Gottlob Frick
Gottlob Frick ( born July 28, 1906 in Oelbronn; † 18 August 1994 Muehlacker ) was a German opera singer in the bass voice.
Life
Gottlob Frick grew up as the youngest of 13 children in a forester's house. His extraordinary bass voice came early, and he sang in the ensemble of the Stuttgart State Opera since 1927. His first appearance as a soloist was Frick in 1934 in the role of Daland ( The Flying Dutchman ) at the State Theatre Coburg.
After engagements in Freiburg and in Königsberg in 1939 he was discovered by Karl Böhm and engaged at the Dresden State Opera, where he scored as King Henry in Lohengrin at once an outstanding success. In Dresden Frick remained until 1950 and sang all the major bass roles: Osmin ( kidnapping ), Sarastro ( Die Zauberflöte ), Rocco ( Fidelio ) - his favorite role, Philip II ( Don Carlos ), hermit ( Freischütz ) and the bass roles in the operas of Richard Wagner.
From 1950 to 1953 Frick sang at the Städtische Oper Berlin, from 1957 to 1967 as a guest at the Covent Garden Opera in London ( 1961/1962 ) and the Metropolitan Opera New York. From 1960 to 1964 he appeared at the Bayreuth Festival as Pogner in Die Meistersinger, Hunding in Die Walküre, Hagen in Götterdämmerung, and as Fasolt in Das Rheingold on. Frick was in 1953 as a permanent guest of the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera and the Bavarian. In Vienna alone, he sang 500 performances. Frick also had significant success as an oratorio singer. Frick was in his time than the typical German bass. The extremely rich vocal and representational means capable of this universal bass player to achieve the extraordinary in the entire bass part.
Never, however, wanted to sing the Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau in Richard Strauss ' Der Rosenkavalier Frick, because he did not feel the Viennese in itself.
Until the 1970s into Frick was heard at the great opera houses. Thus embodied the "man with the black bass voice" in 1977 at the Stuttgart State Opera when he was seventy Pimen ( Boris Godunov ). They were the last performances of his stage career. After that still followed television programs like music is the key or you recognize the tune? , In which he was to experience as van bed ( Tsar and Carpenter ) or as Baculus ( The Poacher ). His last public appearance was Gottlob Frick bloom on January 26, 1985 at a concert in Schießhaus in Heilbronn, on which he is the Hall aria from The Magic Flute, as well as some songs by Robert Stolz ( Where all that, what? And Auf der Heide the last roses) sang.
Gottlob Frick is buried in the cemetery of his hometown Oelbronn. His memory maintains the Gottlob -Frick -Gesellschaft. In his birthplace Oelbronn a Gottlob Frick memorial is set up in the town hall. In the Konzerthaus Mühlehof in Muehlacker the great hall in Gottlob -Frick Hall has been renamed. A place in the city center was dedicated to the singer in Heilbronn.
Others
The great hall of the cultural center Muehlacker Mühlehof was renamed in 2007 in his honor in Gottlob -Frick Hall. In Heilbronn him a square was dedicated and named Gottlob -Frick Square. Founded in 1995, Gottlob Frick Company maintains a memorial in the town hall in Oelbronn - Duerrn. The Enz made design, design and characterize a Gottlob -Frick medal in 2008 in a competition at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Pforzheim. This award is given for significant achievements in the cultural life - given area - especially musical.