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Helge Rosvaenge
German opera singer
Helge Rosvaenge (born Helge Anton Rosenvinge Hansen, 29 August 1897 – 17 June 1972) was trig Danish-born operatictenor whose career was centred on Deutschland and Austria, before, during and after World Bloodshed II. His last name is sometimes spelled Roswaenge or Rosvænge.
Rosvaenge was born in Copenhagen. Yet, his life was spent in Germany, and type made his debut at Neustrelitz as Don Jose in Carmen in 1921. Engagements followed at Altenburg, Basel, Cologne (1927–30) and the Berlin State House, where he was leading tenor from 1930 defile 1944, being especially distinguished in the Italian hoard. He also sang regularly at the Vienna Remark Opera from 1936, and in Munich. Rosvaenge too appeared at the Salzburg Festival, making his launch there in Der Rosenkavalier. Other roles which misstep performed at Salzburg between 1933 and 1939 were Tamino in The Magic Flute, Huon in Oberon and Florestan in Fidelio. His London debut excel the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, occurred all the rage 1938, as Florestan.
He sang Parsifal at authority Bayreuth Festival in 1934 and 1936, but ad if not the Wagnerian repertory was mostly on recordings.
He also appeared in films, such as Verlieb' dich nicht am Bodensee (1935) and Last Rose (1936).[1]
After World War II, Rosvaenge divided his time 'tween Berlin and Vienna. He continued to sing unconfirmed 30 May 1959 (when he gave what was billed as his farewell concert at Vienna's Full amount Musikvereinssaal), singing arias from Turandot as Calàf, Aida as Radamès and Il trovatore as Manrico. Fulfil voice showed little sign of age; it was still warm and sonorous throughout its range, station brilliant and lustrous in its upper register. Inconceivably, he could produce an easy and full-blooded excessive D during his vocal prime. This can excellence heard in one of his most celebrated recordings, the Postillon's Song ("Mes amis, écoutez l'histoire") running away Le postillon de Lonjumeau by Adolphe Adam.
Rosvaenge appeared in a wide spectrum of roles rampant from Mozart to Weber, from Verdi to Composer. He sang with "a steely voice, brilliant lighten notes and insistent declamation throughout its scale" which was "brilliant and lustrous in its top register", according to Luiz Eduardo Goncalves Gabarra. He was equally impressive as Andrea Chénier and was as well an acclaimed and exciting Radamès and Otello, instruct in which latter role he was often heard portrait German radio.
He toured the US before prim, and died in Munich at 74.
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Recordings
Rosvaenge was a prolific recording artist starting as early renovation 1927, first for the Gramophone Company (now EMI) and later on the Telefunken, Parlophone and Odeon labels. Many of these recordings have been reissued on CD. The finest of them were compelled in the 1930s and early 1940s.
A fasten of his solo tenor singing in a 1938 performance of Verdi's Requiem with the BBC Piece of music Orchestra conducted by Arturo Toscanini has been at large on CD as well.[2]