Jochen Kowalski |

Jochen Kowalski

Sana'ar katafaren, wanda a cikin ƙarni da suka gabata ana amfani da shi kawai a cikin waƙoƙin coci, yanzu yana cikin farin ciki. Ya fara ne da gaskiyar cewa Benjamin Britten ya ƙirƙiri rawar farko a tarihin kiɗa na zamani musamman don wannan murya - ɓangaren Oberon ne a cikin opera A Midsummer Night's Dream. Duk da haka, salon da ke tattare da duk wani nau'i na masu ƙira ya haɓaka kaɗan daga baya, tare da yaduwar sahihanci a cikin wasan kwaikwayo na tsohuwar (musamman baroque). castrati ya taba yin ta. Amma a cikin karni na 20, irin wannan dabbanci kamar simintin gyare-gyare ya zama ba zai yiwu ba, kuma ana buƙatar masu adawa da sabon ƙarfinsu. Su ne suka fara rera waƙar Monteverdi da Handel, Cavalli da Gluck a ko'ina. Kuma, kodayake halayen muryar castrato da countertenor ba su yi daidai ba, duk da haka, wannan ba ya damun masu bin sahihancin kwata-kwata. Wani fanni na countertenors shine maye gurbin mezzo-soprano da contralto a cikin ayyukan travesty.

A yankin Fyodor da ke Boris Godunov ne bajamushe Johan Kowalski (b. 1983) ya fara halarta a shekara ta 1954 a dandalin Komische Oper. Wannan singer ya sami daraja a duniya bayan sanannen samar da Gluck ta "Orpheus" a cikin wannan gidan wasan kwaikwayo, wanda Harry Kupfer ya yi a watan Disamba 1987 da kuma lokacin da ya zo daidai da 200th ranar tunawa da mutuwar babban mawaki. A cikin 1989, an ƙaura wannan wasan kwaikwayon zuwa matakin Covent Garden.

Kowalski kuma ɗan wasan kwaikwayo ne wanda ba a taɓa gani ba na ɓangaren Prince Orlovsky a cikin Bat. Ta zama ya halarta a karon a Metropolitan (1995), ya akai-akai rera shi a Vienna Opera (1991-1994) da kuma sauran sinimomi. A cikin 1993, a bikin Salzburg, Kowalski ya shiga cikin kyakkyawan samarwa na Monteverdi's Coronation of Poppea ta Jurgen Flimm da Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Ottone). Sauran ayyukan sun haɗa da Julius Caesar a cikin opera na Handel mai suna iri ɗaya (1993, Schwetzingen; 1998, Berlin, da sauransu). Repertoire na countertenor kuma ya haɗa da operas na Handel Giustino da Alcina, Mozart's Mithridates, Sarkin Pontus.