Description

LUISE PERARD-PETZL (SOPRANO) (NEAR MELK, DANUBE, 1884 – MUNICH, NOVEMBER 20, 1936)

 

 

 

 

After completing her education, she achieved her first successes under the name Luise Perard-Theissen at the Hamburg Opera, where she appeared from 1907 to 1913. In the 1908–09 season, she made guest appearances at Covent Garden, continuing to sing there until 1913, performing among other roles Chrysothemis in R. Strauss’s Elektra (1910). Her repertoire at Covent Garden also included Elsa in Lohengrin, Gutrune in Götterdämmerung, *Tosca, and Aida. In Wagner’s Tannhäuser, she sang both Elisabeth and Venus.

In 1913, she alternated with Margarethe Siems in the Covent Garden premiere of Der Rosenkavalier, singing the role of the Marschallin, and also took part in the premiere of Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen’s opera Oberst Chabert. In 1910, she appeared as a guest in Amsterdam, performing as Elsa in Lohengrin.

In 1913, she was engaged by the Munich State Opera, where she had a successful career until 1920. On 16 November 1913, she sang in the Munich premiere of Paul von Klenau’s opera Sulamith. She also made guest appearances in Berlin (1909), Frankfurt am Main (1911), Zurich (1914), Brussels (1914), and Oslo (1920).

Later, she worked as a singing teacher in Munich.

 

Chronology of some appearances

1907-1913 Hamburg Opera
1908-1913 London Covent Garden
1910 Amsterdam Opera
1913 Munich State Opera

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

Gramophone, Berlin 1913-12-01
Aida (Verdi): O Vaterland (Nilarie) 043263 1294s
Trovatore (Verdi): In deines Kerkers tiefe Nacht 043264 1295s
Zauberflöte (Mozart): Ach ich fühl’s 043265 1296½s
Ernani (Verdi): Ernani rette mich (Kavatine) 043266 1297s