Rita Streich

Rita Streich ( born December 18, 1920 in Barnaul, Altai Krai, Russia, † 20 March 1987 in Vienna) was a German coloratura soprano. It was called the Viennese Nightingale and praised as Mozart and Strauss interpreter.

Biography and artistic work

Rita d'état father was interned as a German prisoner of war in Siberia. Her mother was a Russian. After the dismissal of the father a prisoner of war the family moved to Germany, first to eat, then to Jena. Rita was raised bilingual, what was her extremely helpful for their future career. Your voice made in Augsburg and Berlin train. Among her teachers Paula Klötzer, Willi Domgraf - Fassbaender, Erna Berger, who discovered and promoted, and Maria Ivogün.

Her debut as an opera singer, she gave in 1943 at the City Theater of Usti nad Labem in Bohemia in the role of Zerbinetta in the opera Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss. Three years later, she got her first permanent member of the Deutsche Staatsoper in Berlin. She made her debut as a Page in Verdi's Rigoletto. The opera in Berlin, she was a member until 1952 and changed following the Vienna State Opera.

Guest appearances led the artist to Bayreuth, Salzburg, Rome, at La Scala in Milan, Covent Garden, Chicago, Aix -en- Provence and Glyndebourne. In 1957 she undertook an extensive tour of North America and has performed it on all major platforms, inter alia, at the San Francisco Opera.

In 1974, Rita Streich taught at the Folkwang -Hochschule and at the Music Academy in Vienna, in 1983 she gave during the Salzburg Festival master classes and led to the Centre d'art lyrique du Perfectionnement in Nice.

Her repertoire included, inter alia, Games from Idomeneo, Cosi fan tutte, The Abduction from the Seraglio, The Magic Flute, The Marriage of Figaro, Der Rosenkavalier, Ariadne auf Naxos, Der Freischütz and Don Giovanni. As she grew up bilingual, she could sing almost any accent the works of Russian composers such as Rimsky -Korsakov.

In addition, Rita Streich was an outstanding interpreter of the classical operetta. Already at the beginning of her career included the Adele in "Die Fledermaus " or the Fiametta in " Boccaccio " to their repertoire, and was heard in cross sections of the company Polydor under Franz Marszalek them. Later ( in the sixties ) made ​​recordings that Rita Streich led together with the tenor Nicolai Gedda ( "The Gypsy Baron ", " A Night in Venice ", " The Tsarevich ," "The Beggar Student ").

Rita Streich died of a brain tumor. Her grave is located on the Perchtoldsdorfer Cemetery near Vienna.

Discography (selection)

  • Rita Streich - The Viennese Nightingale ( German Grammophon )
  • Folk songs and lullabies ( German Grammophon )
  • Bastien and Bastienne ( German Grammophon )
  • Schubert Lieder ( German Grammophon 1960)
  • Opera Recital ( German Grammophon 1966)
  • Rita Streich sings immortal melodies ( German Grammophon )
  • Die Fledermaus (EMI and audite )
  • Boccaccio (membrane)
  • The Magic Flute ( German Grammophon )
  • Hansel and Gretel ( German Grammophon )
  • The Abduction from the Seraglio ( German Grammophon )
  • Der Rosenkavalier ( German Grammophon )
  • La Bohème - in German ( German Grammophon )
  • Ariadne auf Naxos ( EMI)
  • Successes from the Gitta Alpar - repertoire ( Polydor )
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