Sontag, Henriette

Sontag, Henriette

▪ German singer
original name  Gertrud Walpurgis Sonntag  
born Jan. 3, 1806, Koblenz, Fr. [now in Germany]
died June 17, 1854, Mexico City, Mex.

      German operatic and concert soprano who enjoyed great acclaim both before and after a 19-year hiatus in her career.

      The child of actor Franz Sonntag and singer Franziska Martloff Sonntag, she received early theatrical training and played juvenile roles in both stage plays and operas in Germany and in Prague, where her mother moved after her father's death. For several years she studied at the Conservatory there, making her adult operatic debut in 1821 as the princess in François-Adrien Boieldieu's Jean de Paris. After hearing her perform in Gioacchino Rossini's La donna del lago in Vienna in 1823, Carl Maria von Weber (Weber, Carl Maria von) asked her to create the title role in his Euryanthe. The premiere performance later that year was a triumph for both singer and composer. In 1824 she sang the premieres of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Missa Solemnis in Vienna and for the next few years toured Berlin, Paris, London, and most of the other major European centres.

      In 1828 Sontag was secretly married to Count Carlo Rossi of Sardinia, whose diplomatic career as ambassador to The Hague was jeopardized by the marriage until a patent of nobility was bestowed on her by the King of Prussia. After the marriage was publicly acknowledged in 1830, she yielded to pressure from her husband's colleagues and renounced the stage. For 19 years she appeared only rarely in private and charity concerts. In 1849, however, political upheaval in Sardinia ended both her husband's diplomatic career and Sontag's retirement. She accepted a six-month contract to sing at Her Majesty's Theatre, London, and then toured Great Britain and France. In 1850 she created the role of Miranda in Fromental Halévy's La tempesta in London, and, after a triumphal tour of Germany, she went in 1852 to the United States. She made her last appearance, as Lucrezia Borgia in the Gaetano Donizetti opera, during a tour of Mexico, where she succumbed to cholera during an epidemic.

* * *


Universalium. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужно решить контрольную?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Henriette Sontag — Henriette Sontag. Henriette Sonntag ( * 3 de enero de 1806 15 de junio de 1854) fue una famosa soprano alemana del siglo XIX. Rossini llegó a decir que tenía “La voz más pura de soprano” que él jamás escuchó. Contenido …   Wikipedia Español

  • Sontag — Sontag, Henriette, geb. 3. Januar 1806 (nicht 13. Mai 1805, wie sonst angegeben wurde) in Coblenz. Von ihren Eltern, welche selbst Schauspieler waren, für die Bühne bestimmt, trat sie schon als fünfjähriges Kind zu Frankfurt a. M. im… …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Sontag — Sontag, Henriette, Sängerin, geb. 3. Jan. 1806 zu Koblenz, 1824 28 am Königstädtischen Theater in Berlin, zog sich 1830, mit dem ital. Grafen Rossi vermählt, von der Bühne zurück; trat seit 1849 wieder auf, gest. 17. Juni 1854 zu Mexiko. – Ihr… …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • Sontag — Sontag, Henriette, vermählte Gräfin Rossi, geb. 1805 zu Koblenz, Schauspielerstochter, zeigte schon als Kind außerordentliche Anlagen für den Gesang, bildete zu Prag und Wien dieselben aus, unternahm 1824 eine Kunstreise durch Europa, besiegte zu …   Herders Conversations-Lexikon

  • Henriette Sontag — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Sontag. Henriette Sontag …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Henriette Sontag — Henriette Sontag, Radierung von Franz Xaver Stöber, 1827 …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Sontag — ist der Familienname folgender Personen: Ernst Sontag (1873–1955), deutscher Reichsgerichtsrat Franziska Sontag (1789–1875), deutsche Sängerin und Schauspielerin Helmut Sontag (1934–1988), deutscher Bibliothekar Henriette Sontag (1806–1854),… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Henriette Sontag — (3 January 1806 17 June 1854) was a German operatic soprano of great international renown. BiographySontag was born at Coblenz as Gertrude Walpurgis Sonntag. She made her début at the age of 15. In 1823 she sang at Leipzig in Carl Maria von Weber …   Wikipedia

  • Sontag — is a surname and may refer to:* Andrzej Sontag (born 1952), Polish triple jumper * Eduardo D. Sontag (born 1951), American/Argentine mathematician * Frank Sontag (born 1955), American talk radio show host * Henriette Sontag (1806 1854), German… …   Wikipedia

  • Henriette — ist ein weiblicher Vorname. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Varianten 2 Männliche Form 3 Bekannte Namensträgerinnen 3.1 Fiktive Personen …   Deutsch Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”