Sena Jurinac

Soprano Sena Jurinac (pronounced Sehn-ya Yoo-ree-nahts) was among that extraordinary outfit of Mozart performers to possess emerged in the Vienna Staatsoper soon after the finish of WW II. Also together with Schwarzkopf, Seefried, Höngen, Kunz, Schöffler, among others, the youthful artist using the glowing tone of voice and guaranteed stage manner demonstrated herself a distinctive singer, producing her tag with definitive interpretations of Cherubino and Octavian, Dorabella and Donna Elvira (the last mentioned second and then Schwarzkopf’s wonderful portrayal). She afterwards undertook even more dramatic assignments, interpreting them expertly, if occasionally sounding out of her depth vocally. non-etheless, she was among the world’s most cherished artists in the 3rd quarter from the twentieth hundred years and several of her most significant assignments are conserved on disk. The daughter of the Croatian doctor, Jurinac started her musical schooling early. Within the principal and secondary academic institutions of Zagreb, she pursued music on the Zagreb Musical Academy. After learning with Milka Kostrencic and under a week before her 21st birthday, she produced her operatic debut using the Zagreb Opera in the function of Mimì. Her achievement resulted in further leading assignments in Le nozze di Figaro and Faust aswell as supplementary, but critical, assignments in Parsifal and Das Rheingold. Over the first of Might 1945, Jurinac produced her debut using the Vienna Staatsoper in another of her signature assignments, Cherubino in Figaro. Her complete lyric soprano produced her precious for both soprano and mezzo assignments and she was designated numerous parts performed similarly well by either tone of voice category. And in addition, she was involved by Salzburg in 1947 and once again in 1948 and was well received on both events. Her La Scala debut as Cherubino also occurred in 1948. Another calendar year brought triumphs on the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino with the Edinburgh Celebration. In 1949, she also started an affiliation with England’s Glyndebourne Celebration, endearing herself towards the British public and providing them with many of her most charming Mozart interpretations. Three recordings resulted from her Glyndebourne association, recordings which still merit solid recommendations. Through the early ’50s, Jurinac started to gravitate toward tasks much less equivocal in positioning, adding the Countess to her endearing Cherubino, shifting from Dorabella to Fiordiligi and later on changing her Octavian having a poised and reflective Marschallin. She shifted from Marzelline in Fidelio to Leonore, a substantially greater leap with regards to vocal depth. The previous part was captured efficiently on disk in 1953 with Furtwängler leading the Vienna Philharmonic, while her Leonore was documented in the past due 1950s beneath the path of Hans Knappertsbusch. Also, Jurinac shifted from Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni to Donna Anna, where her brief best register was sorely taxed. Still, the tone of voice remained uniquely gorgeous even as documented under Fricsay. Jurinac’s romantic relationship with America was significantly less than lucky. Meant by Samuel Barber for the name part in his opera Vanessa, she started study from the music, but didn’t continue and was changed by Eleanor Steber. Although Steber was extremely creditable in the task, the very thought of Jurinac’s stillborn efficiency lingers like a tantalizing might-have-been. In SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, she produced her debut as Butterfly in 1959 and came back not often plenty of, finally providing the viewers there her mature, well-conceived Marschallin. Chicago noticed Jurinac in mere one part, Desdemona inside a 1963 creation of Otello.