Edita Gruberova
Edita Gruberová (23 December 1946 – 18 October 2021) was a Slovak coloratura soprano. 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. 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. 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. In 2019, she portrayed Elisabetta in Donizetti's Roberto Devereux, who leaves her throne, concluding a stage career performing leading roles over 51 years. She is remembered as the "Slowakische Nachtigall" (Slovak Nightingale), and as prima donna assoluta. Edita Gruberová was born on 23 December 1946 in Rača, Bratislava, to a German father and a Hungarian mother. As an anti-communist, her father survived a five-year prison sentence for treason. Her father drank and she developed a close relationship with her mother. She sang in a school choir and in the children's choir of the broadcaster. 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. Gruberová began her musical studies at the Bratislava Conservatory (Konzervatórium v Bratislave),
Фильмы и сериалы
- Риголетто (1982), роль
- Don Giovanni (1987), роль
- Hänsel und Gretel (1981), роль
- Strauss: Ariadne Auf Naxos (2007), роль
- Die Zauberflöte (1983), роль
- Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1980), роль
- La Traviata (1993), роль
- Beatrice di Tenda (2002), роль
- Cosi Fan Tutte (1989), роль
- Die Zauberflöte (1982), роль
- Norma (2007), роль
- Manon (1983), роль
- Verdi La Traviata (1992), роль
- Lucrezia Borgia (2009), роль
- Roberto Devereux (2005), роль
- Linda di Chamounix (1996), роль
- I Puritani (2011), роль
- Strauss: Die Fledermaus (1980), роль
- The Art of Belcanto (2009), роль
- A Christmas Celebration: Send Round the Song (1992), роль