Marianne Brandt (contralto)

Marianne Brandt ( born September 12, 1842 in Vienna as Marie Bishop, † July 9, 1921 ibid ) was an Austrian contralto. She looked especially at the Berlin Court Opera, and has performed at numerous houses in Europe and America. It was especially appreciated as an interpreter of Wagner and because of their remarkable vocal range, which also allowed her soprano roles.

Life

Trained in her hometown of Vienna, it was in 1868 after a sensational guest appearance at the Berlin Court Opera as Fides in " Prophet " by Meyerbeer and as Azucena in " Il Trovatore " firmly committed. At the Berlin house she worked until 1886 as first alto.

1869-70 she studied again in Baden -Baden with Pauline Viardot -Garcia. Your she has appeared in 1872-1883 to London and Vienna. Since 1884, she also gained great success at New York's Metropolitan Opera, where she appeared in her career total of 160 times and in 18 different roles. More she has appeared in the next four years on the stages of Rotterdam, Munich, Mannheim, Kassel, Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Basel, Graz, Brno and Riga.

1890, she returned to her hometown of Vienna, where she worked as a singing teacher and appeared in the concert hall. In 1921 she died at an advanced age and was in an honorary dedicated grave in the cemetery Hadersdorf- Weidlingau ( Division 1, Group N, number 9) buried.

Others

1905 was taken up her voice in Vienna on three Pathé cylinders.

Repertoire

Significant roles

  • Rachel in La Juive Fromental Halévy Jacques, Olomouc 1867 ( Debut )
  • Fides in The Prophet of Giacomo Meyerbeer, Berlin 1868
  • Azucena in Il Trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi, Berlin 1868
  • Leonore in Fidelio, London, Covent Garden Opera in 1872 and New York 1884 (EA )
  • Brangäne in Tristan and Isolde, London, Drury Lane Theatre 1882 ( English EA) and New York, 1886 ( American EA)
  • Magdalene in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg by Richard Wagner, New York 1886
  • Astaroth in The Queen of Sheba by Karl Goldmark, New York 1885
  • Adriano in Rienzi by Richard Wagner, New York 1885
  • Eglantine in Euryanthe by Carl Maria von Weber, New York 1887

Other roles

  • Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, New York
  • Amneris in Aida, New York
  • Siebel in Gounod's Faust, New York
  • Statira in Olimpie by Gasparo Spontini
  • Ortrud in Lohengrin
  • Fricka and Walt diamond in Der Ring des Nibelungen
  • Margarethe in Genoveva by Robert Schumann
  • Epicharis in Nerone by A. Rubinstein
  • Edvige in William Tell by Rossini
  • Leonora in La Favorite by Donizetti
  • Morgana in Merlin by Goldmark
  • Maddalena in Rigoletto

Other notable investments

  • Hermione by Max Bruch in Berlin in 1872 (UA)
  • In The Maccabees by A. Rubinstein, Berlin 1875 (UA)
  • In Ekkehard by Johann Joseph Abert, Berlin 1878 ( UA)
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