Jadwiga Wysoczanská-Štrosová

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Jadwiga Wysoczanská-Štrosová (born May 24, 1927 in Prague ; † March 31, 2021 there ) was a Czechoslovak opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Education and beginner years

Jadwiga Wysoczanská-Štrosová was after attending a business school at the age of sixteen students of the Prague Conservatory , where she studied with the vocal teacher Vojtěch Bořivoj Aim (1896-1972) and the well-known Czech contralto Marta Krasová (1901-1970). From 1945 to 1957 she also studied privately in Liberec with the singing teacher J. Logačová-Klemensová.

In 1945 she became a member of the opera choir of the newly founded Liberec National Theater . After a year she moved from 1946 to the Silesian Theater in Opava (Slezské divadlo Opava) , where she was already entrusted with individual solo tasks. In 1947 she made her debut at the Smetana Theater in Prague as Marenka in The Bartered Bride . In 1948 she returned to the National Theater in Liberec as a soloist, where she developed an “unbelievably wide range” of roles, from lyrical to youthful-dramatic to highly dramatic roles. Her versatility was based on her "high quality vocal technique, her innate musicality and her extremely serious musical approach", which led her to Smetana and Mozart roles in particular.

In the first complete Smetana cycle after the Second World War , which the conductor Jaromír Žid (1898–1954) performed in Liberec in 1954, she took part in all productions with the exception of Die Brandenburger in Böhmen . She had great success in the roles of Marenka, which she sang for the first time in 1954 in Liberec, and Vendulka in The Kiss , which later became an integral part of her repertoire. At the Liberec National Theater in 1954 she also sang Blaženka in The Secret and the Smetana roles Hedvika in The Devil's Wall , Anetka in Two Widows and Milada in Dalibor .

At the age of 22 she was cast in the title role of the opera Libussa , which she also performed at the Smetana Festival in 1954. Her other roles in Czech operas, which she sang during her engagement in Liberec, included the heroine in Rusalka , Julia in The Jacobin and Lidunka in Vilém Blodek's opera Im Brunnen .

She also appeared in Liberec in a number of demanding roles from a wide variety of areas of the operatic repertoire, including as Musetta in Puccini's La Bohème , as Micaëla , in the title role of the opera Halka , as Tatjana , as Agathe in Der Freischütz and as Aida . In 1954 she took over Elisabeth in Liberec in the first Czech production of Tannhäuser after the Second World War.

Engagements in Brno and Prague

At the beginning of the 1954/55 season, Jadwiga Wysoczanská became a soloist at the National Theater in Brno . Her first rehearsed premiere was Janáček's opera The Excursions of Mr Brouček , in which she played the triple role of Malinka-Eterea-Kunka, followed by Marenka and Marfa in The Tsar's Bride . In addition, she has been cast in a number of roles in the classical repertoire, including: as Aida, Madame Butterfly and as Jenůfa .

In Brno she also sang successfully Rusalka and Donna Elvira in the new production of Don Giovanni , which was rehearsed in 1956 on the occasion of the 200th birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . She received great applause for her Sophie in a production of Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier , which was performed in 1957 by the conductor František Jílek and the German guest director Carl Riha with Soňa Červená in the title role. At the Janáček Festival in 1958 she sang the fox in The Cunning Little Fox and was part of the first cast of the Janáček opera Osud as Kosinska . In Semjon Kotko she played the role of Sofia, in Josef Bohuslav Foerster's opera Jessika she sang the title role. She also took on the comic role of Agatha in the Czechoslovak premiere of Bohuslav Martinů's opera The Marriage .

After a successful guest performance as Aida, Jadwiga Wysoczanska was engaged by the director Jan Seidel (1908–1998) as a soloist at the National Theater in Prague in 1960 , to which she was a member for more than thirty years until her retirement (1992). There she sang again frequently in Smetana roles, but also Aida, Tatjana, Donna Anna and Pamina . In 1963 she appeared with the ensemble of the National Theater in Prague at the Holland Festival as Rusalka, under Jaroslav Krombholc with Ivo Žídek and Eduard Haken as partners.

Concerts and audio documents

She also appeared as a concert singer. In 1967 she sang the soprano solo in Beethoven's 9th Symphony under Václav Neumann at the Prague Spring Festival . In 1970 she appeared as a soloist in the 9th Symphony with the Czechoslovak Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Alois Kléma on a tour of Italy .

In 1975/76 she embodied the Freischütz Agathe in a TV production on Czech television . In a complete recording of the opera Rusalka with Milada Šubrtová in the title role, published by the Czech label Supraphon , she can be heard as “First Elf”. She also recorded sacred music and Czech folk songs.

death

Jadwiga Wysoczanská-Štrosová died in Prague at the end of March 2021 at the age of 93 after a long illness.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Dnes zemřela sopranistka Jadwiga Wysoczanská-Štrosová. In: operaplus.cz. March 31, 2021, accessed April 5, 2021 (Czech).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Mojmír Weimann: Bezmála půlstoletí služby české opeře. Soprano Jadwiga Wysoczanská slaví devadesátiny. In: operaplus.cz. May 24, 2017, Retrieved April 5, 2021 (Czech).
personal data
SURNAME Wysoczanská-Štrosová, Jadwiga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wysoczanská, Jadwiga (maiden name); Nováková, Jadwiga (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Prague