Rosine Stoltz
Rosine Stoltz, whose real name was Victoire or Victorine Noël, ( born January 13, 1815 in Paris, † July 30, 1903 ibid ) was a French opera singer, the voice Mezzo soprano.
- 2.1 amours and marriages
- 2.2 The Son
Career
Childhood and education
As the daughter of the caretaker couple Florentin Noël and Clara Victorine Stoll grew up in Paris in modest circumstances on the Boulevard du Montparnasse. Even as a child she invented a different origin story, since her ( = German Christmas French Noël ) seemed the own surname ridiculous. At the same time she was two years older. They claimed to be born as a Rosé Niva in Spain on 13 February 1813. It was very early then wound up in Paris, where her mother lead a house on Boulevard du Montparnasse, in the whole district as la mère Noël known.
After the death of her father moved Victorines mother to a job at the Paris Opera. This daughter got her first contacts with the world of opera and went through a musical education in Alexandre- Étienne Chorons Royal Institute of classical and religious music. Choron would later take over management of the Paris Opera. The accidental coincidence of the given her birth date with the date of death of the Earl of Berry promised her the affection his widow, the Countess of Berry, the fact it was concerned that mother and daughter Noël in the genteel surroundings of the Rue du Regard in the 6th arrondissement could move. Countess Berry also supported financially Victorines vocal and theater training.
Early success
In the 1830 revolution, the Institute Charon was closed and Victorine broke off her vocal training. Already in 1831 she received through the mediation of another protégé, the Baron Ternaux, a job as a chorus girl at the Théâtre du Parc in Brussels. In this prestigious house, the singer performed in the poetic comedy Les Trois Châteaux and soon after in the Fluctuating Fille de Dominique to under her first stage name Rosine Ternaux. Your path led through engagements as a second singer in spa and Antwerp to Lille in 1834, where she sang her first professional games. In the same year she returned to the Opera Antwerp. Here she had so much success that the director they undertook back to Brussels, when he in 1835 became head of the Théâtre du Parc.
In the theater, where she still debuted as a simple chorus than four years earlier, she was announced as the newly discovered star and now called itself Héloïse Stoltz. The audience gave her an Olympic triumph at the world premiere of Jacques Fromental Halévy's opera La Juive. My first teacher Choron, now head of the Paris Opera, was attentive to his former pupil, which was celebrated in Brussels as exciting comedienne as well as a great singer.
Opera Diva
1837 staged Charles -Edmond Duponchel for the Paris Opera also Halévy La Juive and occupied on the recommendation of the tenor Adolphe Nourrit and on the advice of Charon in the starring role Victorine by her stage name Rosine Stoltz, she used from now on exclusively. In the overwhelming success in this opera followed by others in the Huguenots by Giacomo Meyerbeer and Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber.
1840 Rosine Stoltz took the role of Leonore in The favorite by Gaetano Donizetti. A little later she sang the role of the Queen of Cyprus, Odette in Halévy's Charles VI.
In the following ten years Rosine Stoltz celebrated one success after another at the Paris Opera. She sang the leading roles in 14 operas. Audiences and critics were at her feet. Theophile Gautier had no doubt that it occupies a special position among the best efforts of the opera, and praised it as the only lyrical tragic actress of her era.
Unfortunately tarnishes the luster of their undoubted skills the human image of the celebrated singer. Your arrogance and intrigue finally prepared her career at the Paris Opera, a sudden and unexpected end of it. In angry arrogance she offered to the royal theater Commission to amend its contract to release prematurely. The Commission accepted the offer, and Rosine Stoltz left in March 1847, the then most important opera house. From then on they were first sung at French provincial theaters and in neighboring countries, from 1852 onwards only to the great stages of western and southern Europe, and North and South America, but always returned briefly to Paris and then lived on the first hotel in the city, the Cosmopolite in the avenue de l' Opéra. Often she was also a guest of Duke Ernst II of Saxe -Coburg and Gotha, one of her most ardent admirers, and then resided in Gotha, without, however, in one of the ducal theater in Gotha and Coburg ever occur.
1852, 1853, 1855 and 1859, she was of Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, personally invited to perform at State Theatre of Rio de Janeiro. They received an annual salary of up to 400,000 francs. The ruler was not only purely musical interests. Once he at a charity event, sang at the Rosine Stoltz, sprinkle the road from the apartment of the singer to the theater with rose petals. She returned early in 1855 for a short time at the Paris Opera back to celebrate the specially written for her role of Fides in the opera Le prophète by Meyerbeer, before she finally retired from the Paris Opera scene.
