Martina Janková

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Martina Janková (born 1972 in Orlová ) is a Czech - Swiss opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Janková belonged to her studies at the Basel Music Academy and the International Opera Studio in Zurich fourteen years the ensemble of the Zurich Opera House , where she under conductors such as Nikolaus Harnoncourt , William Christie , Mark Minkowski , Christopher Hogwood , Ádám Fischer and Ingo Metzmacher sang .

Opera

In Zurich, the artist created Mozart roles in particular , such as Susanna , Despina , Pamina and Zerlina as well as Celia in Lucio Silla . But she also sang Angelica in Handel's Orlando , the title role in Janáček's The Cunning Little Fox , Nanetta and Marzellina , Gretel in Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, or Ighino in Pfitzner's Palestrina .

The artist has a close collaboration with the Salzburg Festival . She made her debut in 2000 as First Lady in Luigi Cherubini's Médée , returned in 2001 as Echo in Ariadne auf Naxos and Karolka in Jenufa , then sang Papagena in 2002 , Tebaldo and Hermione in 2003 , Papagena again in 2005, Cherubino in 2007 and 2012 the Aminta in Mozart's Re pastore , finally the Despina in 2013 . She also took part in several concerts, most recently in 2012 and 2013 as part of the Ouverture spirituelle .

Further engagements took her as Marzelline to the Opéra National de Paris (as Ilia and Despina, as well as Sofia in Rossini's Il signor Bruschino ), to the Státní opera Praha , as Celia to the Wiener Festwochen and in several roles to the Grand Théâtre de Genève - among others as Drusilla in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea .

concert

Martina Janková is also a concert singer and sang with the Berlin and Munich Philharmonic , the Radio Symphony Orchestras Frankfurt and Berlin , the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra , the Concentus Musicus Vienna , the Czech Philharmonic , the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich and the La Scintilla orchestra of the Opera House Zurich and the Cleveland Orchestra under conductors such as Ivor Bolton , Bertrand de Billy , Riccardo Chailly , Iván Fischer , Sir John Eliot Gardiner , Daniele Gatti , Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Philippe Herreweghe , Marek Janowski , Sir Neville Marriner , Ingo Metzmacher, Sir Simon Rattle and Wolfgang Sawallisch .

Martina Janková could be heard as a lieder singer in London's Wigmore Hall , at the Prager Frühling , at the Rheingau Musik Festival and at the Festival Musiques en Été in Geneva, at the Styriarte in Graz, at the Lucerne Festival and at the Salzburg Festival . In addition, she sang several recitals at the Zurich Opera, including duo evenings with Bernarda Fink .

Recordings (selection)

Complete opera recordings

Solo recitals

  • Recollection, songs by Joseph Haydn
  • Bach cantatas, with Collegium 1704 under Václav Luks, 2013.

Awards

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Janková, Martina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech-Swiss opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Orlová