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| Hass Sabine | | soprano
[ 1949 - 1999 ]
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| She grew up in Munich and began to study the violin with her father, the chamber-music specialist Ernst Hass, at the age of five. At the age of 11 she toured numerous European countries with a youth orchestra. At 16 she began vocal studies with Karl-Heinz Lohmann in Berlin, continuing with Esther Mühlbauer and at the Richard Strauss conservatory in Munich. She began her career in 1970 at the Stuttgart Staatsoper, remaining a member of that company until 1977. Since then she has not been bound to a single house, although she retained connections with the theaters of Gelsenkirchen and Karlsruhe and took on wide-ranging engagements as a guest artist in international houses. In 1976 she made debuts in Munich and Vienna as Senta in Der Fliegende Holländer and Ariadne in Ariadne auf Naxos, remaining a regular guest in both houses thereafter. In 1977 she sang Rezia in Oberon at the Bregenz Festival. Guest appearances, often with the Vienna opera, followed in Japan, at the Grand Opéra of Paris, at Covent Garden, in Amsterdam, at the Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg, in Trieste, Venice, Turin, Rome, at the Teatro del Liceo in Barcelona, at the Teatro San Carlos in Lisbon and at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. She had contracts with the Hamburg Staatsoper and the Zurich Opera. In 1983 she sang Isabella in Wagner's Liebesverbot at the Munich Opera, and, that same year, Elsa in Lohengrin at La Scala. She sang the First Lady in Die Zauberflöte at the Salzburg Festival in 1985-86. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Elsa in 1985, and returned the next season as Senta. She repeated that role in Philadelphia, and in 1987 in Rio de Janeiro. In 1987, Frankfurt and the Teatro San Carlo in Naples heard her as Leonora in Fidelio, and she sang Beethoven's heroine again in 1988 with the Cologne Opera on tour in Tel Aviv. In 1989 she sang the same role in Seattle and at the Théâtre Châtelet in Paris. In 1989 she sang Sieglinde at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin. In 1989 she took on the role of Isolde for the first time at the Nationaltheater of Mannheim, and she repeated the assignment in 1990 in Basel (where she also appeared as Sieglinde) and in Hamburg. From 1991 to 1993 she sang Senta at the Bayreuth Festival. She sang Elsa at the Deutsche Oper, Berlin, in 1991, and the next year appeared there as Elisabeth. In 1992 she sang Brünnnhilde in Götterdämmerung at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, and in 1993 sang Senta at the Opéra Bastille in Paris. In 1994 she was heard at the Théâtre Châtelet as the Dyer's Wife in Die Frau ohne Schatten and at La Scala as Chrysothemis. The next season she added Isolde at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, and in 1996 she repeated the Dyer's Wife in Turin and Dresden. She also enjoyed an expansive career as a concert singer. She married the well-known bass-baritone Artur Korn (born in 1937) in 1979. She died of cancer in 1999. Recordings: DGG, Wergo, Orfeo (Das Liebesverbot). |
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