1856 she appeared again temporarily in the Brussels opera house with the romantic opera Santa Chiara, which had been created Duke Ernst II of Saxe -Coburg -Gotha especially for them. By 1865 she met another guest contract at La Scala, after which it no longer appeared in public.
Private life
Love affairs and marriages
Her seductive femininity, combined with boundless ambition, childish fantasies and pronounced mendacity, not only shaped Rosines career as an opera star, but also their relationship to men. So she managed always, by intrigue, to make connections to the upper class, and especially the nobility. Some of her amours were known as the. Léon Pillet, the temporary head of the Paris Opera, and with Jean- Gaspard Deburau, the Pierrot of the Théâtre des Funambules, which they allowed financially the equipment for their own theater Particularly by its connection with Pillet she could turn off some of its potential rivals, the soprano Julie Dorus -Gras. The fact that this maneuver contributed their ultimately a bad reputation not only within the theater company, but also in public, they bothered little.
By his own admission, she was married three times, but this is to doubt. It is certain only that they in Brussels the lawyer and administrator of the Théâtre de la Monnaie, Alphonso Auguste Lescyer, married on March 2, 1837, from which they but soon broke up (no later than 1847? ).
1872 had them in the Gazette musicale published by a somewhat vague indication that she had the Duke Carlo Raimondo Lesignano di San Marino geehelicht. However, this could not be possible, because a noble family Lesignano was after quite reliable French Adelslexikon never existent. They also referred to himself in said display quite hochstaplerisch as Madame la Comtesse de Ketschendorf Rosina, born Marquise d' Altavilla, instead born Noël as it would correspond to the truth.
In 1878 she gave her third marriage to Don Emanuel Godoy de Bassano, Princeps de la Paz, known. This marriage is probably due to the actual existence of this princely house, but it is nowhere documented.
The son
After Rosine Stoltz had left the Paris Opera in 1847, sold it in May of the year without the knowledge of her lover Léon Pillet by professional whose failure at the opera his villa and the whole, over the years it has acquired valuable device. At that time she was pregnant.
On January 21, 1848 came out of wedlock, her son Charles Raymond to the world, as was his father 20 years later, Carl de Ketschendorf, in his Legation Councillor of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in Paris stated. But you yourself stated, " The Prince Napoléon Bonaparte, who loved me in exile, his father is. " Both versions are unlikely as Rosines Another Journey shows.
Baroness of Ketschendorf
During their abstinence from the Paris Opera world from March 1847 held Rosine Stoltz, as already mentioned, many a time, and as reported for a longer time, in the Thuringian town of Gotha on. Duke Ernst II of Saxe -Coburg and Gotha, his character a friend of art and singers, gave her a reasonable accommodation in a castle-like mansion and visited them there, far away from his residence and his wife in Coburg. The popular Duke, childless in his marriage and with no direct successor, boasted later repeated it, " out of wedlock to have been by no means childless ". 1856 honored the Duke the revered opera singer with the specially written by him for her romantic opera Santa Chiara, which she embodied in Brussels on stage.
Rosine Stoltz pressed the Duke, they ennoble virtue of his office, and pushed always as basic well-being of her son Charles before. Your repeated short stays in Paris in 1860, she used to have there by the architect Pierre -Joseph Olive build an extraordinary house in the style of Pompeii, which was acquired in 1874 by Auguste Heriot and demolished in 1882 by Olympe Heriot. Ernst II finally lifted in 1865 in the peerage. She must henceforth call the baroness of Stolzenau and from 1868 Baroness von Ketschendorf, her son from then Karl Freiherr von Ketschendorf what Ernst II probably to moved to invent an almost same father.
In the same year Stoltz received from Ernst II Ketschendorf the castle at Coburg with the adjoining park land for 100,000 francs. She had, in turn, made possible by Ernst II, demolish the castle and rebuild in the Gothic Revival style according to their ideas and the plans of the architect Georg Coburg Rothbart. Here they resided for two years and then all went back to the hotel Cosmopolite her hometown of Paris.
Age
It seems that she wanted to atone for the age of their countless lies and missteps in with partly senseless boons. My considerable fortune she had converted monthly in an annual pension of 75,000 francs. But almost all of their income they donated to good causes of their choice of a certain monks. At her death in 1903 she had a centime, and was buried at the expense of the Paris office in a pauper's grave.
Her son Charles of Ketschendorf had died four years before her and his eldest son Ernst fell in 1873 as a British citizen in the Boer War. The younger grandson of the singer, Arcadius, 1913 put down the name of Ketschendorf and adopted as the English national also the name of Kerry.
It should not go unmentioned that Rosine Stoltz has had published their own song compositions in a collection of ten tunes. They are loud criticism " not bad " have been.