Amalia Carneri

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File:Amalia Carneri 1908.jpg
Amalia Carneri, 1908

Amalia Carneri (also Amalie) is the artist name of Amalie Malka Pollak, born Malka Kanarvogel, (September 12, 1875 – 1942 or later during the Holocaust), a soprano opera and operetta performer based in Vienna, Austria. She performed in several of Vienna’s most prestigious concert venues and made several recordings.

Life

She was born Malka Kanarvogel in Rzeszow, Poland, on September 12, 1875. She studied music performance at the Vienna Conservatory, and changed her name to a more operatic-sounding "Amalia Carneri". In her private life she used the name Amalie.

She married government mine inspector Heinrich (Henryk) Pollak (b. June 7, 1877 in Krakow, d. October 7, 1938) in Vienna at the Seitenstettengasse synagogue. Together they had two sons. Fritz (Fred), who became a design engineer, was born on February 28, 1909, and Karl (Charles), who became an engineering professor for the University of Rhode Island, was born on January 15, 1920, both in Vienna.

Carneri had an international singing career which included tours of Austria, France, Germany, and Hungary. The locations of her performances included the Deutsches Theater in Plzeň,[1][2] the Eden Theater in Strasbourg,[3] and the Stadttheater, Landestheater, Carl-Theater,[3][4][5] and the Volkstheater in Vienna. Between 1905 and 1907 she made several phonograph recordings for Edison Records, Odeon Records and Zonophone Records. Her initial mention in the Vienna newspaper Neue Freie Presse was very positive, describing a successful recital in 1898 that was met with enthusiasm by the public.[6]

Her last apartment was in Vienna's Untere Donaustraße 33, right at the Danube Canal. She was expelled from Vienna on September 10, 1942 and interned at the Theresienstadt concentration camp. From there, on September 29, 1942, at the age of 68, she was taken by Holocaust train to the Treblinka extermination camp along with 2001 other prisoners, none of whom survived.[7] Her recorded number on this transport was 973.[8][9]

Selected recordings

  • 1905: "Du Süße, Süße", from Schützenliesl. Amalie Carneri, soprano, Max Rohr, tenor[10]
  • 1907: "D' lustigen Weanaleut'". Amalie Carneri, Rudolf Kronegger, Edison label[11]
  • 1907: Oscar Straus, "Ich bin a Weaner Madl, ich eine Kammerfrau" from Ein Walzertraum. Odéon, Amalie Carneri, soprano, Mizzi Jezel, soprano[12]
  • 1907: Oscar Straus, "Ich hab' einen Mann" from Ein Walzertraum. Amalie Carneri, soprano, Helene Merviola, soprano[13]
  • 1907: "Mei Muatterl war a Weanerin". Amalie Carneri, Ludwig Gruber, Edison label[11]
  • 1907: Oscar Straus, "O du Lieber, o du G'scheiter" from Ein Walzertraum. Amalie Carneri, soprano, Max Rohr, tenor.[10]
  • 1910: Offenbach, "Barcarolle: Schöne Nacht, du Liebesnacht" from Les contes d'Hoffmann. Label: Odéon, Amalie Carneri, soprano, Willy Strehl, tenor[14][15]
File:Amalia Carneri in 1909.jpg
Amalia Carneri, from the program note to the 400th performance of Ein Walzertraum on May 19, 1908.

There is also a Zonophone recording of her singing Mendelssohn's "Spring Song" recorded at the Nationaltheater in Lviv.[16]

References

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  8. ↑ Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstands: Opferdatenbank, search for Pollak Amalie, retrieved on January 29, 2016
  9. ↑ A Letter To The Stars: Amalie Pollak, retrieved on January 29, 2016
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News clippings
File:Amalia Carneri in Wagnerian costume, in a painting made by her husband, Heinrich Pollak, in Vienna in 1909.jpg
Painting of Amalia Carneri in full Wagnerian costume, painted by her husband, Heinrich Pollak, in Vienna in 1909.
  • Marienbader Tagblatt, 10 June 1898.
  • Pilsner Tagblatt, 3 October 1903, 20 January 1905, 3 February 1905, 2 March 1904.
  • Fremden Blatt, (Vienna), 1 August 1897, 8 November 1899, 17 April 1906.
  • Deutsches Volksblatt, 9 April 1907.
  • Westungarischer Grenzbote, 17 July 1898.
  • Egerer Zeitung, 25 June 1898, 11 March 1905, 1907.
  • Oftauer Zeitung, 12 January 1899.
  • Neue Freie Presse, Vienna, 9 February 1898, 11 July 1898, 2 September 1898, 12 December 1903, 14 October 1905.
  • Saar Zeitung, 9 April 1904.
  • Das kleine Blatt, 2 July 1932.
  • Badener Zeitung, 9 December 1931, 10 January 1932.
  • Orsovaer Wochenblatt, 3 July 1898.
  • Radio Tag, 1928.
Dated performance programs
  • Lohengrin composed by Richard Wagner, role of Ortrud, Grosse Festsaal des Ingenieur- und Architekten-Vereines, Vienna, November 3, 1922.
Recordings[citation needed]
  • Odeon, Barcarole, Hoffmanns Erzählugen with Willi Strehl
  • Favorite Record, Schlittenarie a Faunitza and Schmuckwalzer from Faust
  • Ein Walzertraum composed by Felix Dormann and Leopold Jacobson, September 30, 1908. Role of Friederike von Insterburg, Oberhofmeisterin at Carl-Theater.
  • Der Selige Vinzenz, by Alexander Landesberg, libretto by Leo Stein, February 26, 1907. Role of Irene at Carl-Theater, February 26, 1907.


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