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DutchDivas in the 401DutchOperas book-I
The 401 Dutch Operas book Vol I charts the development of Dutch operas from Sweelinck to the end of the French Period. This development goes hand in hand with the history of Dutch singers, as most Dutch operas were naturally created by Dutch Divas & Divos.
Vol I begins with Sweelinck's secular song cycles from around 1594 and continues through the end of the French Period, during which composers such as Ruloffs, Meissner, Beethoven (the Zutphen birth legend is explored), and the Gouda/Frisian Jean des Communes predominate. Much has been lost over the past 225 years, but a number of singers’ names came down through time. These included Utricia Ogle (the muse of Constantijn Huygens), Rose Baptiste Anselme (the muse of Jacob Jan van Wassenaer and the audience of the French Theatre The Hague), Anna Davia (Diva in the travelling company of Domenico De Amicis), Princess Carolina (who probably performed Mozart's very first opera experiments from The Hague herself) and Ernestine Louisa Anderegg (muse and wife of Bartholomeus Ruloffs).
DutchDiva of the Moment
From Huygens & Utricia Ogle to Elly Ameling & Cyril Auvity
Homo universalis Constantijn Huygens composed the anonymously published song and psalm collection "Pathodia Sacra et Profana Occupati" in 1646. Huygens' primary goal was to impress his muse at the time, harpsichordist and singer Utricia Ogle, to whom the work is dedicated. The scabrous/amourous/masochistic songs (just listen to "Con la candida man") demonstrate his knowledge of the latest fashions in Italy and France at the time. Besides Boësset, Monteverdi and his idol Luigi Rossi also resonate. Since the collection's rediscovery by Aafke Komter-Kuipers in 1934, Jo Vincent and the contralto Annie Hermes have been gradually putting Huygens on the map. Several complete recordings are now available, including the 1979 EMI LP with soprano Elly Ameling and bass Max van Egmond, the 2000 NM-Classics CD with soprano Anne Grimm, bass Peter Kooij, mezzo Wilke te Brummelstroete, and tenor Nico van der Meel, and the 2020 Glossa recording with tenor Cyril Auvity. The 401 Dutch Operas Handbook I devotes over 14 pages to Huygens, the Pathodia Profana, muse Utricia Olgle, and the pathodia discography.
Marijke van der Lugt
photo: Particam
Marijke van der Lugt (Maria Grin) was born on 5 January 1919 in Rotterdam as daughter of a navy officer. At first she wanted to be a teacher, but after the discovery of her singing talents, she went to The Hague to study with Mrs. Zegers van der Beyl. She debuted after World War II, still under her own name (Maria Grin), as operetta singer at the radio, sang in opera concert performances en gave concerts.
She made her debut with the Nederlandsche Opera on 2 May 1958 in the title role of Puccini's Turandot, alternate with Antoinette Tiemessen. She sang many Verdi-operas, Amelia (Un ballo in maschera), Aida, Abigaille (Nabucco), but performed also roles as Donna Anna (Don Giovanni, Mozart), Brünnhilde (Walküre, Wagner), Ortrud (Lohengrin, Wagner), Santuzza (Cavalleria Rusticana, Mascagni), Turandot, Elektra (Richard Strauss), Leonore (Fidelio, Beethoven) and Prokne (Philomela, Hendrik Andriessen, Holland Festival 1962). She sang also with that time Opera Forum (now Nationale Reisopera) and co-operated in the television opera Alceste (1963, T.de Leeuw).
Debuted as an operetta-singer. She appeared in the fifties at the 'Nederlandse Opera', where she sang in Verdi-operas , but also sang in roles as Santuzza (Cavalleria Rusticana), Turandot, Elektra, Prokne (Philomela). She co-operated with the television-opera Alceste (1963, T.de Leeuw). Also appearances abroad, such as in London, Vienna, Zürich, Verona (as La Gioconda) and at German theatres.
photo: Algemeen Hollands Fotopersbureau
Marijke van der Lugt as Turandot and Hans Kaart as Calaf in Puccini's Turandot, De Nederlandse Opera, 1961
She appeared also regurly abroad, a.o. in London (Covent Garden), Vienna (Staats Oper), Zürich, Verona (as La Gioconda together with the tenor Carlo Bergonzi). In Germany she sang in 1965 in the Deutschen Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf-Duisburg the role of Isolde in Tristan und Isolde and Elektra in the same named opera of Richard Strauss. During some time she joined the Stadttheater von Münster (Westfalen). An invitation to sing in the United States she declined because her family with four children.
End seventies Marijke van der Lugt finished her international singing career and applied herself to singing education. From 1975 she lead in The Hague a private singing school with about twenty pupils.
Marijke van der Lugt died on 2 September 1989 in her hometown The Hague.
Trovatore: "Di te ... Tu vedrai" , recorded.1960
