Viktor Christian Schmitt

Viktor Christian Schmitt ( November 24, 1844 in Frankfurt am Main - February 24, 1900 in Vienna ) was a German opera singer with a tenor voice . He was a member of the Vienna Court Opera ensemble for 25 years.

Life, work

Viktor Christian Schmitt's grandmother, Maria Theresia Schmitt-Klemm , came from Vienna. She worked as a singer and actress in Frankfurt am Main for many years. She died on January 1, 1856.

Viktor Schnitt took singing lessons with Luise Reuss-Belce in Frankfurt am Main and made his debut in 1865 as Gomez in Kreuzer's night camp in Granada at the Stadttheater Freiburg . He stayed there for a season. From 1869 he spent one season in Dessau, Lübeck, Mainz, then two seasons in Bremen and then one season in Breslau. He also appeared in the Hamburg City Theater . From 1875 until his death he was a member of the ensemble of the kuk Hofoper in Vienna. He made his debut as Jonas in Meyerbeer's The Prophet . He was mostly busy buffo and character subjects. His star roles included David in the Meistersinger von Nürnberg , which he had played in Dessau and Hamburg, and the mime in the Ring of the Nibelung . He embodied David only 16 times in Vienna, the Rheingold mimes 40 times and the Siegfried mimes 68 times. There were ten roles in which he was seen and heard particularly often in Vienna: Kunz Vogelsang 66 times, Don Basilio in Figaro's wedding 71 times, Jaquino 72 times, Monostatos 76 times, Junker Spärlich 84 times. times, Ruiz 85 times, Heinrich the Schreiber 96 times, Don Alvar in Meyerbeer's African 98 times, Tavannes in Meyerbeer's Huguenots 147 times and the Remendado 198 times.

literature

• Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Walter de Gruyter 2012, vol. 4, p. 4234.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Walter Killy (ed.) Et al .: Dictionary of German Biography . Vol. 9: Schmidt-Theyer. Munich 2005, p. 4

Web links

• Viktor Schmitt's appearances at the Vienna State Opera