Martina Janková
Biography
My Source of Music
“I always stop to listen to a blackbird singing on a tree branch: the urgent joy of its song moves me deeply. As a child I sang constantly, it just bubbled up from inside me. Even today I can tap into this well of music, as I strive for the authenticity of feeling I knew during my childhood.”
Ein persönliches Interview
Das persönliche Interview mit Radio Klassik 2019 Wien.
Così fan tutte – Salzburger Festspiele
G.F.Händel, La Scala Milano
Le nozze di Figaro, Salzburger Festspiele
Cosi fan tutte, Salzburger Festspiele
La fedeltà premiata, Zürich, J. Haydn
G.F.Händel, La Scala Milano
The Cleveland Orchestra, F. Welser-Möst
King Arthur, Theater an der Wien 2019
King Arthur, Theater an der Wien 2019
The Swiss Soprano
Martina Janková, a Swiss soprano with Czech roots, is an internationally famous interpreter of Mozart and Baroque music. She was enthusiastically received as Susanna and Despina in the Mozart/Da Ponte cycles at the Zurich Opera House under Franz Welser-Most and at the Salzburg Festival (2013-2016). Her début role at La Scala Milano in 2016 was Bellezza in Handel's il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno. She toured Europe with Les Arts Florissants under William Christie, as well as at the Lucerne Festival, in the title role of Mozart's IL RE Pastore. In May 2017 she gave her début as Mélisande in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande with Cleveland Orchestras under Franz Welser-Möst.
Resurrection after 200 years, Helsinki 2018
A great success for Janková was a leading role in the opera Gustav Vasa. Kozeluh‘s only surviving opera, resurrected two centuries after the composer‘s death! The czech-born composer Leopold Kozeluh was a significant competitor of Mozart, and among their contemporaries, even more acknowledged of these two.
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Over the course of many years she collaborated with the legendary conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt, who repeatedly engaged her for important opera and oratorios performances.
Signature role
One of Martina Janková's signature roles is the Vixen in Janáček's Cunning Little Vixen, which she sang to great acclaim in Geneva, Zurich, and Cleveland, and which she performed 2017 on a European tour under Franz Welser-Möst in Vienna and Luxembourg, aswell with the Symphony Orchestra of Bavarian Broadcast Munich under Welser-Möst.
Important roles
Among the opera roles which Martina Janková has sung in Paris, Prague, Zurich, Geneva, and Vienna, are Mozart's Pamina/Zauberflöte, Rosina/La Finta Semplice, Serpetta/La Finta Giardiniera, Madame Silberklang/Der Schauspieldirektor, Celia/Lucia Silla, Ilia/Idomeno, Haydn's Celia/La Fedelta Premiata, Humperdinck's Gretel/Hänsel und Gretel, Verdi's Nannetta/Falstaff, Handel's Angelica/Orlando, Beethoven's Marzelline/Fidelio and Leonore-Version, Monteverdi's Drusilla, Giunone, and Fortuna/Il Ritorno D'ulisse, L'incoronazione di Poppea, and Rossini's Sophia/IL Signor Bruschino.
Concert Singer
In addition to her work in opera, Martina Janková is a much sought-after concert singer. She has performed under conductors such as Jiri Belohlávek, Ivor Bolton, Bertrand de Billy, Riccardo Chailly, Iván Fischer, Ádám Fischer, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Danielle Gatti, Philippe Herreweghe, Marek Janowski, Václav Luks, Sir Charles Mackerras, Andrea Marcon, Sir Neville Marriner, Ingo Metzmacher, Trevor Pinnock, Sir Simon Rattle and Wolfgang Sawallisch, and with orchestras such as the Berlin and Munich Philharmonic Orchestras, the Czech Philharmonic, the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Champs-Elysées, the Israel Philharmonic, and the Cleveland Orchestra.
Lied-Recitals
Martina Janková has sung Lied-Recitals in London's Wigmore Hall, at the Festival “Prague Spring”, the Rheingau Festival, the Festival Styriarte in Graz, and the Salzburg Festival.
Recordings
Numerous CD's and DVD's document the artistry of Martina Janková. The most recent are: Moravian Folksongs with 51 rare songs by Leoš Janáček; Bach Kantaten with the Collegium 1704 under Václav Luks; and Le Nozze Di Figaro from the Salzburg Festival 2015 with Martina Janková as Susanna.
