Irena Troupová (Irena Troupova-Wilke[1]) is a Czech soprano and early music specialist.
Biography
editTroupová studied singing with Terezie Blumová.[2] She regularly performs in the Berlin State Opera, Berlin Symphony Orchestra and others.[3] A 2023 publication stated that "the well-known soprano Irena Troupová who, after a period of interpreting Baroque music, has been focusing on 20th-century music in recent years."[4]
Troupová's double CD recording, Schwer ist’s, das Schöne zu lassen, features music written by composers who were interned at the Theresienstadt Ghetto in Terezín as part of the Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia during World War II.[4]
Discography
editReferences
edit- ^ Fialová, Jana. "Hudební tradice českých Vánoc". Czech Republic - Official website. Retrieved 2009-10-07. [dead link] (in Czech)
- ^ Bakla, Petr, ed. (December 2018). "IRENA TROUPOVÁ and her musical curiosity" (PDF). Czech Music Quarterly. Czech Music Information Centre, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.
- ^ "Irena Troupová" (in Czech). Collegium Musicum Brno. Archived from the original on 2011-07-08. Retrieved 2009-10-07.
- ^ a b Jurková, Zuzana (2023). ""Music kept us alive": The dynamic of majority–minority recollections and musical remembrance of Terezín" (PDF). Puls: Journal for Ethnomusicology and Ethnochoreology. 8: 52.
- ^ http://www.hbdirect.com/album_detail.php?pid=179742[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Schütz, Praetorius, Schein, etc: Funeral Mus - HBDirect Classical". Archived from the original on 2011-09-29. Retrieved 2009-10-07.