MATHILDE DENNERY (1876
- 1923)
The artist began her career in 1900 at the Kaiserslautern City
Theater, then spent a season at the Kassel Court Theater, and from 1903 to 1904
at the Magdeburg City Theater. From there, she moved to the Cologne Opera
House, where she was engaged from 1904 to 1907. She remained based in Cologne
thereafter, never accepting a permanent engagement but pursuing extensive guest
performances until the mid-1920s.
She frequently appeared at the Leipzig Opera House (1902–1908), at the
Stuttgart Court Theatre in 1902 and 1903, the Theater des Westens in Berlin in
1903, the Hanover Court Theatre in 1903 and 1906, the Braunschweig Court
Theatre in 1903 and 1908, the Mannheim Court Theatre in 1907, and the Graz City
Theatre, the Weimar Court Theatre, and the Breslau Opera House in 1908. She
also sang at the Berlin Gura Opera in 1908 and 1909, the Wiesbaden Court
Theatre from 1909 to 1911, the Karlsruhe Court Theatre from 1910 to 1913, the
Frankfurt Opera House and the Bremen City Theatre in 1911, the Hamburg
Volksoper during the 1914–15 season, the Basel City Theatre in 1917, and the
Düsseldorf Opera House in 1923.
Her repertoire focused on roles from the German opera literature,
including Pamina in The Magic Flute,
Agathe in Der Freischütz, Senta
in The Flying Dutchman, Irene
in Wagner’s Rienzi, Elisabeth
in Tannhäuser, Elsa in Lohengrin, Eva in Die Meistersinger, Sieglinde in Die Walküre, Gutrune in Götterdämmerung, Anna in Marschner’s Hans Heiling, and Martha in
d'Albert’s Tiefland.
She also performed roles from Italian and French opera, such as
Leonora in Il trovatore,
Desdemona in Verdi’s Otello,
Bertha in Meyerbeer’s Le prophète,
Valentine in Les Huguenots,
Marguerite in Gounod’s Faust,
Antonia in The Tales of Hoffmann,
and Micaëla in Carmen.
She made recordings for G&T in Cologne (1905–07, solo and duets
with Tilman Liszewsky), Zonophone in Cologne (1905–06, also duets with Tilman
Liszewsky), and Pathé in Berlin (1909, solo arias).
TRACKLIST
Don Giovanni
(Mozart) Reich’ mir die Hand (w. Liszewski) 2-44149 4495L G&T, Köln 1906
Freischütz
(Weber) Cavatine 14582 Pathé, Berlin 1909
Licia (-)
(w. Liszewski & chorus) X-24187 Zonophone, Köln 1906
Mignon
(Thomas) Styrienne X-23185 Zonophone, Köln 1906
Trovatore
(Verdi) In deines Kerkers tiefe Nacht 14583 Pathé, Berlin 1909
Zauberflöte
(Mozart) Bei Männern (w. Liszewski) 2-44163 4493L G&T, Köln 1906
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