Marie Lehmann (soprano): Difference between revisions

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| birth_place = [[Hamburg]], Germany

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'''Marie Lehmann''' (15 May 1851 – 19 December 1931) was a German operatic [[soprano]]. She had a [[coloratura soprano]] voice, but also appeared in [[Richard Wagner|Wagner]]'s operasstage works, including the first complete performance of his ''[[Der Ring des Nibelungen]]'' at the inaugural [[Bayreuth Festival]] in 1876, playing one of the [[Rhinemaidens]].

Marie Lehmann was born in [[Hamburg]], the daughter of the soprano [[Maria Theresia Löw]] and the [[heldentenor]] Karl August Lehmann,; and theher sister of [[Lilli Lehmann]]. Her mother trained the girls, working in Prague.<ref name="Kutsch" />

Lehmann made her stage debut at the [[Leipzig Opera]] in 1867 as Ännchen in Weber's ''[[Der Freischütz]]'',<ref name="Kutsch" /> where she was engaged until 1869. She took a break of two years, continuing her career at the [[Hamburg Opera]] in 1871, at the [[Cologne Opera]] in 1873, at the [[Breslau Opera]] in 1878, at the German Theatre in Prague in 1879,<ref name="Kutsch" /> and finally at the [[Vienna State Opera|Vienna Court Opera]] from 1891<ref name="Forbes" /> until 1896,<ref name="Kutsch" /> where she also took [[mezzo-soprano]] and [[contralto]] roles. She performed there as a guest until 1901.<ref name="Kutsch" /> The roles in her broad repertory included Mozart characters such as Konstanze in ''[[Die Entführung aus dem Serail]]'', Susanna in ''[[Le nozze di Figaro]]'', Donna Elvira in ''[[Don Giovanni]]'', and the Queen of the Night in ''[[Die Zauberflöte]]'', Marzelline in Beethoven's ''[[Fidelio]]'', Leonore in Flotow's ''[[Alessandro Stradella (opera)|Alessandro Stradella]]'', and Christine in Ignaz Brüll's ''[[Das goldene Kreuz]]'',<ref name="Kutsch" /> premiered in Berlin in 1875. Her roles included further Marguerite de Valois in Meyerbeer's ''[[Les Huguenots]]'', Adalgisa in Bellini's ''[[Norma (opera)|Norma]]'' and Antonina in Donizetti's ''[[Belisario]]''.<ref name="Forbes" /> She appeared in operas by Verdi, as Gilda in ''[[Rigoletto]]'' and Desdemona in ''[[Otello]]'', and as Senta in Wagner's ''[[Der fliegende Holländer]]'' and Sieglinde in his ''[[Die Walküre]]''.<ref name="Kutsch" />

[[File:1876Rhinemaidens.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|The [[Rhinemaidens]] in Bayreuth in 1876, in the first production of Wagner's ''[[Der Ring des Nibelungen]]'', from left: [[Minna Lammert]], [[Lilli Lehmann]], Marie Lehmann]]
In [[Bayreuth]], Lehmann performed the soprano solo in Beethoven's [[Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)|Ninth Symphony]] forat the groundbreakingconcert celebrating the laying of the foundation stone of the [[Bayreuth Festspielhaus]] in 1872,<ref name="Forbes" /> alongside [[Johanna Jachmann-Wagner]], [[Albert Niemann (tenor)|Albert Niemann]] and [[Franz Betz]], with Wagner conducting.<ref name="Forbes" /> She created two roles, Wellgunde the [[Rhinemaiden]] and Waltraute the [[Valkyrie]], in the first complete performance of Wagner's ''[[Der Ring des Nibelungen]]''<ref name="Forbes" /> at the inaugural [[Bayreuth Festival]] from 13 to 17 August 1876. The other two Rhinemaidens were her sister [[Lilli Lehmann]], and [[Minna Lammert]].<ref name="Kutsch" /><ref name="Lehmann" /> They performed "swimming" in an apparatus imagined by Wagner. After the opening scene was first tried, stage assistant Richard Fricke wrote in his diary that Wagner "thanked them with tears of joy".<ref name="Deaville" /> Lehmann sang again in Bayreuth in 1896, as the Second Norne in ''[[Götterdämmerung]]''.<ref name="Forbes" />

|last last1 = Deaville

|first first1 = James Andrew

|editorlink editor-link = Evan A. Baker

|publisher = [[Oxford University Press]]

|editoreditor1-last = Kutsch

|editoreditor1-first = Karl -J.

|editor2-first = Leo Riemens

|chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=dsfq_5dFeL0C&pg=PA2667

|work chapter = [[GroßesLehmann, Sängerlexikon]]Marie

|yeardate = 2004

|language = Germande

|authorlinkauthor-link = Lilli Lehmann

|language = Germande

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