Gustav Neidlinger

Gustav Neidlinger ( born March 21, 1910 in Mainz, † 26 December 1991 in Bad Ems ) was a German singer (bass - baritone).

Work

It seems that Richard Wagner had the role of Alberich in the " Ring des Nibelungen" written especially for him ( Alberich is referred to in the title of the tetralogy " Nibelung ". ) Many times Neidlinger sung this game on stage and record. Similar effects have his interpretations of the Flying Dutchman, Klingsor in Parsifal, Pizarro in Fidelio and Iago in Otello.

But not only on demonic games and villains roles he specialized. Another role was the pompous, unintentionally funny Mayor van bed in Lortzings Zar und Zimmermann, his wise old Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger, Falstaff in Verdi's opera of the same or the Colonel Olle village in Millöckers The Beggar Student ( "Oh, I've got it as it is on the shoulder kissed ... ").

The training to become a singer, he was at the Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main, 1931, he made ​​his debut at the Stadttheater in Mainz, where he worked until 1934. At the Hamburg State Opera, he worked from 1935 to 1950. From 1950 he was a member of the ensemble of the Staatsoper Stuttgart, since 1977 honorary member. Since 1956 he was also a member of the Vienna State Opera. He has appeared at all the leading opera houses, as in Paris, Milan, London, Edinburgh, New York. At the Bayreuth Festival, he worked in fifteen seasons with as Alberich, as well as Telramund ( Lohengrin ), Kurvenal ( Tristan and Isolde ) and Klingsor ( Parsifal ), in Die Meistersinger, he gave the shoemaker poet Hans Sachs and the master baker Kothner, but also took the cameo role of the night watchman. He also worked as a song and oratorio singer.

Honors

Discography

Selection

  • CD edition Gustav Neidlinger - Hamburger Archive for Song Art (three CDs: Wagner, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Marschner, Lortzingstraße, Flotow, Verdi, R. Strauss, Offenbach, Millöcker, Orff )
  • Bass part in J. S. Bach: Mass in B Minor. Vienna in 1959, cond: Hermann Scherchen ( German Grammophon ).
  • Jules Massenet: Manon. 1950, Dir: William Schüchter ( Myto ).
  • Van bed in Albert Lortzingstraße: Zar und Zimmermann. Stuttgart 1952, Dir: Ferdinand Leitner ( German Grammophon ).
  • Olle village in Carl Millöcker: The Beggar Student ( cross-section), Dir: Werner Schmidt- Bölcke.
  • W.A Mozart:. The Marriage of Figaro. Vienna, Dir: Clemens Krauss ( Preiser ).
  • Masetto in W. A. Mozart: Don Giovanni. NDR Hamburg 1951, Dir: Leopold Ludwig ( Urania ).
  • Tramp in Carl Orff: Die Kluge. London 1956, Dir: Wolfgang Sawallisch (EMI).
  • Richard Strauss: Daphne. NDR, Dir: Arthur Gruber ( Myto ).
  • Colonna in Richard Wagner Rienzi. Stuttgart 1957, Dir: Lovro von Matacic ( Living Stage).
  • Telramund in Richard Wagner: Lohengrin. Scala Milano 1965, Dir: Wolfgang Sawallisch ( Living Stage).
  • Kurvenal in Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde. Bayreuth 1953, Dir: Eugen Jochum ( melodrama ).
  • Kurvenal, Holland Festival The Hague 1959, Dir: Ferdinand Leitner ( Myto ).
  • Kurvenal, Staatsoper Stuttgart 1973, Dir: Carlos Kleiber ( Living Stage).
  • Kothner in Richard Wagner: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg in 1956, Dir: Rudolf Kempe (EMI).
  • Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Buenos Aires 1968, Dir: Ferdinand Leitner ( Living Stage).
  • Alberich in Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold. RAI 1953, Dir: Wilhelm Furtwängler (EMI).
  • Alberich in The Ring of the Nibelung ( Das Rheingold, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung ). Bayreuth 1953, Dir: Clemens Krauss ( Gala ); 1955, Dir: Keilberth ( Testament); 1956 and 1957, Dir: Hans Knappertsbusch ( melodrama ); 1967 Dir: Karl Böhm ( Philips).
  • Alberich, ring.. Vienna 1958, 1962, 1964 Dir: Georg Solti ( Decca ).
  • Klingsor in Richard Wagner: Parsifal.. Bayreuth 1954 Dir: Hans Knappertsbusch ( melodrama ).
  • Klingsor in Richard Wagner: Parsifal.. Bayreuth 1962 Dir: Hans Knappertsbusch (Philips).
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