Kipras Petrauskas Vidéos
artiste lyrique, personnalité politique
Commémorations 2025 (Naissance: Kipras Petrauskas)
- ténor
- Empire russe, Lituanie, Union soviétique
Dernière mise à jour
2024-04-27
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Kipras Petrauskas Herzog Shaliapin Rimsky Korsakov Gounod Mariinsky Theatre Scala Odeon 1885 1905 1911 1920 1928 1933 1936 1948 1949 1958 1968 2008
The great Lithuanian tenor Kipras Petrauskas +••.••(...)) received his musical education from his father (who was a woodworker by trade and also worked as organist for various churches) and his elder brother Mikas (who was a well-known music teacher and composer). His artistic career began in 1905 (and after many striking twists, ended!) in Vilnius where he began to sing in his brother‘s musical productions. Realizing that he needed further training, Petrauskas subsequently moved to St. Petersburg where he continued his vocal studies at the conservatory. During his four years there, he sang the leading tenor roles in many student productions, including Yevgeny Onegin, Faust and others. Upon leaving the Conservatory, then already a popular tenor Кипрiанъ Пiатровскiй was bombarded by contracts. He chose the Mariinsky theatre in St. Petergsburg where he debuted in the Herzog‘s role in Rigoletto in 1911. Petrauskas remained there for the next decade and developed more than 50 memorable roles, including those in La Traviata, Tosca, La Bohème, Manon, Faust and others. As Petrauskas matured, he began to take on more dramatic roles such as Don José in Carmen, Radames in Aida, Canio in Pagliacci, the title roles in Andrea Chénier, Lohengrin and even Otello. The handsome tenor swept along many beauties of St. Petersburg (the M. and K. Petrauskas‘ museum in Kaunas keeps some 400 their billets-doux). After returning to his native Lithuania in the early 1920s, the singer was instrumental in establishing the Lithuanian Opera Theatre in the town of Kaunas (the Opera was opened on December 31, 1920; after the WWII, it moved to Vilnius). In 1928 Petrauskas accompanied Fedor Shaliapin, his close friend since St. Peterburg days, on the Berlin stage. The next year and with the same company he took a long tour through Europe to the South America (a similar trip took place also in 1936). In 1933, the singer made his impressive La Scala debut as Grishka Kuterma in Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh. Kipras Petrauskas is remembered for his charming lyricism, natural artistic restraint, good taste and his considerable musicianship which permeated every phrase he sang. He enjoyed an unusually long career (more than fifty years) and developed an impressive repertoire of over eighty roles. His final stage appearance was as Don José in Carmen in 1958 in Vilnius, at the age of 73. By that time, the elderly tenor was a Professor of Voice at the Vilnius Conservatory, a post he assumed in 1949. Most of his his ‘golden’ records were produced between 1920 and 1948 on the shellac disks. ‘The great Lithuanian tenor’ is a splendid set of two CDs (Lithuania, Prior Musica, 2008) containing Petrauskas’ remastered records from Algirdas Motieka collection and a 32-page booklet. The first CD is devoted to the operatic repertoire, the second one covers song repertoire. In this recording, Petrauskas offers a Russian language version of Faust‘s cavatine ‘Salut, demeure chaste et pure’ from the famous Gounod’s opera. The shellac record was published by Odeon.
