Jana Jonášová News
Czech opera singer and educator
- soprano
- Czech Republic
- opera singer, academic musician, actor
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2015-11-20 03:30:00
Opera Favourites #1 - French and German
[…] Andreas Schneibner, Will Quadflieg. Rundfunkchor Leipzig & Staatskapelle Dresden Colin Davis Philips 426 319-2 (1990) Carl Maria von WeberDer Freischütz Wolfgang Holzmair, Gilles Cachemaille, Luba Orgonasova, Christine Schäfer, Matti Salminen, Endrik Wottrich, Kurt Moll, Ekkehard Schall. Rundfunkchor Berlin & Berliner PhilharmonikerNikolaus HarnoncourtTeldec 4509-97758-2 (1995) Leoš Janáček Jenůfa Marie Mrázová, Wieslaw Ochman, Peter Dvorský, Eva Randová, Elisabeth Söderström, Václav Zítek, Dalibor Jedlička, Ivana Mixová, Lucia Popp, Vera Soukopová, Jindra Pokorná, Jana Jonasová. Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener PhilharmonikerCharles MackerrasDecca 414 483-2 (1982) Henry Purcell Dido and Aeneas Jessye Norman, Thomas Allen, Marie McLaughlin, Patricia Kern, Helen Walker, Della Jones, Elizabeth Gale, Patrick Power, Derek Ragin. Chorus & English Chamber Orchestra Raymond Leppard Philips 416 299-2 (1985) Henry Purcell Dido and Aeneas Catherine Bott, John Mark Ainsley, Emma Kirkby, David Thomas, Elisabeth Priday, Sara Stowe, Julianne Baird, Daniel Lochmann, Michael Chance. Chorus and Orchestra […]
2015-07-13 16:00:39
Crime of “Passion”
Bohuslav Martinu’s The Greek Passion has had a rough life. Written between 1954 and 1957 to his own English libretto based on the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis (who also wrote Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ), the opera was first approved—then rejected for being too radical—by Covent Garden. Martinu then produced a second, more conservative version of the opera, fundamentally a totally different work which retained only about thirty percent of the original score, which didn’t reach the stage till 1961, two years after the composer’s death. This “Zürich Version” was produced by various major opera companies over the next decades. Ales Brezina, the head of the Bohuslav Martinu Institute in Prague, undertook a complete reconstruction of the original “English Version,” which premiered at the 1999 Bregenzer Festspiele, where it starred Christopher Ventris (as Manolios), Nina Stemme (as Katerina), and Jonas Kaufmann (as Nikolios). For its […]
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