Carla Henius

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Carla Henius
Carla Henius in 1976
Born(1919-05-04)4 May 1919
Mannheim, Germany
Died27 December 2002(2002-12-27) (aged 83)
Murnau am Staffelsee, Germany
EducationMusikhochschule Berlin
Occupations
  • Operatic mezzo-soprano
  • Librettist
  • Academic voice teacher
Organizations
  • Nationaltheater Mannheim
  • Musikhochschule Hannover
Awards
Federal Cross of Merit

Carla Henius (4 May 1919 – 27 December 2002) was a German operatic soprano and mezzo-soprano, voice teacher and librettist. She played a decisive role in promoting recent works by composers such as Arnold Schoenberg, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luigi Nono for the stage. She wrote the libretto for an opera by Aribert Reimann.

Career

Born in

Nationaltheater Mannheim from 1951 to 1956, where she appeared in the title role in the premiere of Fred Raymond's operetta Geliebte Manuela [de] in 1951.[1]

She was a lecturer at the

Musikhochschule Hannover from 1957, appointed professor in 1962 and teaching until 1966.[1] She kept working as a freelance singer, with a focus on more recent composers. On 13 April 1961, she performed at La Fenice in Venice in the premiere of Luigi Nono's Intolleranza 1960.[1] She appeared at the Piccola Scala [it] in Milan in 1965 in the premiere of Giacomo Manzoni's opera Atomtod.[1] Her repertoire contained music from Arnold Schoenberg to Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luigi Nono,[2] and she performed in operas by Boris Blacher, Werner Egk, Gottfried von Einem and Gerhard Wimberger.[1]

Dino Asciolla [it], percussionist Leonida Torrebruno, conducted by Bruno Maderna.[4]

Henius was married to the intendant of the Opernhaus Kiel, Joachim Klaiber [de].[1] He proposed from 1963, first with Peter Ronnefeld [de], then with Hans Zender, to devote a third of the program to contemporary opera. Henius was called 1977 to the Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen by the new Intendant, Claus Leininger to form and direct a musik-theater-werkstatt (Music Theatre Workshop). When Leininger moved to the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, she followed and directed a similar institution for new operas there.[2]

She died in Murnau am Staffelsee.[1]

Awards

In 1987, she was awarded the

Federal Cross of Merit. In 1996, she was awarded the Kulturpreis der Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden. A street in Wiesbaden is named after her.[5]

Work

Literature

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-3-59-844088-5
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  2. ^ a b Henius, Carla (3 July 1987). "Die tägliche Dreckarbeit". Die Zeit (in German). Retrieved 26 June 2018.
  3. ISBN 978-3-20-579628-2
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  4. ^ Recordings with Carla Henius, muziekweb.nl
  5. ^ "Carla Henius" (in German). Wiesbaden. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
  6. ^ "Ein Traumspiel". Schott. Retrieved 26 June 2018.

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