Verdi Franco Corelli Corelli Luciano Pavarotti Ferruccio Tagliavini Luigi Infantino Eugenio Fernandi Renato Cioni Nicolai Gedda Franco Bonisolli Francisco Araiza Bloch Mario Filippeschi Giacinto Prandelli Mario Lanza Bruno Landi Landi Carlo Bergonzi Tito Schipa Jan Kiepura Giovanni Malipiero Malipiero Alfredo Kraus Tino Pattiera Ion Buzea Beniamino Gigli Kipras Petrauskas Giacomo Lauri Volpi Volpi Helge Rosvaenge Cesare Valletti Giacomo Aragall Frederick Jagel Florencio Constantino Jerry Hadley Hadley Antonio Paoli Gianni Raimondi Raimondi Joseph Schmidt Schmidt Daniele Barioni Tony Poncet Giovanni Martinelli Antonio Cortis Miguel Fleta Aureliano Pertile Richard Tucker Enrico Caruso
1. Franco Corelli 2. Luciano Pavarotti 3. Jussi Bjorling 4. Ferruccio Tagliavini 5. Luigi Infantino 6. Eugenio Fernandi 7. Renato Cioni 8. Nicolai Gedda 9. Giuseppe Bentonelli 10. Franco Bonisolli 11. Alessandro Granda 12. Francisco Araiza 13. Max Bloch 14. Mario Filippeschi 15. Jerome LoMonaco 16. Giacinto Prandelli 17. Mario Lanza 18. Bruno Landi 19. Carlo Bergonzi 20. Tito Schipa 21. Jan Kiepura 22. Giovanni Malipiero 23. Alfredo Kraus 24. Tino Pattiera 25. Ion Buzea 26. Beniamino Gigli 27. Kipras Petrauskas 28. Giacomo Lauri Volpi 29. Helge Rosvaenge 30. Cesare Valletti 31. Giacomo Aragall 32. Frederick Jagel 33. Florencio Constantino 34. Jerry Hadley 35. Giuseppe Di Stefano 36. Antonio Paoli 37. Gianni Raimondi 38. Joseph Schmidt 39. Daniele Barioni 40. Tony Poncet 41. Giovanni Martinelli 42. Antonio Cortis 43. Miguel Fleta 44. Aureliano Pertile 45. Richard Tucker 46. Enrico Caruso 47. Mario Del Monaco
Dovana Kaunui – Iš muzikinio teatro? Vieną vėlyvą rudenio vakarą mama su sūnumi atvyko į Nacionalinį Kauno muzikinį teatrą. Jie ruošėsi pamatyti operą pavadinimu „Traviata“, kadangi vaikas nepaprastai anksti pradėjo rodyti neįprastą susidomėjimą šiuo žanru… Tai buvo pirmoji opera, parodyta muzikiniame teatre nuo pat jo įkūrimo. Ir pagrindinį Alfredo vaidmenį atliko teatro įkūrėjas. Berniukas į teatrą atsinešė mėlyną krokodilą, kurį jis vadino Kipu. Retai kada išsiskirdavo su šiuo žaislu. Pakeliui į rūbinę stovėjo kreminės spalvos fortepijonas, priklausęs garsiam kultūros veikėjui Kiprui Petrauskui. Motina paėmė judviejų švarkus, norėdama juos palikti rūbinėje, ir paprašė vaiko likti šalia instrumento, kad vėliau galėtų jį lengvai rasti. Berniukas iš smalsumo minkė istorinio fortepijono klavišus, ir vaikščiodamas aplink fortepijoną stebėjosi, kaip masyvi medinė dėžutė padarė garsą. Suskambo paskutinis skambutis, kviečiantis į salę ir motina skubino vaiką užimti savo vietas auditorijoje. Pasibaigus operai mama ir vaikas paliko teatrą kupini įspūdžių, kad berniukas net mylimą žaislą paliko rūbinėje... Mėlynasis krokodilas Kipas liko gulėti ant fortepijono, kol paskutinis žmogus išėjo iš teatro. Išjungė visas šviesas, teatro patalpa liko apšviesta tik blankia išėjimo ženklo šviesa. Tada ir prasidėjo keisti dalykai... / A Gift For Kaunas – From the Musical Theatre? One late Autumn evening the mother brought her son to the National Musical Theatre of Kaunas. They went to see an opera called ”Traviata“ since the child showed unusual fondness of operas from a young age... It was the first opera shown in the Musical Theatre since its establishment and the main role of Alfred was played by the founder of the theatre. The boy was carrying his blue crocodile who he named Kip together with him since he rarely ever parted ways with the toy. On their way to the cloakroom stood a cream-coloured forte-piano which belonged to a famous cultural figure Kipras Petrauskas. The mother took both of their jackets to be placed in the cloakroom and asked him to stay near the instrument, so she could find him later. The boy, out of curiosity started pushing the keys of the historical forte-piano, and wandering around it, puzzled how the massive wooden box made sound. The last bell rang and the mother rushed her child to take their seats in the main auditorium. After the opera the mother and child left the theatre having so