Martina Janková
Biography
My Source of Music
“I enjoy listening to the blackbird sitting on a tree: It is the urgency of its singing which I deeply sympathize with. As a child I also sang without ceasing because it simply came out of my soul. To this day I feed from this source of music and strive for the authenticity which I know from 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
J. Haydn: La fedeltà premiata, Zürich
G.F.Händel, La Scala Milano
The Cleveland Orchestra, F. Welser-Möst
H.Purcell, King Arthur, Theater an der Wien
H.Purcell, King Arthur, Theater an der Wien
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, and she had appeared here also in Mendelssohn Symphony Nr.2. 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.
A Premiere 200 years later, Helsinki 2018
The leading role in the opera Gustav Vasa became a great success for Jankova. Kozeluh‘s only opera that survived to present days, was revived two centuries after the composer‘s death. The Czech-born composer Leopold Kozeluh was a significant competitor of Mozart, and was the even more acknowledged one among their contemporaries.
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.
H.Purcell: Fairy Queen, Styriarte Festival, M. Jankova with N.Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus und Arnold Schönberg Chor.
In 2019 she renewed her collaboration with N. Harnoncourt‘s Concentus Musicus under the musical direction of Stefan Gottfried, in a production of Henrey Purcell’s King Arthur at the Theater an der Wien.
Signature role
One of Martina Jankova‘s signature roles is the Vixen in Janacek‘s Cunning Little Vixen, which she sang to great acclaim in Geneva, Zurich, and Cleveland. The unique performance of the Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst guested in October 2017 on a European tour in Vienna and Luxembourg with enormous success. In 2018, Welser-Möst conducted this opera in the concert with Martina Jankova and the Bavarian Radio Orchestra in Munich.
Significant opera 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.
Not only the opera stage
In addition to her work in opera, Martina Janková is a much sought-after concert singer. She has performed with 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, Franz Welser-Möst 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 Jankova 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 M.Jankova. Her newest CD with Songs of B.Martinu (released by Supraphon February 8th 2019), was awarded the „Diapason d‘Or 2019“, as was her previous CD „Prague -Vienna“ (Diapason d‘Or 2017). Further examples are Moravian Folkssongs 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.
