Baroness Karoline Jagemann von Heygendorff (25 January 1777, in Weimar
â€" 10 July 1848, in Dresden) was a major German tragedienne and
singer. Her great roles included Elizabeth in Mary Stuart (1800) and
Beatrice in The Bride of Messina (1803). She is also notable as a
mistress of Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, the
father of her three children. Both she and Karl August had their
portraits painted by Heinrich Christoph Kolbe.Henriette Karoline
Friedericke Jagemann was the daughter of the scholar and librarian
Christian Joseph Jagemann (1735â€"1804), and sister of the painter
Ferdinand Jagemann (1780â€"1820). She studied first at the Weimar
Princely Free Zeichenschule, where her brother was later a lecturer.
From 1790 she trained in acting and singing in Mannheim under August
Iffland and Heinrich Beck.She made her debut in 1792 in the title role
of the opera Oberon â€" The Fairy King by Paul Wranitzky at Mannheim's
Nationaltheater and was engaged as a court-singer in Weimar in 1797.
She and the soprano Henriette Eberwein (1790 - 1849), the tenor Carl
Melchior Jakob Moltke, and the bass Karl Stromeier collectively made
up the "Weimar Quartet". She was guest-singer in 1798 at Berlin, in
1800 at Vienna, and later in Stuttgart, Frankfurt am Main and
Leipzig.In 1809 her lover, Grand Duke Karl August, made her "Freifrau
(Baroness) von Heygendorff" and left her Heygendorf manor. Witnessed
by the Grand Duke, their son Karl was officially granted the
Heygendorff title on 16 May 1809 and he and his children entered the
Saxon grand-ducal nobility.
â€" 10 July 1848, in Dresden) was a major German tragedienne and
singer. Her great roles included Elizabeth in Mary Stuart (1800) and
Beatrice in The Bride of Messina (1803). She is also notable as a
mistress of Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, the
father of her three children. Both she and Karl August had their
portraits painted by Heinrich Christoph Kolbe.Henriette Karoline
Friedericke Jagemann was the daughter of the scholar and librarian
Christian Joseph Jagemann (1735â€"1804), and sister of the painter
Ferdinand Jagemann (1780â€"1820). She studied first at the Weimar
Princely Free Zeichenschule, where her brother was later a lecturer.
From 1790 she trained in acting and singing in Mannheim under August
Iffland and Heinrich Beck.She made her debut in 1792 in the title role
of the opera Oberon â€" The Fairy King by Paul Wranitzky at Mannheim's
Nationaltheater and was engaged as a court-singer in Weimar in 1797.
She and the soprano Henriette Eberwein (1790 - 1849), the tenor Carl
Melchior Jakob Moltke, and the bass Karl Stromeier collectively made
up the "Weimar Quartet". She was guest-singer in 1798 at Berlin, in
1800 at Vienna, and later in Stuttgart, Frankfurt am Main and
Leipzig.In 1809 her lover, Grand Duke Karl August, made her "Freifrau
(Baroness) von Heygendorff" and left her Heygendorf manor. Witnessed
by the Grand Duke, their son Karl was officially granted the
Heygendorff title on 16 May 1809 and he and his children entered the
Saxon grand-ducal nobility.
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