Hans Hotter
Hans Hotter ( born January 19, 1909 in Offenbach am Main, † December 6, 2003 in Munich) was a German bass-baritone.
Hans Hotter After leaving school philosophy at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich and singing at the Munich Academy of Music in Matthew Romans. In 1930 he made his debut in Opava. At the age of twenty-two years he sang the " Wanderer" in Siegfried, the third opera of Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.
Other early stations were Wroclaw and Prague before he was hired in 1934 to Hamburg and in 1937 to Munich. Here he acquired all the major baritone roles of the German compartment, especially Richard Wagner, as well as Richard Strauss, participated in the world premieres of the operas of Peace, Capriccio and Die Liebe der Danae Hotter. But he also sang frequently Mozart and Verdi. His career has focused on the big houses in Munich and Vienna.
Between 1952 and 1966 he worked regularly at the Bayreuth Festival. In particular, as a Dutchman and Wotan, but also as Gurnemanz ( Parsifal ) and Hans Sachs reached his interpretations reference character.
Even in old age lent his charismatic figure ambivalent characters like Schigolch ( in Lulu until 1992) imposing stage presence (last stage role, Munich, February 2001: Prince Regent in The Opera Ball by Richard Heuberger ). In addition, he rose to become the most important song singers of his generation. A century recording is his recording of the song cycle Die Winterreise by Franz Schubert with Gerald Moore as a piano accompanist from the year 1955. Again this vote technically very demanding work, he offered up in the 1990s to stay in tune firmly and securely in recitals on stage dar.
In 1977 he was appointed by the Vienna Academy of Music professor. His 1979 in the small hall of the Munich Gasteig Barred master class for young singers was recorded by the Saarland Radio and broadcast in the documentary film " Hans Hotter " by Wolf- Eberhard von Lewinski in the ARD program.
In 1996 his autobiography May favored me in Kindler Verlag. In 1998 he was awarded the Honorary Ring of the Vienna
His powerful, distinctive baritone mated happy with a refined, corresponding to the song singing technique. There was also a display force of great intensity and intelligence.
Clips
- Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman - Act 1
- Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman - Act 2
- Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman - Act 3
Daland: Kurt Böhme, Senta: Helene Werth, Erik: Bernd Aldenhoff, Mary: Res Fischer, helmsman: Helmut Krebs, Dutch: Hans Hotter - Choir and Symphony Orchestra of the Norddeutscher Rundfunk - Wilhelm Schüchter - Hamburg 1951