Hilde Konetzni
Hilde Konetzni ( born March 21, 1905 in Vienna, † April 20, 1980 ibid; actually Hilde Koneczny ) was an Austrian opera singer ( lyric-dramatic soprano).
Life and career
Hilde Konetzni was discovered by her sister Anny Konetzni, who was also a singer. After completing her training at the New Vienna Conservatory with Rudolf Nilius among others she made her debut in 1929 at the Municipal Theatre of Chemnitz as Sieglinde in Die Walküre, while her sister Anny sang the role of Brünnhilde. In Prague, she continued her studies even at Ludmilla Prohaska Neumann.
In the season 1931/32 she was engaged at the Municipal Theatre of Gablonz and went in 1932 to the German Theatre in Prague, where she remained until 1935, and took over opera roles of the young dramatic subject and the dramatic soprano tray. Achievements came with the roles of Leonora ( Il Trovatore ) and Agathe ( Der Freischütz ). In 1936 she sang in the German premiere of Janáček's Katya Kabanowa the title role.
In 1936 she was engaged at the Vienna State Opera, which she was a permanent member until 1959, when their commitment of opera director Karl Böhm was dissolved. Then she was back from 1963 to 1973 member of the House on the ring. Here she made her debut as Elisabeth in Tannhäuser. Together with her sister Anny Konetzni it was one of the tips of the State Opera ensemble.
Konetzni occurred in 1936, 1939 and 1941 at the Salzburg Festival and sang Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, 1937 CHRYSOTHEMIS in Elektra, 1938, Leonore in Fidelio and Elisabeth in Tannhäuser and 1939, Agathe in Der Freischütz. Its special gloss roles included the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier, she represented from 1937 to 1939 and again in 1946 and they also embodied in the Vienna Opera 1947-1960 in 40 performances.
On August 16, 1961, she worked in Salzburg in the world premiere of the opera The mine at Falun Rudolf Wagner- Régeny in a small role with. In 1940 she sang at the Hamburg State Opera in the German premiere of Fried Walters Queen Elizabeth. In 1938 she appeared at the Glyndebourne Festival as Donna Elvira; she was at La Scala (1950 as Sieglinde and as Gutrune in the Ring Cycle under Wilhelm Furtwängler in 1951 in Prince Igor by Borodin ), at the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires and at the Covent Garden Opera House as guests, where they 1938 first role in the CHRYSOTHEMIS sang Elektra and 1938-39, 1947 with the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera, and again in 1955 occurred as Sieglinde and as Gutrune in the ring of the Nibelung. Great attention she found in London in 1938, when she took over the role of the Marschallin for the suddenly ill Lotte Lehmann during a performance of Der Rosenkavalier.
1937 and 1939 they undertook together with Marta Krasová, Henk Noort, Joel Berglund and Alexander Kipnis concert tours in North America. On 22 July 1946 she sang the title role in the premiere of the opera Niobe by Heinrich Suter master at the Zurich Opera House.
Like many others, also Konetzni 1938, after the Anschluss of Nazi propaganda for the election manifesto of the Viennese artist for " referendum " is available.
Guest performances Konetzni to the Grand opéra Paris (1936 as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, 1943 as Sieglinde, 1949 as the Marschallin ), the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires ( 1949), at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels ( 1950 and 1951), at the Opera of Antwerp (1938 ), at the Opera House of Zurich (1938 ) and Amsterdam (1937 title role in Euryanthe of Weber).
Her extensive stage repertoire included not only the games mentioned so far, the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro, the Senta in The Flying Dutchman, the Elsa in Lohengrin, the title role in Schumann's Genoveva. the Rezia in Oberon by Weber, in the Verdi operas Elisabetta in Don Carlos, Amelia in the masked ball and Desdemona in Othello, the Marguerite in Faust by Gounod, the Giulietta in Tales of Hoffmann, Marie in The Bartered Bride, Rosalinde in the bat and Saffi in the Gypsy Baron.
Towards the end of her career took Konetzni thanks to her acting talent yet diverse character roles as Mary in The Flying Dutchman, the Mother Goose in The Rake 's Progress by Stravinsky, in The Bartered Bride, the Principessa in Suor Angelica by Puccini, the dresser in Lulu by Katinka mountain and the wife of the village judge in Jenufa by Janacek. With the Filipjewna in Eugene Onegin in Vienna they took leave of the stage.
Hilde Konetzni was in a grave of honor in Vienna buried at the Central Cemetery (Group 32C, No. 45).