Carla Henius

Carla Henius studied at Berlin University of the Arts. The recorded working language is German. Employment is recorded with Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. Distinctions recorded are Culture and Science Award of the City of Kiel and Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

• Name — Carla Henius • Born — 4 May 1919 • Birthplace — Mannheim, Germany • Died — 27 December 2002 • Place of death — Murnau am Staffelsee, Germany • Education — Musikhochschule Berlin • Occupation — * Operatic mezzo-soprano • Librettist • Academic voice teacher • Organizations — * Nationaltheater Mannheim • Musikhochschule Hannover • Awards — Federal Cross of Merit

Born in Mannheim, Henius studied at the Musikhochschule Berlin with Hans Emge, Maria Ivogün and Lula Mysz-Gmeiner. She made her debut at the Staatstheater Kassel in 1943, appearing the same year in the title role of Carl Orff's Die Kluge. She was a member of the Staatstheater Darmstadt from 1946, of the Pfalztheater in Kaiserslautern from 1949, and at the Nationaltheater Mannheim from 1951 to 1956, where she appeared in the title role in the premiere of Fred Raymond's operetta Geliebte Manuela in 1951. She was a lecturer at the Musikhochschule Hannover from 1957, appointed professor in 1962 and teaching until 1966. She kept working as a freelance singer, with a focus on more recent composers. On 13 April 1961, she performed at La Fenice in Venice in the premiere of Luigi Nono's Intolleranza 1960. She appeared at the Piccola Scala in Milan in 1965 in the premiere of Giacomo Manzoni's opera Atomtod. Her repertoire contained music from Arnold Schoenberg to Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luigi Nono, and she performed in operas by Boris Blacher, Werner Egk, Gottfried von Einem and Gerhard Wimberger. Dieter Schnebel composed for her in 1970/71, Atemzüge, für mehrere Stimmorgane und Reproduktionsgeräte, which she premiered in November 1971 in Rome, with Gisela Saur-Kontarsky and William Pearson. She was the vocal soloist in a 1961 recording of Le Marteau sans maître by Pierre Boulez, with flutist Severino Gazzelloni, violist Dino Asciolla, percussionist Leonida Torrebruno, conducted by Bruno Maderna. Henius was married to the intendant of the Opernhaus Kiel, Joachim Klaiber. He proposed from 1963, first with Peter Ronnefeld, then with Hans Zender, to devote a third of the program to contemporary opera. Henius was called 1977 to the Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen by the new Intendant, Claus Leininger to form and direct a musik-theater-werkstatt (Music Theatre Workshop). When Leininger moved to the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, she followed and directed a similar institution for new operas there. She died in Murnau am Staffelsee.

• Ein Traumspiel (1964). Opera libretto after Strindberg's A Dream Play, translated by Peter Weiss. Music: Aribert Reimann. Premiere 20 June 1965 at the Opernhaus Kiel.

The following is established of origins and background. Henius died in 2002 at Murnau am Staffelsee. It is also recorded that carla Henius was born in 1919 at Mannheim.

The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. It is also recorded that carla Henius is recorded with the occupation opera singer. Recorded with the occupation musicologist. Recorded with the occupation singer. Recorded with the occupation dramaturge. Recorded with the occupation musician. Institutional cataloguing adds that carla Henius is recorded with the occupation voice teacher. Recorded as a citizen of Germany. Recorded with the gender female. Institutional cataloguing adds that carla Henius was born on 4 May 1919. It is also recorded that carla Henius died on 27 December 2002.