Hans Hermann Nissen

Hans Hermann Nissen ( born May 20, 1893 in Zippnow near Danzig, West Prussia, † March 29, 1980 in Munich) was a German opera singer in the vocal category baritone.

Life

Hans Hermann Nissen initially trained as a merchant, but then studied from 1916 singing in Berlin with Julius von Raatz -Brockmann and later in England with Manuel Garcia. From 1920 Nissen worked as a singer, initially only as a concert singer. His debut as an opera singer was in 1924 at the Great National Opera in Berlin with the role of the Caliph in the opera The Barber of Bagdad by Peter Cornelius.

1925 Nissen was engaged at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, whose ensemble member he remained until 1967. In 1967 he adopted the role of Don Fernando in Beethoven's Fidelio from his Munich audience.

1936-1937 Nissen sang at the Salzburg Festival in the role of Hans Sachs in Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg under the baton of Arturo Toscanini. In 1943 he sang the role of Hans Sachs also at the Bayreuth Festival. 1938-1942 he joined every year on at the Festival in Sopot Forest Opera. He sang the Telramund in Lohengrin and Wotan / Wanderer in The Ring of the Nibelung.

He has appeared at the Covent Garden Opera in London (1928 as Wotan and Hans Sachs, 1934 as Wotan ), at the Grand Opéra in Paris ( debut in 1930 as Kurvenal ) and at the Metropolitan Opera in New York ( 1938-1939 as Telramund and tungsten ).

More guesting 1930-1932 to the Lyric Opera in Chicago, 1936-1938 at La Scala and the Vienna State Opera.

In the years 1950 and 1951 Nissen also sang back regularly at the Vienna State Opera. He sang a total of 10 different games, including the Telramund, Hans Sachs, the in Tannhäuser, the Kurvenal in Tristan and Isolde, but also games from the German and Italian repertoire, as the speaker in The Magic Flute and the Amonasro in tungsten Aida. In 1959 he was again heard at the Vienna State Opera, as a music teacher in Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss and as Teiresias in Oedipus Rex by Igor Stravinsky.

In addition to the Wagner roles were also great character roles, such as Orest in Elektra, Barak in Die Frau ohne Schatten and Borromeo in Palestrina to his repertoire.

Nissen was until shortly before his death as a singing teacher still active as an artist. He was a professor at the Musikhochschule in Munich.

The passed on through radio broadcasts, live recordings and records of musical work of Hans Hermann Nissen was partially re-released in recent years also on CD.