Mozart Masterclass Roberta Alexander - Elenora Hu, soprano
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ม.ค. 2021
- The International Vocal Competition’s “Mozart masterclass and More” course week reached its conclusion on 3rd December 2020. Under the motto ‘The world keeps on singing’, eight talented young singers worked intensively with the masters Vesselina Kasarova, Roberta Alexander and Thomas Oliemans on Mozart repertoire. In addition to the master classes, the participants also had online discussions with leading international professionals and the Presentation Concert on the programme.
"Mozart masterclass and more" was set up to provide a stage for young singing talent after the 54th edition of the International Vocal Competition had to be moved to 2022 due to COVID-19. General Director of the IVC Ivan van Kalmthout is delighted that the masterclasses have continued. “Our mission is to give young singing talent the opportunity to develop. The sharing of knowledge by the masters is essential for these vocalists. Just like performances: gaining experience is important for their young careers.”
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Elenora Hu, Soprano
Netherlands (*1995)
www.elenora-hu.nl
Is studying with soprano Dobrinka Yankova at Utrecht Conservatoire and with IVC winner Nelly Miricioiu - Bachelor of English Language and Culture at Leiden University - Debuted as La contessa di Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro conducted by Leonardo Catalanotto - Award winner of the Virginia Zeani Royal Voice Competition - Received the Audience Award during the Grachtenfestival Conservatoire Competition - Participated in the IVC Summer School Bel Canto in 2019.
Course repertoire:
· Quando avran fine omai...Padre, germani, addio! (Ilia) - Idomeneo
· Solitudini amiche... Zeffiretti lusinghieri (Ilia) - Idomeneo
· Porgi, amor, qualche ristoro (Contessa Alamaviva)- Le nozze di Figaro
· Ei parte... Per pietà, ben mio, perdona (Fiordiligi) - Così fan tutte
· Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio - K. 418
· Ah! guarda sorella (Fiordiligi, Dorabella) - Così fan tutte
Pianist: Ernst Munneke
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Roberta Alexander, Soprano
Among the most compelling singing actresses of our time, the admired black American soprano, Roberta Alexander, enjoys international renown for her riveting, incisive characterizations, miraculous vocal and dramatic range. She was reared in a musical family. She studied at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor from 1969 to 1971, receiving M. Music in 1971, and with Herman Woltman at the Royal Conservatory of Music at The Hague.
Roberta Alexander appeared as Pamina at the Houston Grand Opera in 1980, as Daphne in Santa Fe in 1981, and as Elettra in Idomeneo in Zürich in 1982. Following a tour of Europe, she made a successful debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York as Zerlina in November 1983. Among the operatic heroines she has unforgettably portrayed are the title role of Janacek's Jenufa (a Glyndebourne production), Mimì in Puccini's La Bohème, and especially the great Mozart heroines: Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni and Vitellia in Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito, the latter a major success with both the public and the press at the Glyndebourne Festival. In addition she has performed principal roles at New York's Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House/Covent Garden, and the major Houses of Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna, Zurich and Venice. In January 1999, Roberta Alexander sang concert performances of Jenufa, Act 2 with Sir Simon Rattle and the Philadelphia Orchestra, in Philadelphia and at New York's Carnegie Hall. Other recent North American highlights includes a Washington, D.C. recital on the distinguished Vocal Arts Society series and Britten's War Requiem with the Utah Symphony under its Music Director Keith Lockhart, both receiving rapturous critical acclaim.
Equally esteemed as an orchestral soloist, Roberta Alexander recently enjoyed particular success performing Ravel's Shéhérazade with André Previn and the NDR Sinfonieorchester, telecast throughout Europe. She has also performed with the Vienna, London and Royal Philharmonics; Royal Concertgebouw, Philadelphia, Cleveland and Bavarian Radio Orchestras; Cincinnati, Atlanta and Dallas Symphonies; and collaborated with such distinguished conductors as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Andrew Litton, Bernard Haitink, Sir Colin Davis, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Carlo Maria Giulini, Leonard Slatkin, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Edo De Waart and David Zinman.
Roberta Alexander's voluminous discography on the Etcetera, Philips, Sony, Teldec and BMG reflects her astonishing mastery of varied vocal styles: songs by Barber, Mozart, Bernstein, Ives, Copland, Strauss, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Puccini and Villa-Lobos; Handel's Giulio Cesare, Apollo e Daphne, Samson and Theodora; Mozart's Don Giovanni and Idomeneo; and such rarities as Goldschmidt's Der Gewaltige Hahnrei and Beatrice Cenci, Heppener's Four Songs of Ezra Pound and an Edison-winning recording of Andriessen's Songs with Orchestra. - เพลง
What a lovely instrument Ms. Hu possesses.
How fortunate to study with Roberta Alexander. How fortunate to have such a student. Enormous talent. Mozart is very happy.
A great diva meets a promising diva to be… I love them both❤
The low note at the end and the jump is just stunning!!!
Roberta Alexander. God, I love this woman. I've been listening to her recitals on Etcetera for the longest time-and there are so many of them: Bernstein, Ives, Mozart, Barber (a Knoxville that stands up to the best of them!), Strauss, even a Broadway album with loads of Wilder, Sondheim, and Kander/Ebb. And then there is that Met broadcast of Porgy and Bess with Simon Estes. She really ought to be more famous than she already is. To see her now in a teaching role, so precise, so supportive, so effective-it all just makes me love her more. May she find success in everything else she takes on in her career.
Excellente technique ! Magnifique interprétation.. que de talents...et en prime la si belle sonorité d un piano Fiazoli.
Hâte d entende cette incroyable artiste sur scène.
Good voice teacher!!!!!
ELENORA BELLA VOCE
So the first time I heard Elenora was when she participated in a Dutch vocal competition (Aria) against 9 competitors. From the beginning I fell in love with her eagerness to bring a great performance, both vocally and on the acting side of opera.
Now I watched this masterclass (and I love watching/listening to this kind of live studying) and once again I am amazed by how she picks up the things Roberta is commenting on.
Hopefully she will get great roles in opera's because I think she deserves it.
Gorgeous full lyric coloratura. When she controls her breath back a bit and leans into her soft palate the sound is wonderful. A feminine and vibrantly assertive.
Roberta sounds like Denyce graves
She's destroying her voice. She'll have nodes within ten years, guaranteed, if she keeps singing that way.
Singing which way? She is classically schooled.
Definitely not the rep for her 😭
@@Yoavmw Then what is the rep for her?
@@marilon I would assume more lyric. Not high Coloratura stuff. Regardless to the repertoire she sings definitely needs to learn how to sing to cross the passagio
@@marilon absolutly right. This is thé right Way for singing BelCanto and her voice and mindset are stunning. Splendid vibrato and breathing with appogio. She will be a splendid soprano on this futur and she has already vidéos on YT.
Not a healthy sound-too spread at top with a strange vibrato. Maybe she should sing a non Mozart fuller piece.