Gabriela Benacková

While most widely known for her achievements in Czech music, especially that of Dvorák and Smetana, Benackova has performed in almost all the lirico-spinto soprano assignments in the Italian repertoire. She’s earned equal compliment on her behalf musicianship and vocal beauty, though she actually is sometimes accused of getting a non-Italianate coolness to people jobs. She’s also sung the greater lyric Wagner jobs, including Eva and Senta. Her opera debut was on the Country wide Movie theater in Prague, as Natasha in Prokofiev’s Battle and Peacefulness, in 1970. In 1975, she sang her first Jenufa there; like Dvorák’s Rusalka, that function provides since become among her signatures. Jenufa was also the automobile on her behalf 1978 Vienna Condition Opera debut. In 1979, she produced her Covent Backyard debut as Tatyana in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. She sang the name function of Smetana’s Libuse for the re-opening from the Country wide Movie theater in Prague in 1983. Her Met debut was as Kát’a Kabanová in 1991, which she also documented with Sir Charles Mackerras in 1997. She also continuing her career being a concert musician in functions by Dvorák, Janácek, and Mahler. Benackova continues to be mixed up in recovery of Gustav Mahler’s birthplace at Kaliste in the Czech Republic.