Viorica Ursuleac
Viorica Ursuleac ( born March 26, 1894 in Czernowitz, Bukovina, † 22 October 1985 in Ehrwald, Tyrol), was an opera singer in the tray dramatic soprano.
Life
Viorica was the daughter of a Greek Orthodox priest. She studied from 1917 to 1922 at the Vienna Music Academy with Filip Forstén and then in Berlin with Lilli Lehmann. In 1922 she made her debut in Zagreb, today's Zagreb, in the role of Charlotte in Werther by Jules Massenet, moved in 1923 to the opera of Chernivtsi, 1924 at the Vienna Volksoper and in 1926 with the Frankfurt Opera, their indene Danten Clemens Krauss, she married her second husband.
In the first of her numerous guest appearances in Dresden in 1929, she sang at the State Opera in Puccini 's opera Madame Butterfly. 1930-1935 she was a member of the Vienna State Opera, the Berlin State Opera 1935-1937 and 1937-1944 at the National Theatre in Munich, where she campaigned with her husband, especially the works of Richard Strauss.
As a conductor, Krauss has managed numerous of her performances, including the premieres of four Richard Strauss operas: Arabella (Dresden, 1933), Peace (Munich 1938) and Capriccio (Munich 1942) and Die Liebe der Danae (Salzburg 1944).
In 1933 she was appointed to the Austrian, 1934 Prussian chamber singer.
Throughout her long stage career, she has presented a total of 84 opera roles according to their own information. International recognition it provided primarily by their interpretations of the main characters in the operas of Richard Strauss, such as the Ariadne and the Arabella. Viorica Ursuleac was also, inter alia, by Verdi and Wagner to see in games and listen. Self there was at the Salzburg Festival from 1930 to 1944 and in Berlin ( 1941). After 1945, she appeared in guest roles, including at the Vienna State Opera, at the Hessian State Theatre in Wiesbaden or at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.
Overall, she has sung 482 Strauss evenings on the stage, most often they occurred as the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier and in Arabella.
1954, after the death of her husband, she ended her career. From 1959 she worked as a teacher at the Salzburg Mozarteum.
Your last thirty years of life she spent at her home in Ehrwald in Tyrol. There was created in 1983 a large film portrait of the singer, which produced Wolf -Eberhard von Lewinski for the Saarland Radio.
After her death, she was buried at her husband's side at the cemetery in Ehrwald.
On 30 August 2006, inaugurated in Chernivtsi on the birthplace of Viorica Ursuleac in which she had spent her youth, a plaque; the house is located in the former New World alley (now Вулиця Шевченка [ Vulycja Ševčenka ] ) № 75
Discography
- A few studio recordings for the German Grammophon (1933, 1936 and 1943), all under the direction of Clemens Krauss
- On LP and CD several radio recordings were released, so complete recordings of operas by Richard Strauss ( Arabella, 1942 Ariadne auf Naxos, 1935, Capriccio, 1953, Der Rosenkavalier, 1942) and Richard Wagner ( The Flying Dutchman, 1944, and Tristan and Isolde [ with Ursuleac Brangäne ], 1948) as well as some song recordings.