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Robert Jindra

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Eva Urbanová

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Maida Hundeling

Luciano Mastro

Gianluca Zampieri

National Moravian-Silesian Theatre

Narozeninovy galakoncert Evy urbanove

Ostrava

Czech Republic

Antonín Dvořák Theatre

NAROZENINOVÝ GALAKONCERT EVY URBANOVÉ: Concert Various

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An interview with soprano EVA URBANOVA about a big voice that no one will want to listen to, about stubbornness, about a faith that is stronger than anything else and the joy of every day. Kateřina Huberová chatted with the singer in the Antonín Dvořák Theater before her concert in Ostrava. EVA URBANOVA definitely belongs to the most outstanding opera singers of recent decades. She has been a soloist at the National Theater since 1990, eight years later she made her debut as Ortrud in Wagner's Lohengrin at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. She also shone in other opera houses around the world. She collaborated with famous conductors, recorded albums, still likes to give concerts and perform in the opera. He has an American Grammy Award and is a French Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters. She is primarily a representative of dramatic roles. She likes the operas of Leoš Janáček - for the role of Kostelnička Buryjovka in the opera Jejų godmother, she won the Thálie Award twice. She has been a guest of the Moravian-Silesian National Theater Opera since 2010, and in collaboration with the then music director of the ensemble, Robert Jindra, she performed prominent roles in the operas Její pastorkyňa, Catalani's La Wally, Richard Wagner's Lohengrin, and Giordano's opera Andrea Chénier in the years 2010-2015. She was a guest in several productions of Janáček's Káti Kabanová, portrayed Emilia Marty in a concert performance of Janáček's The Affair of Makropulos, and also performed several times in Ostrava, most recently on the occasion of the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare in 2016. NDM organized a unique birthday gala concert for Eva Urbanová, the program consists of four operas in which she performed here in Ostrava. The NDM Opera Orchestra will be conducted by Robert Jindra.20:00. It will also be available via i-broadcast.

INTERVIEW WITH SOPRANO EVA URBANOVA - Moravian-Silesian National Theatre

The concert is dedicated to the life anniversary of an important Czech soprano, whom the Ostrava Theater had the honor of hosting in the period 2011–2016. The orchestra of the Moravian-Silesian National Theater will be conducted by Robert Jindra, who was fundamentally connected with this period as the musical director of the NDM Opera (2010-2015).
The program of the concert will remind of the important roles with which Eva Urbanová left an indelible mark in the history of the Ostrava opera. They are: La Wally in the opera of the same name (2012–2013), Ortrud in Lohengrin (2013), Emilia Marty in the semi-stage performance of The Makropulos Case (2012/2013), from which a musical recording was also made ( more HERE ), Maddalena from Coigny in Andre Chénier (2015–2017) and especially Kostelnička Buryjovka in Ježi pastorkyni (2011–2014). The program of the concert consists of important arias from the above-mentioned operas, and in its second part, the entire second act of Janáček's Její pastorkyně will be heard .

English

Koncert je věnovaný životnímu jubileu významné české sopranistky, kterou mělo ostravské divadlo tu čest hostit v období let 2011–2016. Orchestr opery Národního divadla moravskoslezského bude dirigovat Robert Jindra, který byl s tímto obdobím zásadně spjatý jako hudební ředitel opery NDM (2010–2015).
Program koncertu připomene významné role, kterými se Eva Urbanová nesmazatelně zapsala do historie ostravské opery. Jsou to: La Wally ve stejnojmenné opeře (2012–2013), Ortrud v Lohengrinovi (2013), Emilia Marty v poloscénickém provedení Věci Makropulos (2012/2013), ze kterého vznikla také hudební nahrávka (více ZDE), Maddalena z Coigny v Andreovi Chénierovi (2015–2017) a zejména Kostelnička Buryjovka v Její pastorkyni (2011–2014). Program koncertu sestává z významných árií výše zmíněných oper a v jeho druhé části zazní celé druhé dějství Janáčkovy Její pastorkyně.

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Narozeninovy galakoncert Evy urbanove by Various, From (2021/2021), Conductor Robert Jindra, Antonín Dvořák Theatre, Ostrava, Czech Republic

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