Eduard Devrient, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Eduard Devrient

German opera singer

Date of Birth: 11-Aug-1801

Place of Birth: Berlin

Date of Death: 04-Oct-1877

Profession: actor, writer, stage actor, opera singer, librettist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Eduard Devrient

  • (Philipp) Eduard Devrient (11 August 1801 – 4 October 1877) was a German baritone, librettist, playwright, actor, theatre director, and theatre reformer and historian. Devrient came from a theatrical family.
  • His uncle was Ludwig Devrient and his brother Karl was the first husband of Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient. He was born and studied in Berlin and performed in a number of German opera houses between 1819 and 1834, when he lost his singing voice and turned his attention to writing and acting.
  • From 1844-6 he worked in Dresden as actor/director, and he directed the Hoftheater in Karlsruhe from 1852 until his retirement in 1870. As a singer, he performed in works by Gluck, Mozart, Beethoven and Weber, among others, and sang in the première of Marschner's Hans Heiling (in the title-role; Devrient also wrote its libretto).
  • He also sang in the 1831 Berlin premiere of Der Templer und die Jüdin (as Bois-Guilbert). He also took the part of Christ in the 1829 revival by his friend Felix Mendelssohn of J.
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  • Bach's St Matthew Passion, having previously sung the role of Carrasco in Mendelssohn's only publicly performed opera, Die Hochzeit des Camacho (1827). He wrote a number of plays and two other opera librettos, Die Kirmes and Der Zigeuner, both set by Wilhelm Taubert.
  • In Karlsruhe, in the course of seventeen years, he not only raised it to a high position, but enriched its repertory by many noteworthy librettos.
  • But his chief work is his history of the German stage, Geschichte der deutschen Schauspielkunst (Leipzig, 1848-1874).Eduard Devrient died in Karlsruhe.
  • His son Otto Devrient also worked in the theatre.

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