Wilma Lipp
Wilma Lipp ( born April 26, 1925 in Vienna) is an Austrian soprano.
Biography
Wilma Lipp grew born as the daughter of an architect in Vienna's Hietzing in the district Dobling on. Aged 11 years Lipp received singing lessons, until Friedl Sindl and then among others Toti dal Monte and Anna Bahr - Mildenburg at the Academy of Music in Vienna. At the age of 17 she made her debut in Vienna as Rosina in The Barber of Seville in an open-air performance at Heldenplatz. In 1945 she was engaged by the Vienna State Opera as an apprentice and later as a member of the ensemble.
At the beginning Lipp was heard ( The Bartered Bride), Sandman and Dew Fairy ( Hansel and Gretel ), Barbarina ( The Marriage of Figaro ), Countess Ceprano ( Rigoletto ), Italian singer ( Capriccio ) and other small roles in such roles as Esmeralda. A first trip to the "big" trade put the Adele in Die Fledermaus is a game that Wilma Lipp has sung nearly twenty years with great success.
The first major role that she received was, was the Queen of the Night in Mozart's Magic Flute. This task catapulted from the understudy of Papagena to premiere cast of the Queen, because Maria Stader canceled and the conductor of the performance, Josef Krips, gave her this opportunity. This Lipp 's breakthrough, first in Vienna and Salzburg, following the world in this game.
This was followed by invitations to the most important opera houses in the world such as the La Scala, the Paris Opera, the Bavarian State Opera, the German Opera in Berlin, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Salzburg Festival (as Constance, Queen of the Night and Servilia ), the Bayreuth Festival (as Waldvogel ) and the Bregenz Festival (as Annina in A Night in Venice, Adele and Mistress Ford and Marie in the Bartered bride) and the festivals in Edinburgh (as Constance ).
During this time she also became the first Konstanze its first complete recording in the recording studio under the direction of Josef Krips with colleagues from the Vienna Mozart Ensemble. This game took over Lipp of Erna Berger at the Salzburg Festival, as this ill. Shortly thereafter, Lipp was heard in all parts of the subject at many opera houses, which at that time were regarded as coloratura and then Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata and the title role in Massenet's Manon included.
In addition, Wilma Lipp was very present in the concert hall as well as in the field of sacred music, so she sang regularly at the Musikverein in Vienna and completed concert tours including through South and North America.
1953 she was appointed 28 -year-old the youngest opera singer in the entire history of the Vienna State Opera, which at the time caused a huge stir.
From the reopening in 1955 the Vienna State Opera, where she still sang Konstanze, Queen of the Night and Oscar and Musetta, she began her repertoire lyrical to many and Mozart specialist dramatic roles such as Mozart's Zerlina ( Don Giovanni), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro ) or Donna Elvira ( Don Giovanni) to expand. This brought further large compartment extensions such as Marguerite ( Faust ), Antonia (Les Contes d' Hoffmann), Nedda (I Pagliacci ), with which she performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, or Eva ( Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg).
The reopening of the Theater an der Wien in 1962 was Wilma Lipp first time no longer the Queen of the Night, but Pamina in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute at the side of Nicolai Gedda as Tamino under the baton of Herbert von Karajan.
1964 debuted Wilma Lipp in the U.S. in San Francisco with Sophie, Alice Ford ( Falstaff ), the Nedda and Micaela, expanded the already enormous gas Beasts to Brussels, Paris, Buenos Aires and Zurich, where she sang operetta again (Lisa in the Land of Smiles, Anna Elisa Paganini ).
In the early 1970s began Wilma Lipp to retire from the stage after long years of roles such as the daughter ( Cardillac ), Euridice ( Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice ), Marguerite, Nedda, Contessa Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro ), Marie, Rosalinde ( The bat), Alice Ford ( Falstaff ), Pamina ( The Magic Flute ) and Eva had sung, and to teach as a teacher for 18 years at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.
Her pupils included, among other things, Kathleen Cassello, Birgid Steinberger, Ingrid Habermann, Eva Lind and Iride Martinez. These singers were successful, particularly in the " Lipp roles".
In the last years of her work as a singer, she starred opposite her home venue, the Vienna State Opera, and at the Vienna Volksoper ( including as Laura, Micaela and as the Countess Zedlau ) again at the Bregenz Festival ( among others as Rosalinde, Laura and concerts ) at the Zurich Opera and the Salzburg Festival. With the Leitmetzerin Marianne in Der Rosenkavalier, she gave her stage farewell after nearly forty years of theater activity in the early 1980s in Vienna (June 5, 1981) and at the Salzburg Festival.
1998 they retired and is now retired.
Awards
Footage
- Immortal Mozart - Wilma Lipp as Konstanze ( excerpts from The Abduction from the Seraglio, Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro )
- The Dreimaederlhaus - Wilma Lipp is seen at the end of the film itself with Schubert's Ave Maria.
- The Cardinal - Wilma Lipp plays the role of a Catholic in the Nazi era.
- Der Rosenkavalier - Salzburg Festival 1982 Conducted and directed by Herbert von Karajan
- Newsreel - Film of the postwar period, Wilma Lipp sings Voices of Spring Waltz during the visit of John F. Kennedy
- The Salzburg festival - film by Tony Palmer, Wilma Lipp is interviewed regarding director's theater and not holding her displeasure with Doris Dorries "Rigoletto" at the Bavarian State Opera behind the mountain
- Witnesses - way to the Second Republic - Documentary, ed. of the University of Salzburg and the Salzburg regional studio of the ORF. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1987
- 50 years Reopening Vienna State Opera - Wilma Lipp; Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Sena Jurinac as honored guests of the Gala 2005