many impressions on their heads that the boy even left his beloved toy in the cloakroom… Blue crocodile Kip left on the forte-piano until the last person left the theatre, turning all of the lights off and leaving the room illuminated only by the dim light of the exit sign. That is when strange things started to happen… / Autoriai / authors: Vilniaus dailės akademija, Kauno fakultetas, Taikomoji grafika / Vilnius Academy of Arts, Kaunas Faculty, Applied Graphics – Jonas Vaikšnoras, Miglė Stančiauskaitė; Tbilisio meno akademija, Vizualiųjų menų fakultetas, Grafikos katedra, Knygos dizaino ir iliustracijos studija / Tbilisi State Academy of Art, Visual Art Faculty, Graphic Department, Book Design and Illustration Studio – Marita Mikelashvili, Nutsa Getsadze, Nino Narimanishvili, Sopho Mamaladze / TAKI2020 Projektą remia / sponsored by ,,Kaunas auga“, ,,Iniciatyvos Kaunui“. Partneriai / partners „Kauno fotografijos galerija", „Virgo Print".
Virgilijus Noreika Edvard Grieg Kipras Petrauskas Verdi Edgaras Montvidas Sergej Larin Kristian Benedikt Merūnas Vitulskis Scala Bolshoi Liceu Staatsoper Staatsoper Berlin Teatro Colón Royal Swedish Opera Opera Chicago 1935 1958 1959 1965 1970 1976 1991 1993 2017 2018
The great Lithuanian lirico-spinto tenor Virgilijus Kęstutis Noreika +••.••(...)) was born in Šiauliai, Lithuania. In 1958, he graduated with honors from the Lithuanian Conservatoire, where he studied singing in the class of another great Lithuanian tenor Kipras Petrauskas. Next year, in 1959, Noreika debuted in the Lithuanian Opera where he performed Alfredo in Verdi's La traviata, one of Noreika's favorite and most frequently performed roles. In 1965-66, he was the first in the post-war Lithuania to go to internship at La Scala where he mastered six roles in operas including the part of Pinkerton which he sang at that famous Opera House. Later the singer appeared on the stage of La Scala several more times with the Moscow Bolshoi that was on tour in Milan. He had been repeatedly invited to become a member of the Bolshoi but he chose to stay in Vilnius. Later, in 1970, he became People‘s Artist of the USSR (the highest artistic award in the former USSR) but, in spite of many invitations from Metropolitan, San Francisko Opera, Liceu Barcelona and many others, Noreika remained cordoned off from the West during his long blooming years. Later he sang in Staatsoper Berlin, Opéra National de Paris, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm, Lithuanian Opera of Chicago, and more than 30 others. Noreika's creative biography comprises more than 40 operatic roles: Cavaradossi, Faust, Rodolfo from La bohème, and finally, in his mature years, Otello, to name a few. In 1976 – 1991 he was the artistic director of the Lithuanian Opera, in 1993 – 94 he taught at the Academy of Latin American Singing in Karakas (Venezuela), since 1976 Noreika was a professor at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (Edgaras Montvidas, Sergej Larin (whose tomb is now next to his teacher‘s), Kristian Benedikt, Merūnas Vitulskis and many others were among his students.) Noreika performed more than 600 solo concerts, recorded 20 phonographic records and CDs. In order to honor his achievements, the First International Virgilijus Noreika Competition for Singers was organised in 2017. The competition will take place every four years around the birth date of Noreika. Romances, songs, and in particular folk songs, always occupied an important part of Noreika‘s repertoire. No matter where, at home or in France, in Russia or elsewhere, a Lithuanian song was almost a must (see, for example, (http•••) In our video, Noreika presents a touching performance of a romance ‘Ved Rondane // At Rondane’ by a Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg praising the beauty of his enchanting motherland and the wild mountains in the National park Rondane. This recording is taken from (http•••) We also thank Thomas Granrud for his 'One year in Rondane'.
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