The queen of the coloratura with the PRSO
Among the star soloists who have accepted invitations to the 67th Prague Spring is the world renowned soprano Edita Gruberová. As with a festival recital four years ago, this time she will once again by accompanied by the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra (PRSO), under the baton of the young Ukraine conductor Andriy Yurkevych.
The sonorous canto, perfect breathing technique, wonderful legato, subtle pianissimo – in essence virtuoso and perfect singing of Edita Gruberová can be enjoyed by the audience at the Rudolfinum’s Dvořák Hall on Saturday 19 May. The programme includes arias, excerpts and orchestral parts from the following operas:
Ambroise Thomas: Raymond; Hamlet
Camille Saint-Saëns: Le Rossignol et la Rose
Charles Gounod: Romeo and Juliet; Mireille
Gioacchino Rossini: William Tell
Gaetano Donizetti: The Daughter of the Regiment
Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda
Vinzenzo Bellini: La Sonnambula
An honorary member of the Vienna State Opera, a lady who for many years has been among the absolute greatest and who has been an inspirational model to many of those who have come after her, Edita Gruberová is at present preparing a new role: Alaide in Bellini’s opera La Straniera. After a concert performance of it at Munich’s Gasteig this summer, she is set to appear in a new production at the Zurich Opera in June 2013. In 2015, she plans to take on that part again at the Theater an der Wien. The soprano’s diary for the next few years also includes the title roles in Donizetti’s Anna Bolena and Bellini’s Norma, in cities such as Vienna, Zurich, Munich, Berlin, Hamburg and Madrid.
The key moment in the career of Andriy Yurkevych has been studying and performing Bellini’s Norma with Edita Gruberová in Palermo, Mannheim and Duisburg, and in a concert staging in Cologne. The success of his collaboration with the Slovak singer was confirmed in another opera, Lucrezia Borgia (in Dortmund, Dresden and Cologne), as well as a series of joint concerts at the Herkulessaal in Munich and in Frankfurt and Vienna.
