Jan Rubes
January Rubes (actually Jan Ladislav Rubeš, born June 6, 1920 in Volyně, Czechoslovakia, † June 29, 2009 in Toronto, Canada ) was a Czechoslovak- Canadian opera singer in the bass and voice actor.
Life
Rubes made his stage debut in 1940 in Prague as Basilio in The Barber of Seville and remained the leading bass singer of the Opera until his emigration in 1948. During the same year he had represented as winners his country successfully at the International Music Festival in Geneva.
In 1949, he was - at that time a member of the Royal Conservatory Opera - co-founder of the Canadian Opera Company and belonged to her as a performer and 1989 at over 1000 performances on. From 1974 to 1976 he was the tour director of the COC. Rubes sang games in six languages and became a permanent member of the ensemble of the Opera Festival Company, from which the COC was born. As a solo singer, he gave concerts in Canada and New York, in Frankfurt and in Central America.
In 1953, he was next to Glenn Gould part of the first CBC television show ever. Nationally, he was known as the host of the weekly radio show, The Songs of My People, which was sent for the first time in the same year and aired ten years. From 1975 to 1983 he presented the TV show Guess What.
In the 1960s, Rubes began with appearances as an actor in television series, which he turned more and more into the focus of its work in the following decades. Overall, he starred in more than 40 productions, including feature films, with. In 1995 he first appeared on Broadway.
In addition, Rubes taught at universities. Rubes was married to Susan Douglas, with whom he had three sons.
Awards
Repertoire (selection)
- Mephisto in Faust
- Bluebeard in Bluebeard's Castle
- Boris Boris Godunov in
- Daland in The Flying Dutchman
- Figaro and Bartolo in The Marriage of Figaro.