Ira Malaniuk

Ira Malaniuk ( born January 29, 1919 in Stanislav, † 25 February 2009 in Zirl ) was an Austrian opera singer ( alto). Internationally, it earned good reputation, particularly as a Wagner singer.

Life

Ira Malaniuk grew up in Stanyslaviv in Ukraine. My father was a doctor and high k.u.k. Officer. She studied initially in Lwów in Adam Didur and later in Vienna with the famous singing teacher Anna Bahr - Mildenburg. In 1944 she took part in the Summer Academy of the Mozarteum in Salzburg Empire High School.

In 1945, she debuted at the Graz city theater as Ulrica in Verdi's A Masked Ball. In 1947 she came to the city theater of Zurich, where she sang 1949 in the premiere of the opera The Black Spider by Willy Burkhard and 1951 sang in the German premiere of Igor Stravinsky's The Rake 's Progress. 1956-1972 she was a member of the Vienna State Opera. 1952-1967 she was also a member of the Munich State Opera and 1956-1958 also member of the Staatsoper Stuttgart. From 1968-1977 she had a last permanent engagement at the Vienna Volksoper. There she took character roles in opera and operetta.

At the Vienna State Opera, she sang major roles in their fields ( Eboli in Don Carlos, Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde ), but also took over many smaller roles (eg, Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro ), which they made ​​with their acting skills almost to leading roles.

At the Bayreuth Festival she sang 1951/1952 the Magdalene in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and spontaneously took over for the ailing Elizabeth Höngen within hours without trial Fricka in Das Rheingold. Other roles were in Bayreuth 1952/1953 Brangäne and Fricka, 1951 Grimgerde in Die Walküre, in 1951 and 1953, the second Norn and the Walt diamond in Götterdämmerung.

1956-1966 she performed at the Salzburg Festival, primarily as a concert and oratorio singer in appearance. In 1958 she sang the Adelaide in Arabella by Richard Strauss.

After completing her career, she worked as a singing teacher. In 1971 she became Professor of song interpretation at the Musikhochschule Graz, later University of Music and Performing Arts Graz ( RHC ). An award for young talents bears her name, as well as a concert hall in the former Grazer cavalry barracks, which houses the Institute for singing, song, and oratory of the Copyright Act since 2010.

Ira Malaniuk was March 3rd, 2009 buried in the local cemetery in Zirl.