Ingeborg Hallstein
Ingeborg Hallstein (* May 23, 1936 in Munich ) is a German opera singer ( coloratura soprano).
Biography and artistic work
Ingeborg Hallstein was born in 1936 in Munich as daughter of the well-known soprano and singing teacher Elisabeth Hallstein. At age 16, even during her school years, she began to study singing with her mother.
1957 was the only 21 -year-old Hallstein her first engagement at the Stadttheater Passau and made his debut there as Musetta in Puccini's La Bohème. In 1958 she was offered a contract at the Theater Basel, but was brought in 1959 by Willy Duvoisin as a coloratura soprano at the Munich Gärtnerplatztheater.
In August 1960 Ingeborg Hallstein made his debut as Rosina in Mozart's La finta semplice at the Salzburg Festival, to which she returned again and again in the course of their career. In 1966 she starred in the premiere of the opera The Bassariden by Hans Werner Henze. From here it was also engaged by the then director Rudolf Hartmann at the Bavarian State Opera, of which she was a permanent member of the ensemble from 1961 to 1973.
From her sung on stage opera roles were in the subsequent period, among other things Konstanze ( The Abduction from the Seraglio), Gilda ( Rigoletto ), Violetta (La traviata ), Sophie ( Der Rosenkavalier ), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro ), Zerbinetta ( Ariadne auf Naxos), Aminta ( The Silent Woman ), Olympia (Les Contes d' Hoffmann), Ninetta ( the Love for three Oranges ), Fiorilla ( Il turco in Italia ), Isabella (L' Italiana in Algeri ), Marcellina ( Fidelio ), Despina ( Così fan tutte ) and Adele ( Die Fledermaus ).
She has appeared in nearly every major opera houses in the world, she sang at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Hamburg, Stuttgart and Vienna State Opera, the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, at the Royal Opera House in London under Otto Klemperer, and designed by Herbert von Karajan in 1962 at the Theater an der Vienna on the occasion of the reopening of one of her signature roles - the Queen of the night in Mozart's Magic Flute.
With their bell-like, up to the highest heights ranging voice, she is one of the most important coloratura sopranos of the second half of the 20th century. In addition to operas and operettas, the art song was another artistic focus Ingeborg Hallstein, which they pursued in numerous recitals at home and abroad.
An exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon ( Polydor ) resulted in recordings of numerous operas, operettas, musicals and song recordings. In addition to her opera and concert performances, she starred in numerous television productions of operettas and operas and also appeared in major television entertainment shows on (Peter Alexander Show, Dalli Dalli, guest star at odds and ends, etc. ).
1979 Ingeborg Hallstein was appointed as a professor of singing at the Academy of Music in Würzburg. Due to their increasing educational work, she moved slowly in the connection from the stage. Until 2006, she worked in Würzburg, today ( 2009) they are exclusively private lessons, holding master classes at home and abroad and is a sought-after judge at vocal competitions.
For their achievements, among others, to the young singer, was awarded the Bavarian chamber singer in 1976, the Federal Cross of Merit, 1996, the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class, and the 1999 Bavarian Order of Merit. Your commitment to the music of Johann Strauss ( son ) paid tribute to the Johann Strauss Society in Coburg in January 2007 with the honorary patronage.