Classical
Austria
Leonie Rysanek
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Rosette Anday, Birgit Nilsson, Ludwig Suthaus, Judith Hellwig, Gottlob Frick, l'Orchestra della Scala di Milano, Christa Ludwig, Jean Madeira, Lotte Rysanek, Margareta Sjoestedt, Hans Hotter, Gerda Scheyrer, Martha Rohs, Hilde Rössel-Majdan, Leonie Rysanek, Herbert von Karajan & Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus
Rosette Anday, Birgit Nilsson, Hilde Rössel-Majdan, Leonie Rysanek, Gottlob Frick, Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus, Christa Ludwig, Margareta Sjoestedt, Hans Hotter, Ludwig Suthaus, Judith Hellwig, Herbert von Karajan, l'Orchestra della Scala di Milano, Jean Madeira, Lotte Rysanek, Gerda Scheyrer & Martha Rohs
Birgit Nilsson, Ludwig Suthaus, Judith Hellwig, Leonie Rysanek, Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus, Lotte Rysanek, Gerda Scheyrer, Hilde Rössel-Majdan, Gottlob Frick, Christa Ludwig, Margareta Sjoestedt, Martha Rohs, Hans Hotter, Rosette Anday, Herbert von Karajan, l'Orchestra della Scala di Milano & Jean Madeira
Birgit Nilsson, Judith Hellwig, Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus, Christa Ludwig, Lotte Rysanek, Margareta Sjoestedt, Rosette Anday, Ludwig Suthaus, Hilde Rössel-Majdan, Leonie Rysanek, Herbert von Karajan, Gerda Scheyrer, Martha Rohs, Hans Hotter, Gottlob Frick, l'Orchestra della Scala di Milano & Jean Madeira
Hans Hotter, Rosette Anday, Ludwig Suthaus, Hilde Rössel-Majdan, Leonie Rysanek, Gottlob Frick, Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus, Martha Rohs, Birgit Nilsson, Judith Hellwig, Herbert von Karajan, l'Orchestra della Scala di Milano, Jean Madeira, Gerda Scheyrer, Christa Ludwig, Lotte Rysanek & Margareta Sjoestedt
Rosette Anday, Ludwig Suthaus, Judith Hellwig, Herbert von Karajan, Christa Ludwig, Gerda Scheyrer, Margareta Sjoestedt, Hans Hotter, Birgit Nilsson, Gottlob Frick, l'Orchestra della Scala di Milano, Jean Madeira, Lotte Rysanek, Leonie Rysanek, Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus, Hilde Rössel-Majdan & Martha Rohs
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Over Leonie Rysanek
Woonplaats
Vienna, Austria
Geboren
1926
Genre
Classical
While best known for her Wagner and Strauss, soprano Leonie Rysanek was also greatly admired in the dramatic Verdi roles, especially Lady Macbeth. She had a rich, full voice that could cut through heavy orchestration, but was also capable of fine piano singing. Her first career ambition was drama, and she was known for her formidable stage and vocal acting, though some critics commented unfavorably on her occasional disruptions of the vocal line and extramusical effects to emphasize a dramatic point. Modestly, she declined offers of the heaviest Strauss and Wagner such as Isolde and Brünnhilde, declaring that Birgit Nilsson's renditions were the ideal. (Compare that to the feuding of many divas and divos!) Vocally, her middle was a weak point through the early years of her career, though it strengthened with time.
She studied at the Vienna Conservatory with Alfred Jerger and Rudolf Grossman, and made her opera debut at the Innsbruck opera in 1949 as Agathe in Weber's Der Freischütz. Her feminine and yet powerfully-voiced Sieglinde at her Bayreuth Festival debut in 1951 brought her to world attention. She made her Covent Garden debut during a Vienna State Opera tour as Danae in Strauss' Der Liebe der Danae in 1953. Her United States debut was in San Francisco in 1956 as Senta in Wagner's The Flying Dutchman. Her Met debut was in 1959, replacing Maria Callas as Verdi's Lady Macbeth, though she was scheduled to appear later that season as Verdi's Aida. Though she had to win over a hostile audience, she became a Met favorite and for the rest of her career, was a regular there as well as in Vienna. In 1981, she starred in Götz Friedrich's film of Elektra, conducted by Karl Bohm and co-starring with Astrid Varnay. In the mid-1980s she began to sing mezzo roles, marking her 30th anniversary U.S. debut by appearing as the Kostelnicka in Janácek's Jenufa at San Francisco, and added such roles as Clytemnestra and Herodias to her repertoire. She retired as a singer in 1996 and became president of the Vienna Festival.
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