Stage and film all on Lindström records: The actress Gitta Alpár

30 Pages·2008·1.98 MB·English

by  Rainer Künzler

Stage and film – all on Lindström records:
The actress
Gitta Alpár
9th annual meeting of the
GHT in Immenstadt i. Allgäu
May 22nd – 25th 2008
Rainer Künzler
Stage and film - all on Lindström records:
The actress Gitta Alpár
Overview
• Youth in Budapest
• Her first success on stage
• Engagements in Munich and Berlin
• Her first recordings on Homocord
• 1930: Change to the operetta
• Lindström recordings 1930 – 33
• German talking films up to 1933
• Repertoire and marketing
• Emigration to Vienna
• Engagements allover Europe
• Emigration to the US
• Conclusion and outlook
Stage and film - all on Lindström records:
The actress Gitta Alpár
Youth in Budapest
born on
5 March 1903
as Margit Klopfer
Father: Ignác Klopfer, cantor at the
main synagogue in Dohány utca
first music lessons by her
mother
1919 – end of 1923:
vocal education at the Music
Academy by Laura
Hilgermann
Stage and film - all on Lindström records:
The actress Gitta Alpár
Her first success on stage
1924 january: First appearance in
Budapest State Opera
argument between direktor Miklós
Radnai und star soprano Erzsi
Sándor
Alpár replaces Sándor as Lakmé in
„Lakmé“ (Delibes)
1 January 1924: Alpár already performs
as Gilda in „Rigoletto“
Engagement at
„Király Színház“
operetta theatre located in
Király utca
Stage and film - all on Lindström records:
The actress Gitta Alpár
Engagements in Munich and Berlin
1925 – 1927: Engagement at
the opera house of Munich
1927: debut at State Opera, Vienna
1927 – 1930: State Opera Berlin on
invitation of Erich Kleiber
Marriage with her first husband
Kornél Stangl
Stage and film - all on Lindström records:
The actress Gitta Alpár
Her first recordings on Homocord
opara arias
Hungarian folk songs
in U- / H-U- export series
recording activita about 1927 - 30
Stage and film - all on Lindström records:
The actress Gitta Alpár Her first recordings on Homocord
Gitta Alpár:
Gilda‘s aria
from „Rigoletto“
M: Giuseppe Verdi
M-52361 Ho 4-9003
rec. 23 Feb. 1929 (?)
Stage and film - all on Lindström records:
The actress Gitta Alpár
1930: Change to the operetta – new label Odeon / Parlophon
1930: first role in Millöcker‘s „Bettelstudent“ at the Metropol theatre
1930: First great succes wirh Richard
Tauber in Lehár‘s „Schön ist die Welt“
(Odeon / Parlophon)
Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger:
This is Lehár, this is Tauber, that
means succes. Gitta Alpár is the amazing
success of the evening, enchanting with
each of her tones, clear as a bell.
1930: Title role in Kálmán‘s „Veilchen
vom Montmartre“ (Odeon)
first Lindström recordings: November 1930 on
Odeon – probably exclusive contract
Stage and film - all on Lindström records:
1930: Change to the operetta – new label Odeon /
The actress Gitta Alpár
Parlophon
Gitta Alpár:
Bin verliebt, bin so verliebt
Song from
„Schön ist die Welt“
(M: Franz Lehár;
T: Ludwig Herzer and Fritz Löhner)
accomp. by the orchestra of the
Metropol theatre, Berlin
Be 9273 Od O-11360
rec. 28 Nov 1930
Stage and film - all on Lindström records:
The actress Gitta Alpár
1930: Change to the operetta – new label Odeon / Parlophon
1931: „Die Dubarry“
re-edited byTheo
Mackeben (Odeon /
Parlophon)
„her role“
5 April 1931: Marriage
with her second husband
Gustav Fröhlich