Sena Jurinac
Srebrenka "Sena" Jurinac ([juˈrinats] (24 October 1921 – 22 November 2011) was a Bosnia-born Croatian-Austrian operatic soprano.
Biography
Jurinac was born in Travnik, Bosnia-Herzegovina (then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia), the daughter of a Croatian father and doctor, and a Viennese mother.
She studied at the Zagreb Academy of Music, and with Milka Kostrenčić. Her voice was pitched exactly between soprano and mezzo. Her repertoire included Poppea, Elisabetta (Don Carlos), Desdemona (Otello), Elisabeth (Tannhäuser), Ilia, Iphigenia, Jenůfa, Leonora (La forza del destino), the Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos), Marie (Wozzeck), Pamina (The Magic Flute), Mimi, Butterfly and Tosca. In many operas, her repertoire included more than one major role: Cherubino and Countess Almaviva, Donna Anna and Donna Elvira, Fiordiligi and Dorabella, Amor and Eurydice, Leonore and Marzelline (Fidelio), Marina and Fyodor (Boris Godunov); Octavian, occasionally Sophie and finally the Marschallin. She also played supporting roles in The Ring of the Nibelung: Woglinde, Gutrune and several of the Norns.
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ALBUMS
- Orfeo ed Euridice released: 2009
Orfeo ed Euridice
Released 2009- Orfeo ed Euridice: Akt I. "Ah! se intorno a quest'urna funesta" (Chor, Orfeo)
- Orfeo ed Euridice: Akt I. Rezitativ "Amici, quellamento" (Orfeo)
- Orfeo ed Euridice: Akt I. Pantomime
- Orfeo ed Euridice: Akt I. "Ah! se intorno a quest'urna funesta" (Chor)
- Orfeo ed Euridice: Akt I. Rezitativ "Restar vuol' io" - Ritornello (Orfeo)
- Orfeo ed Euridice: Akt I. Arie "Chiamo il mio ben cosi" (Orfeo)
- Orfeo ed Euridice: Akt I. Rezitativ "O numi, barbari numi" (Orfeo, Amor)
- Orfeo ed Euridice: Akt I. Arie "Se dolci suon" (Amor) - Szene "Ciel, lei riveder potrö" (Amor, Orfeo)
- Orfeo ed Euridice: Akt I. Arie "Gli sguardi trattieni" (Amor)
- Orfeo ed Euridice: Akt I. Rezitativ "Che disse? ehe ascoltai?" (Orfeo)
- Orfeo ed Euridice: Akt II. Tanz der Furien
- Orfeo ed Euridice: Akt II. "Chi mai dell'Erebo" (Chor) - Tanz der Furien - "Deh placatevi con me" (Orfeo, Chor)
- Orfeo ed Euridice: Akt II. "Misero giovane" (Chor der Furien)
- Orfeo ed Euridice: Akt II. Arie "Mille pene, ombre sdegnose" (Orfeo) - "Ah, quale incognito" (Chor der Furien) - Arie "Men tiranne voi sareste" (Orfeo) - "Ah, quale incognito" (Chor)
- Orfeo ed Euridice: Akt II. Tanz der Furien
- Orfeo ed Euridice: Akt II. Reigen der seligen Geister
- Orfeo ed Euridice: Akt II. Ballett
- Orfeo ed Euridice: Akt II. Reigen der seligen Geister
- Orfeo ed Euridice: Akt II. Arie und Chor "E quest'asilo ameno" (Euridice, Chor)
- Orfeo ed Euridice: Akt II. Arie "Che puro ciel, che chiaro sol" (Orfeo)
- Orfeo ed Euridice: Akt II. Rezitativ "Oh voi, ombre felici" (Orfeo)
- Orfeo ed Euridice: Akt II. Reigen seliger Geister "Torna, o bella, al tuo consorte"
Born: 1921-10-24
Died: 2011-11-22
