Liselotte Maikl

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'''Liselotte Maikl''' (6 March 1925 – 10 December 2014<ref name="derstandard">[https://ift.tt/365bhHm ''derStandard.at - Kammersängerin Liselotte Maikl gestorben'']. Article dated 11 December 2014, retrieved 12 November 2020.</ref>) was an Austrian [[soprano]] and [[Ballett|balletdancer]].

== 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 of the [[Vienna State Opera]] and was a member of the [[Vienna State Ballet]].<ref name="staatsoper">[https://ift.tt/32Dvl2B '''Staatsoper - Kammersängerin Liselotte Maikl verstorben'' until the house was closed due to war in 1945, retrieved 12 November 2020.]</ref> 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]].<ref name="musiklexikon"></ref><ref>[https://ift.tt/3eXRGgj ''Liselotte Maikl - eine der Vergessenen'']. retrieved 12 November 2020.</ref>

[[File:Georg Maikl and Liselotte Maikl grave, Vienna, 2018.jpg|thumb|<center>Grave of Liselotte Maikl and her father Georg Maikl in the Vienna Central Cemetery</center>]]

With her father she was on stage at the ''[[Der_Vogelhändler]]'' as Christel.<ref>[https://ift.tt/36wOfcR Maikl Liselotte on Operisssimo]</ref> From 1948 to 1950, she was engaged as a singer at the [[Landestheater Linz]], then at the [[Volksoper Wien]]. <ref name="musiklexikon"/> 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 Devember 1978 in Wagner's ''[[Die Walküre]]''. In total she impersonated 66 different roles in 1206 performances.

In 1974 she was awarded the title ''Österreichische [[Kammersänger]]in''.<ref>[https://ift.tt/3eSc56o ''klassik.com - Kammersängerin Liselotte Maikl ist tot''.] Article from 12 December 2014, retrieved 12 November 2020.</ref>

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.<ref>[https://ift.tt/3kpoAaE ''Künstlerheim Baden - Board of Directors'']. retrieved 12 November 2020.</ref> She was buried at her father's side in the [[Vienna Central Cemetery]] (Group 33A/5/17).

== Awards ==
* [[Österreichisches Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst]]<ref name="derstandard"/><ref name="staatsoper"/><ref name="musiklexikon"/>
* Goldene <ref name="derstandard"/><ref name="staatsoper"/><ref name="musiklexikon"/>

== Further reading ==
* [[Alexander Rausch]], Monika Kornberger: [https://ift.tt/38DsmuS Maikl, Familie. In ''[[Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon]]''. Online-edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ; Print edition: vol. 3, [[Austrian Academy of Sciences]] presses, Vienna 2004],.

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[[Category:Austrian operatic sopranos]]
[[Category:Österreichischer Kammersänger]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art]]
[[Category:1925 births]]
[[Category:2014 deaths]]
[[Category:Musicians from Vienna]]

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