Viktoria Blank
Viktoria Blank , also Victoria Blank ( 1859 in Munich - March 4, 1928 ibid) was a German opera singer ( alto ) and vocal teacher .
Life
Immediately after attending the secondary school for girls - where even she showed good vocal resources - she, not yet quite 15 years old, took singing lessons from the court opera singer Louise Radecke . After three years of hard studies, she started working as an alto at the Cologne City Theater in 1878. Her artistic powers continued to develop there and hardly a year had passed when she received a call to the royal court theater in her hometown, where she regularly took part in separate performances for King Ludwig II .
On June 29, 1888, she sang the fairy king (actually a bass role) at the Munich Opera in the world premiere of Richard Wagner's Die Feen . She has made guest appearances on major German theaters, a. a. at the court opera of Dresden, at the court theaters of Stuttgart and Karlsruhe. In 1900 she became the Königl. appointed Bavarian chamber singer.
In 1909, after 30 years at the Court Opera, she ended her stage career and then worked as a vocal teacher. In 1920 she was seen in a silent film .
The young Richard Strauss dedicated two of his Five Songs Op. 15 to her, but Blank never sang them in public.
Filmography
- 1920: The master's right
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 102, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- German Stage Yearbook 1929 . Verlag Genossenschaft Deutscher Bühnen-Members , Berlin 1929, p. 101
Web links
- Viktoria Blank in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Viktoria Blank at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- Viktoria Blank at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eisenberg, p. 101
- ^ Hurt Hommel: The separate performances before King Ludwig II of Bavaria . Munich 1963, p. 248
- ↑ Max Steinitzer, Richard Strauss , Paderborn 2011, p. 26
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blank, Victoria |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Blank, Victoria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (alto) and singing teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 4, 1928 |
| Place of death | Munich |