Jochen Kowalski |

Jochen Kowalski

Luso la kauntala, lomwe m'zaka mazana apitalo linkangogwiritsidwa ntchito m'nyimbo za tchalitchi, tsopano ndilopambana. Zonse zinayamba ndi mfundo yakuti Benjamin Britten adapanga gawo loyamba m'mbiri yamakono yoimba makamaka pa mawu awa - inali gawo la Oberon mu opera A Midsummer Night's Dream. Komabe, mafashoni ophatikizana onse otsutsana nawo adayamba pang'ono pang'ono, ndikufalikira kwa zowona pakuchita kwa nyimbo zakale (makamaka baroque). Nthawi ina idachitidwa ndi castrati. Koma m’zaka za m’ma 20, nkhanza zotere monga kuthena zinakhala zosatheka, ndipo anthu olimbana nawo anayamba kufunidwa m’malo awo atsopano. Ndi iwo amene anayamba kuimba nyimbo Monteverdi ndi Handel, Cavalli ndi Gluck kulikonse. Ndipo, ngakhale mawonekedwe a mawu a castrato ndi countertenor samafanana, komabe, izi sizikuvutitsa omwe amatsatira kutsimikizika konse. Gawo lina la ma countertenors ndikulowa m'malo mwa mezzo-soprano ndi contralto m'malo a travesty.

Zinali mu travesty gawo la Fyodor ku Boris Godunov kuti German Johan Kowalski (b. 1983) anapanga kuwonekera koyamba kugulu lake mu 1954 pa siteji ya Komische Oper. Woimbayo adatchuka padziko lonse lapansi pambuyo pakupanga kodziwika bwino kwa Gluck's "Orpheus" m'bwalo lamasewera lomwelo, lomwe Harry Kupfer adachita mu December 1987 ndi nthawi yofanana ndi chikumbutso cha 200 cha imfa ya woimba wamkulu. Mu 1989, seweroli lidasamukira ku gawo la Covent Garden.

Kowalski nayenso ndi wosewera wosayerekezeka wa gawo la Prince Orlovsky mu The Bat. Anakhala kuwonekera kwake ku Metropolitan (1995), adayimba mobwerezabwereza ku Vienna Opera (1991-1994) ndi zisudzo zina. Mu 1993, pa Chikondwerero cha Salzburg, Kowalski adagwira nawo ntchito yojambula bwino kwambiri ya Monteverdi The Coronation of Poppea yolembedwa ndi Jurgen Flimm ndi Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Ottone). Maudindo ena akuphatikizapo Julius Caesar mu opera ya Handel ya dzina lomwelo (1993, Schwetzingen; 1998, Berlin, etc.). Nyimbo za countertenor zikuphatikizanso masewera a Handel Giustino ndi Alcina, Mithridates wa Mozart, Mfumu ya Ponto.