komische Oper Berlin)
- 1974: Sergei Prokofjew: War and Peace (Andrej Bolkonski) - Director: Lev Michailow (Komische Oper Berlin)
- 1975: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro (Count) - Director: Walter Felsenstein (Komische Oper Berlin)
Director
- 1966: Frederick Loewe : My Fair Lady - ( Metropol-Theater Berlin )
- 1967: Carl Millöcker : The Begging Student - (Metropol-Theater Berlin)
- 1968: Johann Strauss : Die Fledermaus - ( Komische Oper Berlin )
- 1970: Carl Zeller : The Bird Dealer - (Metropol-Theater Berlin)
- 1972: Johann Strauss: The Gypsy Baron - (Metropol-Theater Berlin)
- 1982: Georg Friedrich Handel : Poro, re dell'Indie - ( Handel Festival Karlsruhe )
Sound carrier
- 1961: Giacomo Puccini : Turandot (820 231 - Eterna )
literature
- Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Fourth, enlarged and updated edition. Munich 2003. Volume 4: Kainz – Menkes. P. 2512. ISBN 3-598-11598-9 .
- Wilhelm Kosch (Ed.): German Theater Lexicon . Supplementary volume, part 3. K - L. De Gruyter, Berlin [et al.]. Page 206, December 2014. ISBN 978-3-11-031137-2 (accessed from De Gruyter Online).
Web links
- Uwe Kreyssig at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Uwe KREYSSIG: 85th birthday . IN MEMORIAM BIRTHDAYS in September 2015. Online marker. September 2015 edition. Retrieved August 15, 2017
- ↑ Neue Zeit of November 30, 1963, p. 3
- ↑ Neues Deutschland from June 14, 1990, p. 6
- ↑ unsophisticated Biedermeier . Performance review. In: Opera world . Issue June 1990. Pages 40/41.
- ↑ Die Pforte 61/2008, pp. 80–81
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kreyssig, Uwe |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kreyssig, Uwe Christian (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (baritone), opera director and television presenter |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1930 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Chemnitz |
DATE OF DEATH | May 17, 2008 |
Place of death | Havelsee |