page_title: Anton Haizinger
section_title: In Karlsruhe
hierarchical_section_title: Anton Haizinger / In Karlsruhe
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Amalie Haizinger 1800-1884), deutsche Shauspielerin. Lithographie von Friedrich August Fricke, nach F. Georgi, um 1830
context_page_description: Anton Haizinger was an Austrian operatic tenor, performing in Vienna and later in Karlsruhe. He was a soloist in the premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
context_section_description: He had an engagement at the Karlsruher Hoftheatre, and his performance impressed the theatre director, Joseph von Auffenberg: in 1826 he offered Haizinger a lifelong engagement at the theatre. Haizinger settled in Karlsruhe. In 1827, he married Amalie Neumann; they had a son, and there were two stepdaughters.
  There were several tours: from 1828 to 1830 to Paris, and from 1831 to 1832 to London; he was in St. Petersburg in 1835.
  In London in 1832, Haizinger, with a German opera company brought to the King's Theatre by Joseph August Röckel, played Florestan in Beethoven's opera Fidelio. The Earl of Mount Edgcumbe wrote that his voice was "very beautiful", but the critic Henry Chorley described him as "a meritorious musician with an ungainly presence; an actor whose strenuousness in representing the hunger of the imprisoned captive in the dungeon trenched closely on burlesque".
  Haizinger retired in 1858, and afterwards appeared only occasionally. In Karlsruhe, he expanded the singing school he had started during his stage career, and he edited educational books for singers. He died in Karlsruhe in 1869.
caption: Amalie Haizinger, c.1830
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