Soňa Červená
Soňa Červená (born September 9, 1925 in Prague ) is a Czech opera singer with an alto voice and an actress .
Life
After starting out with light music and performances in operettas Soňa Červená began vocal studies in Prague. She received her first opera engagement in Brno (1954 to 1957). From 1958 to 1962 she was part of the ensemble of the Berlin State Opera . After fleeing to West Germany in 1962, she was engaged at the Deutsche Oper Berlin . Guest performances have taken her to the Dresden State Opera , the Vienna State Opera , the Hamburg State Opera , the Bayreuth Festival (1960 to 1967), the Glyndebourne Festival (1963 and 1964) and the Salzburg Festival (1961). She also appeared at the San Francisco Opera House (1971), as well as in Frankfurt am Main (1961 to 1974, then again in 1987 and 1988), at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels (1983).
Her repertoire included roles such as Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss , the title role in Carmen by Georges Bizet , Countess Geschwitz in Lulu by Alban Berg and Kabaniča in Katja Kabanowa by Leoš Janáček .
In 2010 Červená appeared as Emilia Marty in The Makropulos Case by Leoš Janáček under the direction of Robert Wilson at the National Theater in Prague . During the communist era, she was banned from appearing there because she came from a middle-class family.
Since 1947, Červená has repeatedly worked as a film and television actress in Czech and German-language productions. Among other things, she was seen in an Austrian TV version of Robert Wilson's adaptation of William S. Burroughs The Black Rider in 1990 . In 1999 she appeared in the television version of a Thalia Theater production of Stories from the Vienna Woods and two years later in Nicolette Krebitz's directorial debut Jeans . In 2017, at the age of 91, she played a supporting role in an episode of the ZDF television series Munich Murder .
She also wrote two books: on the one hand, her autobiography Homesickness Forbidden - My Piece of Theater and World History and the biography of her grandfather, the musical instrument maker Václav František Červený , under the title Grüß Gott, Herr Cerven .
Discography
- Bizet: Carmen (as Carmen). Berlin Classics.
- Martinů : Prague Paris New York (songs). Salamander.
- Wagner: Parsifal (as a flower girl). Philips.
- Portrait of Sona Cervena (songs). Supraphone.
Filmography
- 1947: The Last of the Mohicans (Poslední mohykán)
- 1949: Spring storms (Revolucni rok 1848)
- 1952: Groschenliedchen (Písnicka za gros)
- 1953: The kidnapping (Únos)
- 1953: The hat that works wonders (Divotvorný klobouk)
- 1965: Dame Kobold (TV movie)
- 1968: The Spinning Room (TV movie)
- 1990: The Black Rider (TV movie)
- 1998: Last Vodka (short film)
- 1999: Stories from the Vienna Woods
- 2001: jeans
- 2003: Pupendo
- 2004: The Beautiful Bride in Black (TV movie)
- 2010: Zitra se bude (opera)
- 2017: Munich Murder - One Who Made It (TV series)
literature
- Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . 4th edition, Volume 2. Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-598-44088-5 , p. 791.
- Ingo von Münch: Sona Cervena - to success with discipline and passion. In: Die Welt, March 6, 2003
Web links
- Literature by and about Soňa Červená in the catalog of the German National Library
- Soňa Červená at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singing Lexicon
- Soňa Červená in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Ingo von Münch: Sona Cervena - to success with discipline and passion. In: Die Welt from March 6, 2003, accessed on June 20, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Červená, Soňa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech opera singer with alto voice and actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |