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Annelies Burmeister (Contralto)
Born: 1930 - Ludwigslust, Mecklenburg, Germany
The German contralto, Annelies Burmeister, started her artistic career as an actress and appeared at the Niederdeut stage in Schwerin. Howevwer, she decided then to study singing and became a pupil of Helene Jung in Weimar Schülerin.
In 1956 Annelies Burmeister made her stage debut as Bühnendebüt als Nicklaus in Hoffmanns Erzählungen at the City Theatre of Erfurt. After the national theatre of Weimar the artist came in 1959 to the State Opera of Dresden. Since 1962 she was an outstanding member of the Staatsoper Berlin. In addition to her appearances in the big European opera houses, she had an important career as concert and particularly as oratorio singer. She proved herself as n Wagner singer in various roles in the Bayreuth festivals, where she sang in 1966-1967 roles like Fricka, Siegrune and one of thee Nornen in the Ring cycle as well as the Brangaene in Tristan. She repeated it at the Wiener Staatsoper as a guest in 1966, and at the State Opera of Hamburg as Brangaene in 1967, to the Grand Opéra Paris (as Fricka in the Die Walküre), also in Amsterdam, Prague, Stockholm as well as 1968 and 1970 in London.
Other notable roles of Annelies Burmeister were Azucena in the Il Trovatore, Ulrica in Verdi’s Ballo in maschera, Orpheus of Gluck, Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Maddalena in Rigoletto, Quickly in the Falstaff of Verdi, the Hexe in Rusalka from Dvorák, Amme in Boris Godunow, Mrs. Reich in the Merry wives of Windsor of from Nicolai, Magdalene in the Meistersinger and Gaea in Daphne of Richard Strauss.
In 1966 Annelies Burmeister participated in the Berlin State Opera in the premiere of the opera Puntila of Paul Dessau, in 1970 in the opera Joe Hill of Alan Bush. In the concert hall one should estimate above all her art of the Bach’s singing.
The first recordings of Annelies Burmeister appeared to Eurodisc (Matthäus-Passion (BWV 244), Missa solemnis of Beethoven, Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Hexe in Rusalka of Dvorák) on Eterna (among other things, Berta in the Barbiere of Sevilla, complete opera Einstein of P. Dessau), later numerous records on Philips (portions in the Ring Cycle, Elias of Mendelssohn), DGG (Mass in B minor (BWV 232) of J.S. Bach, Requiem of Hindemith), Telefunken (Das Verhör des Lukullus of P. Dessau), Electrola HMV (Figaros Hochzeit, Der Waffenschmied of Lortzing, Die schweigsame Frau of R. Strauss), Supraphon (Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony).
Source: Operissimo Website, English traslation by Aryeh Oron (June 2001)
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