Christine Esterházy
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Born | Christine Obermayr May 30, 1959 |
Education | University of Mainz University of Salzburg |
Occupation | opera singer |
Spouse(s) | Count Endre Esterházy von Galántha |
Relatives | Esterházy family |
Countess Christine Esterházy von Galántha (née Obermayr; born 30 May 1959) is a German opera singer and mezzo-soprano. She made her professional debut as Carmen at the Theater Ulm in Baden-Württemberg. Trained by Eduard Wollitz and Josef Metternich, she has performed at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz and the Vienna Volksoper.
Early life and education[]
Esterházy was born Christine Obermayr on 30 May 1959 in Wiesbaden, Hesse.[1]
She studied musicology and politics at the University of Mainz.[2] She studied classical singing under and Josef Metternich. She received a doctorate from the University of Salzburg in 1999.[2]
Career[]
She made her professional opera debut at the Theater Ulm when she was twenty-six years old, singing Carmen. In 1983 she performed as Cherubino in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich.[2][3] She has also performed at opera houses in Luxembourg, Bayreuth, Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Bonn, Turin, Madrid, Naples, and Barcelona.[2] Esterházy worked with conductors Lorin Maazel, Horst Stein, , Gustav Kuhn and directors August Everding, Werner Herzog, Götz Friedrich, and Christine Mielitz.[2]
She performed at the funeral mass for Beatrix, Countess of Schönburg-Glauchau in Munich on 6 November 2021.[4]
Personal life[]
In 1994 she married Count Endre Esterházy von Galántha, a member of the Hungarian nobility. She owns homes in Ranshofen and Eisenstadt, as well as a castle in Ering am Inn on the German-Austrian border.
On 9 July 2011, she and her husband attended the funeral of Otto von Habsburg in Pöcking.[5]
References[]
- ^ "Obermayr, Christine (1959–), Mezzosopranistin". Bmlo.uni-muenchen.de. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
- ^ a b c d e "Ballprogramm". Archived from the original on 11 October 2008. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
- ^ "Christina Esterházy, Soprano". Operabase.com. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
- ^ "Adieu, Grande Dame: Abschied von Matriarchin Gräfin Beatrix | Regional". Bild.de. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
- ^ "Requiem in Pöcking für Otto von Habsburg". Erzdioezese-wien.at. Archived from the original on 26 March 2012. Retrieved 11 July 2011.
- Living people
- 1959 births
- 20th-century German women opera singers
- 21st-century German women opera singers
- Esterházy family
- German operatic mezzo-sopranos
- Hungarian countesses
- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz alumni
- University of Salzburg alumni
- People from Wiesbaden