Eisinger, Irene (sop.) - Mozart (Supraphoon B 0101) 1929 - Kostenloses Hörbuch

Irene Eisinger (Cosel, 08.12.1903 - Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, 08.04.1994): German soprano. Studied singing, piano and acting.

1926: Debut in Stadttheater Basel.

1928-1931: Kroll-Oper Berlin

1930-1931: guest roles at the Wiener Staatsoper

1930-1933: Salzburg Festival, particularly roles in Mozart operas

1932-1933: Staatsoper Berlin, as a Jew had to leave in 1933

1933-1937: Deutsches Theater Prague; guest roles in Brussels and Amsterdam

1934-1939: Glyndebourne Festival

1937: Guest role at Covent Garden and Glyndebourne Festival

Lived in England since 1938, also performed regularly for the radio.

Irene Eisinger can also be seen in various (operetta) films: a.o.

1926 and 1931: Die Försterchristl (Friedrich Zelnick), a silent film; sung remake in 1931;

1930: Zwei Herzen in Dreiviertel-takt (Géza von Bolváry) role: Anni Lohmeier

1931: Die lustige Weiber von Wien (Géza von Bolváry) role: Leopoldine

She recorded for Ultraphon and HMV, including an (almost) complete Cosi fan Tutte by Mozart from Glyndebourne conducted by Fritz Busch (1935).

Selmar Meyrowitz (Bartenstein, 18.04.1875 - Toulouse, ca. 25.03.1941): real name Salomon Reinmar Meyrowitz): German conductor. Studied with Carl Reinecke and Salomon Jadassohn (Conservatory Leipzig) and Max Bruch (Akademische Meisterschule Berlin). Was solorepetitor in

After attending grammar school in Stolp (Pomerania), Meyrowitz studied at the Leipzig Conservatory with Carl Reinecke and Salomon Jadassohn from 1894 to 1896 and with Max Bruch at the Academic Master School in Berlin from 1896 to 1898. As assistant to Felix Mottl, he worked as a solo répétiteur at the Karlsruhe Court Theatre from 1898 to 1901 and at the Metropolitan Opera in New York from 1901 to 1902. He then toured the entire USA as piano accompanist to the soprano Johanna Gadski.

Returning to Europe, Selmar Meyrowitz again worked as a solo répétiteur at the Prague State Theatre from 1905-1907. He worked as a theatre conductor from 1907 to 1909 at the Stadttheater Danzig, from 1909 to 1910 at the (old) Komische Oper Berlin (Friedrichstraße at Weidendammer Brücke), from 1911 to 1912 at the Kurfürsten-Oper Berlin, from 1912 to 1913 at the Munich Hoftheater and from 1913 to 1918 as principal conductor at the Hamburg Staatsoper, interrupted by his participation in the First World War. From 1917 to 1922 he regularly conducted concerts of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, from 1919 to 1924 he was mainly active as a concert conductor, and from 1920 to 1921 he led the Blüthner Orchestra. Tours took him through Holland, Italy and Sweden. From 1924 to 1927 he was conductor at the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden, alongside Erich Kleiber and George Szell. He then turned to radio and records: from 1928 to 1933 he was a frequent guest conductor at Funk-Stunde Berlin and led the Berlin Funk Orchestra, and from 1929 to 1932 he worked as house conductor for the newly founded record company Ultraphon (later Telefunkenplatte).

Selmar Meyrowitz conducted the world premiere of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's opera Der Schmuck der Madonna at the Kurfürsten-Oper on 23 December 1911, the Hamburg premiere of Franz Schreker's opera Der ferne Klang on 31 March 1913 and the world premiere of Hans Pfitzner's Eichendorff cantata Von deutscher Seele in Berlin on 27 January 1922. As the designated director of the Berlin State Opera, he had to flee to Paris in 1933. There he recorded the first complete recording of Franz Liszt's Faust Symphony for Pathé in 1935, and he conducted the first French production of The Threepenny Opera by Robert Brecht and Kurt Weill in 1937.

After the occupation of Paris by the German Wehrmacht in May 1940, Meyrowitz fled to southern France. He died in Toulouse from the hardships of flight and exile. The exact date of his death is disputed; various sources cite 23[1], 24[2] or 25[3] March 1941.

Meyrowitz was married to Margarete Neumann and had a son, Peter (* 1912).

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - "Figaros Hochzeit":

1 O säume länger nicht

2 Komm näher, knee hin vor mir

Irene Eisinger, soprano

Mitglieder des Orchesters der Staatsoper, Berlin; Selmar Meyrowitz, conductor

78rpm 30 cm: Supraphoon B 0101

Matrix nrs.:  30138/9

Recorded:  1929 09 05