After winning a singing competition in Toulouse, she was then engaged as a soloist of the opera ensemble of the J. In 1968, Gruberová made her operatic debut at the National Theatre in Bratislava as Rosina in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia. She would later study with Ruthilde Boesch in Vienna. While studying there, she was a singer of the Lúčnica folk ensemble and appeared several times in the Slovak National Theatre. She then continued at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (VŠMU). Gruberová began her musical studies at the Bratislava Conservatory ( Konzervatórium v Bratislave), where she was a student of Mária Medvecká. The pastor of the parish where she prepared for Confirmation accompanied her when she sang solos at church, and prepared her in piano playing to pass the exam to enter the conservatory. She sang in a school choir and in the children's choir of the broadcaster. Her father drank and she developed a close relationship with her mother. As an anti-communist, her father survived a five-year prison sentence for treason. She is remembered as the " Slowakische Nachtigall" (Slovak Nightingale), and as prima donna assoluta.Įdita Gruberová was born on 23 December 1946 in Rača, Bratislava, to a German father and a Hungarian mother. In 2019, she portrayed Elisabetta in Donizetti's Roberto Devereux, who leaves her throne, concluding a stage career performing leading roles over 51 years. In her later career, she explored heavier roles in the Italian bel canto repertoire, such as the title role in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, and Elvira in Bellini's I puritani. She received international recognition for roles such as Mozart's Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte and Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss. She made her stage debut in Bratislava in 1968 as Rosina in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia, and successfully auditioned at the Vienna State Opera the following year, which became her base. Edita Gruberová ( Slovak: 23 December 1946 – 18 October 2021) was a Slovak coloratura soprano.
0 kommentar(er)
