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German singer and opera singer
- coloratura soprano
- Germany, German Democratic Republic
- opera singer
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2017-03-31 23:39:52
[…] at the moment, they leave no trace of anger in my heart against you.” In response to another letter from her shortly afterward he wrote: “And it must be by a miracle indeed if I should have forgotten the best, the deepest relation of all, that, namely, to thee…But I freely confess that the manner in which you have treated me hitherto is not to be endured…” That year Goethe met a young woman, Christiane Vulpius, who became his mistress. For 13 years Charlotte had ben his Romantic ideal, a kindred spirit and a muse. But she could not forgive him. She rejected his offers of friendship, and ridiculed him in public. Christiane, by contrast, was loving and affectionate. She remained loyal to Goethe for 18 years–and bore him several children–before they finally got married in 1806. Charlotte, some 13 years after the rift with Goethe, confessed her continued love […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-12-21 04:43:11
[…] Christmas tunes by Michael Praetorius featured, most notably the jaunty performance by the entire ensemble—voices and instruments—of his take on Nicolai’s Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern. The group took advantage of it in other works, too, leading to some startlingly lovely combinations: Arnold Schlick’s three-part Maria zart was given gentle intimacy by tenor Daniel Hershey, recorder player Steven Lundahl, and lutenist Nathaniel Cox; and the four-part version of Es ist ein Ros entsprungen by Melchior Vulpius arrived in a stunning fashion from sopranos Camila Parias, Anne Azéma, and Deborah Rentz-Moore, along with Lundahl on the tenor recorder, epitomizing the “crystalline purity” of the music described in the printed notes. Instrumental texture was just one part of the story, though. The show opened with bass John Taylor Ward’s confident solo rendition of a 15th-century liturgical word-game song, after which much of the audience clapped. Then Parias, Azéma, and Rentz-Moore sang a […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2016-11-24 11:22:25
The coloratura soprano Jutta Vulpius made her debut with Walter Felsenstein’s Komische Oper in 1954 and went on to sing for 35 years at the Staatsoper on Under den Linden. Abroad, she guested in Moscow, Prague, Rome, Lisbon, Barcelona, Munich and Hamburg. From 1954 to 1956 she sang at Bayreuth as a Flower Maiden in Parsifal and as Woglinde in the Ring. In Berlin, she was in the cast of the world premiere of the anti-US opera, Joe Hill, by the British Communist composer Alan Bush.
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2014-12-19 22:46:16
A Bach Christmas? Bah, Humbug!
[…] as in Victoria’s five-part “Alma redemptoris mater,” Jarrett’s dynamic shaping of the lines was worked out in an almost orchestral manner. Yet, perhaps because of the size of the group, I didn’t sense the care for the rhetoric of individual words and phrases that has become a hallmark of more historically oriented vocal ensembles. Intimate little numbers such as Schütz’s “spiritual madrigal” “Ach, Herr, du Schöpfer” and Praetorius’s setting of “Es ist en Ros” (by Vulpius) were probably intended for ensembles of four or five singers, with continuo. In my view they don’t benefit from “a cappella” performance by a chorus of seventeen, even one such as H & H’s, performing as usual with nearly impeccable intonation and breath control. The Schütz piece, incidentally, is the composer’s sacred recasting of the first work in Marenzio’s seventh book of five-part madrigals. There, in a curious reflection of the program’s pastoral theme, […]
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