Liselotte Maikl

Liselotte Maikl (6 March 1925 – 10 December 2014)[1] was an Austrian soprano and ballet dancer.

Life

Born in Vienna, Maikl was the daughter of the tenor Georg Maikl (1872–1951) and a ballet dancer. At the age of seven she joined the Ballettakademie der Wiener Staatsoper of the Vienna State Opera and was a member of the Vienna State Ballet.[2] In addition to her ballet training, she also studied singing with Maria Gerhart and received dramatic lessons at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.[3][4]

Grave of Liselotte Maikl and her father Georg Maikl in the Vienna Central Cemetery

With her father she was on stage at the Der Vogelhändler as Christel.[5] From 1948 to 1950, she was engaged as a singer at the Landestheater Linz, then at the Volksoper Wien.[3] From 1951, she was a member of the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera. She made her State Opera debut on 19 May 1951 as one of the four Edelknaben in Wagner's Lohengrin. After the opera building was destroyed in bombing raids in March 1945, the rehearsals and performances were held at the Theater an der Wien until its reopening in 1955. At the Salzburger Festspiele, she appeared as Barbarina in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro in 1953 and 1960, and in Verdi's Don Carlos in 1960. With the Wiener Solistenorchester under the direction of Karl Grell, she made television appearances as an operetta and Wienerlied singer. She said her farewell to the State Opera on 13 December 1978 in Wagner's Die Walküre. In total she impersonated 66 different roles in 1206 performances.

In 1974 she was awarded the title Österreichische Kammersängerin.[6]

Maikl died on 10 December 2014 at the age of 89 in the artists' home in Baden near Vienna, where she was a member of the board of the association Künstler helfen Künstler and spent her last years.[7] She was buried at her father's side in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 33A/5/17).

Awards

Further reading
  • Alexander Rausch, Monika Kornberger: Maikl, Familie. In Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon. Online-edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5; Print edition: vol. 3, Austrian Academy of Sciences presses, Vienna 2004,ISBN 3-7001-3045-7.

References
  1. derStandard.at – Kammersängerin Liselotte Maikl gestorben. Article dated 11 December 2014, retrieved 12 November 2020.
  2. 'Staatsoper – Kammersängerin Liselotte Maikl verstorben until the house was closed due to war in 1945, retrieved 12 November 2020.
  3. Alexander Rausch, Monika Kornberger: Maikl, Familie. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon. Online-Ausgabe, Wien 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5; Druckausgabe: Band 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7.
  4. Liselotte Maikl – eine der Vergessenen. retrieved 12 November 2020.
  5. Maikl Liselotte on Operisssimo
  6. klassik.com – Kammersängerin Liselotte Maikl ist tot. Article from 12 December 2014, retrieved 12 November 2020.
  7. Künstlerheim Baden – Board of Directors. retrieved 12 November 2020.
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