Christiane Haßloch (born Christiane Keilholz: 16 July 1764 - 23
August 1829) was a German stage actress and opera singer (coloratura
soprano).Christiane Magdalena Elisabeth Keilholz was born in Pirna, a
mid-sized town a short distance up-river from Dresden.Her father was
the actor Philipp Christian Keilholz (1735â€"1800). It may have been
as a result of her parents' theatrical backgrounds that she made her
stage debut in 1769, the year of her fifth birthday. While she was
growing up she made repeated stage appearances with her sister
Dorothea, her brother Adolf Philipp Christian and her parents. There
were engagements in Hamburg (1776/77 and 1780-1783), in Braunschweig
and Lüneburg (1777-1779) and in Münster. Between 1784 and 1786, now
without their parents, she and her sister Dorothea had singing
engagements at the Hamburg State Theatre (as it was then known). Here,
according to one commentator, those who heard her could not praise
highly enough the "melodious and wonderful timbre of this beautiful
singer" ("melodischen herrlichen Gesang dieser schönen Sängerin").In
1786 the sisters joined the theatre company of Gustav Friedrich
Wilhelm Großmann and Christian Wilhelm Klos. Under the music director
August Burgmüller the company gave its performances in the larger
Rhineland cities, notably Cologne, Düsseldorf, Bonn and Aachen. The
company broke up in 1787, and during the 1789/90 season she played at
the Bonn Court Theatre which had re-opened (after a five-year closure
for mourning, following the death of the late Archbishop-Elector) in
January 1789, and where the young Ludwig van Beethoven played the
viola in the theatre orchestra. By May 1790 she had left Bonn and
joined the National Theatre in Mannheim where she made her debut as
Constanze, the lead role in Mozart's opera, Seraglio. She remained at
Mannheim till April 1792, when she moved to Amsterdam to undertake
some engagements at the "German Theatre" ("Deutsches Theater") there.
Leaving Mannheim at short notice involved breaking her agreement, and
she was obliged to pay a contractual penalty of 100 ducats when she
returned to Mannheim in August 1792. In 1793 she went back to
Amsterdam, this time accompanied by the tenor Karl Haßloch whom she
married.
August 1829) was a German stage actress and opera singer (coloratura
soprano).Christiane Magdalena Elisabeth Keilholz was born in Pirna, a
mid-sized town a short distance up-river from Dresden.Her father was
the actor Philipp Christian Keilholz (1735â€"1800). It may have been
as a result of her parents' theatrical backgrounds that she made her
stage debut in 1769, the year of her fifth birthday. While she was
growing up she made repeated stage appearances with her sister
Dorothea, her brother Adolf Philipp Christian and her parents. There
were engagements in Hamburg (1776/77 and 1780-1783), in Braunschweig
and Lüneburg (1777-1779) and in Münster. Between 1784 and 1786, now
without their parents, she and her sister Dorothea had singing
engagements at the Hamburg State Theatre (as it was then known). Here,
according to one commentator, those who heard her could not praise
highly enough the "melodious and wonderful timbre of this beautiful
singer" ("melodischen herrlichen Gesang dieser schönen Sängerin").In
1786 the sisters joined the theatre company of Gustav Friedrich
Wilhelm Großmann and Christian Wilhelm Klos. Under the music director
August Burgmüller the company gave its performances in the larger
Rhineland cities, notably Cologne, Düsseldorf, Bonn and Aachen. The
company broke up in 1787, and during the 1789/90 season she played at
the Bonn Court Theatre which had re-opened (after a five-year closure
for mourning, following the death of the late Archbishop-Elector) in
January 1789, and where the young Ludwig van Beethoven played the
viola in the theatre orchestra. By May 1790 she had left Bonn and
joined the National Theatre in Mannheim where she made her debut as
Constanze, the lead role in Mozart's opera, Seraglio. She remained at
Mannheim till April 1792, when she moved to Amsterdam to undertake
some engagements at the "German Theatre" ("Deutsches Theater") there.
Leaving Mannheim at short notice involved breaking her agreement, and
she was obliged to pay a contractual penalty of 100 ducats when she
returned to Mannheim in August 1792. In 1793 she went back to
Amsterdam, this time accompanied by the tenor Karl Haßloch whom she
married.
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