Jolana Fogašová News
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- soprano
- Czechoslovakia, Slovakia
- opera singer
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From the house of the living
From a New York Philharmonic concert in January 1971 in which Janet Baker sang Les nuits d’été to this 2010 Wiener Philharmoniker concert, Pierre Boulez continuously challenged me and totally changed the way I listen to music. I actually skipped a Mahler Third with Mariss Jansons a few months ago because after hearing Boulez do it with the Philharmoniker, that was it: no one will ever come close to what Boulez achieved that afternoon. I met the maestro on a few occasions (the last time was after the premiere of Z mrtvého domu in 2007, where he was just standing alone outside the stage door). Contrary to most accounts, I found him affable, charming, and humorous, with an incredible memory. I mentioned the concert—36 years before—where Baker sang the Berlioz, and he said, “Ah, yes. I remember it well. She was so very special. We did the Bruckner Te […]
2015-03-23 14:00:21
Big river
Quick: name a Dvorák opera! “Rusalka?” Score one point. Now, list the 11 others. Yup, an even dozen, of which the tale of the water sprite was composed at the end of his life. A quarter of a century earlier, for his fourth opera Dvorák chose to venture into the land of the five-act grand opera with Vanda. Was he listening to a lot of Meyerbeer? Wikipedia is rather terse when it comes to a synopsis: “The story is about the Polish queen who drowns herself in the Vistula in order to save her people from the German invaders.” But the lovely people who maintain the official Dvorák Web site will tell you more than you ever wanted to know about drowned queens. Antonín Dvorák: Vanda Národní divadlo Praha Gerd Albrecht, conductor 09 May 2004 Vanda – Olga Romanenko Slavoj – Valentin Prolat Roderich – […]
2015-03-22 14:00:21
Big river
Quick: name a Dvorák opera! “Rusalka?” Score one point. Now, list the 11 others. Yup, an even dozen, of which the tale of the water sprite was composed at the end of his life. A quarter of a century earlier, for his fourth opera Dvorák chose to venture into the land of the five-act grand opera with Vanda. Was he listening to a lot of Meyerbeer? Wikipedia is rather terse when it comes to a synopsis: “The story is about the Polish queen who drowns herself in the Vistula in order to save her people from the German invaders.” But the lovely people who maintain the official Dvorák Web site will tell you more than you ever wanted to know about drowned queens. Antonín Dvorák: Vanda Národní divadlo Praha Gerd Albrecht, conductor 09 May 2004 Vanda – Olga Romanenko Slavoj – Valentin Prolat Roderich – […]
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