Inese Galante

Inessa Galante (also: Inese Galante ) ( born March 12, 1954 in Riga, Latvia) is a Latvian soprano.

Her debut was in 1980 at the Opera House in Riga as Violetta in La Traviata. Lived until 1992, and worked in the Soviet Union. Although international in high demand, she left her home only for guest appearances or tours. In 1992, she began her first overseas engagement at the National Theatre Mannheim as Pamina in Mozart's Magic Flute. Since then, she has lived mainly in Germany, but also in Latvia. Although she appears regularly around the world since 1980 to the opera stages, there are relatively few Tonveröffentlichungen of her - so far a total of 22 CDs.

Life

Inessa Galante came as a child singing in touch: Her mother sang coloratura, her father was a bass. Despite the musical parents' house, she started after high school to study pharmacy. In this profession, she also worked a short time. But in 1977 she recorded her vocal studies at the Conservatory of Riga. Her training took over Rachel Shulova and Professor Ludmilla Brown. Already in the third year she appeared in Riga on as La Traviata. In 1982 she got a firm commitment at the Latvian National Opera Riga, where she worked until 1991. She was there to listen to, inter alia, in Rigoletto ( Gilda ), Elisir d' Amore (Adina ), The Barber of Seville ( Rosina ), Gounod 's Faust ( Marguerite ), Lucia di Lammermoor ( Lucia ), La Rondine ( Magda ) and in the roles of Olympia in tales of Hoffmann, the Snegurochka by Rimsky - Korsakov and as Micaela in Carmen.

Yehudi Menuhin and Zubin Mehta urged Galante early to continue their career in the West, but only after guest appearances at the Opera of Leningrad ( Traviata, Lucia di Lammermoor and Marguerite ), she decided in 1991 to switch to the National Theater in Mannheim. There she was in the roles of Pamina ( The Magic Flute ), Lauretta ( Gianni Schicchi / Puccini ), Nedda ( Pagliacci ), Freia ( Das Rheingold ), Mimi (La Bohème ), Zemira ( Zemira and Azor / Grétry ), Euridice ( to see Orpheus / Gluck ), Margherita ( Mefistofele / Boito ) and and as Naiad ( Ariadne auf Naxos) and listen.

At the same time she graduated from guest appearances at the opera houses of Frankfurt, Cologne and Wiesbaden. In 1996 she made ​​guest appearances at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Festival of Montpellier and at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein.

There were concerts, among others, in Moscow, Leningrad and the Baltic States as well as three tours in the U.S. and Canada already in her early career. (Toronto) on. At a concert in Rotterdam, she performed with Jose Carreras and upon invitation of the British royal family at Kensington Palace.

Her breakthrough with music recordings had Inessa Galante in 1995, when their album "Debut " in the Netherlands, the classical charts for weeks led and was honored in 2000 with platinum. The most popular and most played track on the CD was the " Ave Maria" by Giulio Caccini, making this almost forgotten Italian composer enjoyed a renaissance worldwide.

Since 1999 Inessa Galante stands at no more opera house under contract. Her performances in recent years have taken place especially in their current adopted home of Germany, the UK and the Baltic States.

Discography

  • "Songs of Amber " - Songs of Women 's Folk Chorus Dzintars (solo Inessa Galante ) - 1990
  • " Heroines " - Gounod, Cilea, Puccini - Campion Records 1995
  • " Velreiz " ( " again, encore " ) - Albinoni arias 1996
  • Maks Goldin Eighteen Jewish Folk Songs & Rachmaninov - Romantic Songs - Campion 1996
  • " Musica Sacra " - From Riga Cathedral. Paula Licite Ave Maria etc. cond. Juris Klavins (compilation of live recordings 1989-1996 ) - Campion 1997
  • "The Tchaikovsky Experience" - Sergei Leiferkus, Marina Shaguch, Alexander Fedin. Covent Garden Orchestra Conducted by Neeme Järvi, BMG 1997
  • " Latvian Sacral Music" - Inessa Galante solisti, Dita Kalniņa ( soprano ), Ingus Pētersons ( tenor ), Aivars Kalējs ( organ ), Dita Krenberga ( flute ), cond. Kaspars Putniņš - 1997
  • " La Traviata" - Verdi. (Live records Latvian National Opera in 1989.. ) - 1998
  • " Arietta " - Baroque Arias, London Musici. Conducted by M. Stephenson ( Best recording of the year 2000 as reviewed by BBC, FM classics. ) - 1999
  • "ABC ( Adagio in C minor) " - Albinoni. Conducted by Alexander Vilumanis, "Soprano arias " - Bach JS, " Amarilli mia bella" - Caccini. Conducted by Mark Stephenson ( conductor ) - 2001
  • "The Galante Choice " - 2001
  • " Galante forever ... " - 2001
  • ". Verdi Arias from Verdi 's late Galante works" - Latvian National Symphony Orchestra. Conducted by Terje Mikkelsen Campion - 2003
  • " Confesso " - Inessa Galante & Henk van Twillert ( baritone saxophone ) - 2006
  • "Requiem" - Mozart. Conducted by Andres Mustonen - 2007
  • " Stabat Mater" - Pergolesi. Stradella - Pieta Signore. Vivaldi Stabat mater. Inessa Galante, Sergei Jēgers ( alto ) chamber ensemble Conducted by Andris Veismanis - 2008
  • " Ave Maria" in Riga Cathedral - 2008
  • " GALANTE SOUL OF RIGA " ( dubbel CD) 14-07-2011
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