Wolfgang Anheisser

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Wolfgang Anheisser (born December 1, 1929 in Cologne ; † January 5, 1974 there ) was a German opera singer ( baritone ).

Gravestone in the Melaten cemetery

Life

Anheisser took his first singing lessons from his mother, an opera singer. After graduating from high school, he attended the Freiburg Music Academy , where he was a. a. trained with Fritz Harlan. He then attended the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan and then studied singing and musicology as well as German and English with Anni Hartmann from 1955 to 1960 in Johannesburg / South Africa .

After his return to Germany, he sang at many German opera houses from 1961. He made his debut as Nardo in La finta giardiniera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . He found his second artistic home at the German State Opera Unter den Linden, Berlin. His star role there was the title role in the opera The Barber of Seville .

Anheisser died in 1974 after an accident in the Cologne Opera . During a performance of the operetta Der Bettelstudent , where he sang the role of the student Jan, he fell from a balcony onto the stage. He found his final resting place in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne ( Million Allee , between Hauptweg and Lit. G).

Honors

  • In Cologne, Wolfgang-Anheisser-Strasse has been remembering him since 2009.
  • On the occasion of his 80th birthday, a memorial event took place in the Cologne Opera in 2009. It was the start of a new series of singer portraits .
  • Memorial plaque to Wolfgang Anheisser, Gotenring Köln-Deutz
    On the occasion of his 90th birthday in 2019, the association “deutzkultur” put a plaque on Anheisser's house in Cologne-Deutz (Gotenring 17). The plaque was unveiled by the district mayor of Cologne city center, Andreas Hupke.

Opera roles (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Josef Abt, Johann Ralf Beines, Celia Körber-Leupold: Melaten - Cologne graves and history . Greven, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7743-0305-3 , p. 56.
  2. ↑ Recital in memory of Wolfgang Anheisser - The Deutz portal for Cologne Deutz. Retrieved November 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Anheisser, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH 5th January 1974
Place of death Cologne