Jochen Kowalski |

Jochen Kowalski

Unyanzvi hwe countertenor, iyo mumazana emakore apfuura yaishandiswa chete munziyo dzechechi, iko zvino kwaita mukurumbira wayo. Izvo zvese zvakatanga nenyaya yekuti Benjamin Britten akagadzira basa rekutanga munhoroondo yemimhanzi yemazuva ano zvakanangana nezwi iri - chaive chikamu cheOberon mune opera A Midsummer Night's Dream. Zvisinei, iyo yose-yakazara fashoni yevanopikisa yakagadziridzwa gare gare, nekupararira kwechokwadi mukuita kwekare (kunyanya baroque) mimhanzi. Yakamboitwa ne castrati. Asi muzana remakore rechi20, utsinye hwakadai sokukanda mapfumo pasi hwakava husingabviri, uye varwi vakanga vava kudiwa munzvimbo yavo itsva. Ndivo vakatanga kuimba mimhanzi yeMonteverdi naHandel, Cavalli naGluck kwese. Uye, kunyangwe hunhu hwezwi re castrato uye countertenor zvisinganyatsoenderana, zvisinei, izvi hazvinetse vateveri vehuchokwadi zvachose. Chimwe chikamu cheanopikisa ndiko kutsiva mezzo-soprano uye contralto mumabasa ekutambisa.

Yaiva muchikamu chetravesty cheFyodor muBoris Godunov kuti muGermany Johan Kowalski (b. 1983) akaita kutanga kwake muna 1954 pachikuva cheKomische Oper. Muimbi uyu akawana mukurumbira wenyika mushure mekugadzirwa kwakakurumbira kweGluck's "Orpheus" munhandare imwe cheteyo, yakaitwa naHarry Kupfer muna Zvita 1987 uye yakarongwa kuti ienderane nekuyeukwa kwe200 kwekufa kwemuimbi mukuru. Muna 1989, kuita uku kwakaendeswa kuCovent Garden stage.

Kowalski zvakare mutambi asingaenzaniswi wechikamu chePrince Orlovsky muThe Bat. Akave wake wekutanga kuMetropolitan (1995), akaiimba kakawanda kuVienna Opera (1991-1994) nemamwe matheater. Muna 1993, paSalzburg Festival, Kowalski akatora chikamu mukugadzirwa kwakanaka kweMonteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea naJurgen Flimm naNikolaus Harnoncourt (Ottone). Mamwe mabasa anosanganisira Julius Caesar muHandel's opera yezita rimwechete (1993, Schwetzingen; 1998, Berlin, nezvimwewo). Iyo countertenor's repertoire inosanganisirawo Handel's operas Giustino uye Alcina, Mozart's Mithridates, Mambo wePontasi.