The Great Slovak Cantatrier died on October 18 in Zurich (Switzerland) at the age of 74. Queen Of Unforgettable Night, Best Zerbinette Of All Times, Lucia di Lammermoor Without Rivale, Soprano Color shows many recordings.
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It possessed everything, the power, fire, technical perfection, a stamp of an exceptional density, an incomparable agility in the extreme-treble (up to the ground in its great period) which made it the Great soprano Coloring of its generation: Edita Grububa, died in Zurich on October 18th, at the age of 74. In fifty years of a career on the largest international scenes, the Slovakian cantatrix will be illustrated in Mozart, of which she was a Queen of the Night of Anthology (an interpreted role 148 times, 70 of whom in the Staatsoper of Vienna), in Richard Strauss, of which she remains “the” Zerbinette d’Ariane in Naxos, but also in the Verdien repertoire – a traviata all at once aerial and lyrical – and to the shores of beautiful canto (she will embody a Flamboyant Lucia di Lammermoor).
Born on December 23, 1946 in Bratislava, then in Czechoslovakia, Edita Grububa who sings in a children’s choir from 1959 is initiated at 15 by the pastor of the Protestant Church of Raca, Dr. Julius Janko, at the piano and singing. The teaching continues at the conservatory of his hometown where she works with Maria Medvecka, who introduces him to the role of the Queen of the Night. She then incorporates the Bratislava Performing Arts Academy. Edita Grububa, singing within the Folk Ensemble Lucnica while performing at the Slovak National Theater where she debuted in February 1968 in Rosina of the Barbier de Seville, Rossini. It was during this period that she won the third prize of a singing contest in Toulouse before being engaged in December at Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, Traviata. It will remain there for two years, addressing the four feminine roles of the Hoffmann, Offenbach tales, and Gilda’s in the Rigoletto, Verdi.
Queen in the West
In 1970, his first Queen of the night at Wiener Staatsoper is a triumph: which became Queen in the West, Edita Gruberova exolded in 1971, fleeing the communist Czechoslovakia. She will come back only in 1979, during a tour with the Opera de Vienne. It is also in this role that it conquers the Glyndebourne Festival in 1973 and then the Salzburg Festival in 1974 under the direction of Herbert von Karajan, before the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1977. A Queen of the Night. It will record three times in Studio: Under the direction of Alain Lombard (Barclay), Bernard Haitink (Emi-Warner Classics), Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Teldec-Warner Classics).
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