13 Facts About Carla Henius

Carla Henius was a German operatic soprano and mezzo-soprano, voice teacher and librettist.

Carla Henius played a decisive role in promoting recent works by composers such as Arnold Schoenberg, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luigi Nono for the stage.

Carla Henius wrote the libretto for an opera by Aribert Reimann.

Carla Henius made her debut at the Staatstheater Kassel in 1943, appearing the same year in the title role of Carl Orff's Die Kluge.

Carla Henius 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.

Carla Henius was a lecturer at the Musikhochschule Hannover from 1957, appointed professor in 1962 and teaching until 1966.

Carla Henius kept working as a freelance singer, with a focus on more recent composers.

Carla Henius appeared at the Piccola Scala in Milan in 1965 in the premiere of Giacomo Manzoni's opera Atomtod.

Carla Henius's 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.

Carla Henius was the vocal soloist in a 1961 recording of Le Marteau sans maitre by Pierre Boulez, with flutist Severino Gazzelloni, violist Dino Asciolla, percussionist Leonida Torrebruno, conducted by Bruno Maderna.

Carla Henius was married to the intendant of the Opernhaus Kiel, Joachim Klaiber.

Carla Henius proposed from 1963, first with Peter Ronnefeld, then with Hans Zender, to devote a third of the program to contemporary opera.

Carla 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.