Maria Stader
Maria Stader ( born November 5, 1911 in Budapest, Austria - Hungary, † 27 April 1999 in Zurich, born as Maria Molnár ) was a Swiss lyric soprano.
Biography
Maria Molnar suffered with her parents and four siblings under the hardship of the First World War, and came in 1919 as part of child support for Hungary with the Salvation Army to Switzerland to foster parents. Through their mediation they later took the family on Stader in Roman horn, which she adopted in 1928.
1939 married Maria Stader with Hans Erismann, the Music Director of Weinfelden and later choir director of the Zurich city theater. About the man of her singing teacher, Mathilde Baerlocher, she learned the couple Schulthess Geyer know. Stefi Geyer took in the wake of their very. Your singing teacher, Ilona Durigo, she led the couple Hermann and Lily Reiff one ( a student of Liszt ). In Reiffs wrong bush, Walters and the family of Thomas Mann, the whole corona of the Municipal Theatre and Playhouse. Through the mediation of Fritz Busch Maria Stader came a few years later to Tremezzo in the beak - school. Maria Stader was good friends ( whom they had met on Rolf Liebermann ) with the Swiss politician Walther Bringolf as well as with numerous musicians and other artists, especially with Ferenc Fricsay, also with Clara Haskil and with the film director Emil- Edwin Reinert. With Albert Schweitzer they exchanged letters.
In Zurich, the Quartier Hirslanden Maria Stader had their residence, where she was staying with her husband and with her children, Martin and Roland in the fifties and sixties. Above Lake Lucerne, they let himself then build on Rigi Kaltbad a house, the Chalet " Pamina ". In the spirit of music and the height of air, met many of her friends, singers, conductors and intellectuals. In the seventies, she was in Pfäffikon at home. By the end of her life she lived in the Old Town of Zurich, close to Lindenhof Schipfe in the neighborhood.
Training
Your first singing lessons had Maria Stader Mathilde Baerbacher - basement of St. Gallen and from 1930 at their father, Hans Keller, in Konstanz. In 1935, she moved from Ilona Durigo in Zurich, then took her in Tremezzo lessons with Therese Schnabel -Behr, the wife of Artur Schnabel and from 1938 at Giannina Arangi - Lombardi in Milan, by which they in a long line of bel canto, the Pedigree of the bel canto was ranked since 1659. In this tree of bel canto, which begins in 1659 when castrati Pistocchi and which seamlessly all master-pupil ratios lists up to Stader, are also famous names, how to find Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was thanks to the vocal technique transmitted by Arangi Lombardi therefore no wonder that it was Maria Stader Mozart's music was fairly perfectly.
Importance and career
She became especially famous because as an interpreter of Mozart and for their fruitful cooperation with the Hungarian conductor Ferenc Fricsay in performances of ( Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro, The Abduction from the Seraglio, the Great Fair ... but also the Messa Requiem). She was also an outstanding Bach interpreter, principally with Karl Richter and Ferenc Fricsay. They also took with Karel Ancerl the Requiem by Antonín Dvořák on and with Hans Knappertsbusch Fidelio (as Marcellina ).
In 1940 she made her debut at the Stadttheater Zurich as Olympia in The Tales of Hoffmann, and soon became their noble, albeit little powerful voice praised. On the opera stage, the artist appeared only exceptionally and only in a few roles, since their small, delicate figure, it was only 1.44 meters tall, it restricted in their stage repertoire. Your big starring role was the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute, which she sang at the Vienna State Opera, 1949/50, at the Covent Garden Opera London and also at the Stadttheater Zurich. In 1956 she sang in 22 ( concert ) performances in Israel the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor under Ferenc Fricsay.
It was thus save the consuming for some singers effort and maintain a fresh and tender sounding voice up in the 1960s. In 1969, she took leave of the concert stage, in Zurich, she was accompanied by her compatriot Geza Anda, for the last time she was on 7 December 1969, at Mozart 's Requiem at the Philharmonic Hall in New York to hear. Her concert tours have led to the whole world; except in Europe and in America, they also occurred in Japan, South Africa and South America. Maria Stader was a guest of various festivals, including the Salzburg Festival (1947-1962), the Lucerne Festival, the Aspen Festival; by Pablo Casals Festival at Prades, she was invited. She sang under the direction of many famous conductors such as Eugen Jochum, Josef Krips, Eugene Ormandy, George Szell, Carl Schuricht, Rafael Kubelik, Bruno Walter, Hermann Scherchen, Otto Klemperer, Ernest Ansermet and Dean Dixon. Stader had especially Rita Streich, Kim Borg, Ernst Haefliger, Josef Greindl, Kieth Engen and Dietrich Fischer- Dieskau as a singing partner. To some extent, it was the high counterpart of Hertha Topper. Maria Stader had taught until 1951 at the Zurich Conservatory and later led master classes at the opera.
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Publications
- Ferenc Fricsay. In: servant of the music. Unforgettable soloists and conductors of our time in the mirror of friends. Edited by Martin Müller and Wolfgang Mertz. Rainer Wunderlich, Tübingen 1965.
- Collaboration with Fricsay. In: Friedrich Herzfeld (ed.): Ferenc Fricsay. A commemorative book. Rembrandt, Berlin 1964.
- About Wilhelm Furtwängler. In: Recalled Furtwängler. Atlantis, Zurich 1965.
- Johann Sebastian Bach aria " For love my Saviour die," St. Matthew Passion. Photos of Roland Erismann. With a touch and insert two records and a discography. Panton, Zurich 1967 ( series: How to practice masters; 3).
- Take my thanks. Memories. Retold by Robert D. Abraham. With repertoire, discography and name index. Kindler, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-463-00744-4.