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| Who | Barocco sempre giovane Barbora Perná (L’Amour / Eurydice) soprano Bella Adamova (Orphée) mezzo |
| Where | The Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary, Břeclav–Poštorná |
| Program | Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787) Orphée et Eurydice, Wq. 41 (French version, Parsi 1774; shortened concert arrangement) Dress code: Semi-Formal |
In the church in Poštorná, Orpheus (Bella Adamova) sets out to find his beloved Eurydice (Barbora Perná) in the French version of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s famous reform opera. Their concert journey will be accompanied by Barocco sempre giovane.
Czech chamber ensemble Barocco sempre giovane was founded in 2004 and is made up of outstanding young professional musicians. Originally, it specialised in the interpretation of High Baroque compositions (hence the ensemble’s name), but today its repertoire includes works from all stylistic periods, including 21st century music. It has also premiered several compositions by contemporary authors.
Barocco sempre giovane is invited to perform at major music festivals both in the Czech Republic and abroad; its concerts have been broadcast on television and radio, it records CDs, and organises its own subscription concert series.
Barocco sempre giovane collaborates with leading Czech and international artists. It pays special attention to working with young performers who are laureates of major international competitions, particularly winners of Prague Spring Competition, Fritz Kreisler Competition in Vienna, Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels and Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
She studied at the Prague Conservatory under Jiřina Marková Krystlíková and then at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in the class of Prof. Magdalena Hajoossiová. She further expanded her education by participating in courses in Riva del Garda and under the guidance of tenor Josè Cura.
Since 2006, she has performed as a guest artist at many Czech theatres (Antonín Dvořák Theatre in Ostrava, J. K. Tyl Theatre in Plzeň, F. X. Šalda Theatre in Liberec, Silesian Theatre in Opava, etc.). Since 2019, she has been a member of the soloist ensemble of the Moravian Theatre in Olomouc, where she is now a guest artist. Here, she received a broad nomination for the Thalia Award for her performances as Fiordiligi and Rusalka.
She has played a number of beautiful roles, including Rusalka from the opera of the same name by A. Dvořák, Jenůfa and Liška Bystrouška by L. Janáček, Mařenka from The Bartered Bride by B. Smetana, Dvořák’s Terinka, Massenet’s Sophie, Weber’s Agata, Mozart’s Fiordiligi, Pamina, and Zerlina, Leoncavallo’s Nedda, Wagner’s Laura, Rachmaninoff’s Zemfira, Beethoven’s Leonora/Fidelio, and others.
She won the 2018 Jantar Award for her role as Rusalka and received the Opava Thalia Award in the same year. She is a laureate of many prestigious competitions, such as the Imrich Godin Competition in Vráble, Slovakia, and the Antonín Dvořák International Singing Competition.
She has performed in Germany, Italy, France, Austria, Japan, and China.
Barbora Perná is currently a soloist at the National Theatre in Prague, where you can hear her in The Magic Flute, The Marriage of Figaro, Puccini’s La Bohème, and Wagner’s Parsifal.
Mezzo-soprano Bella Adamova moves with natural ease through different musical periods, genres, and cultures, but the focus of her artistic interest is song. Her repertoire ranges from Baroque compositions to contemporary works and includes German songs and Russian romances. With her deeply and thoughtfully crafted song recitals, she has performed at major venues and festivals such as Prague Spring, Heidelberger Frühling, St. Wenceslas Music Festival (SHF), Lednice-Valtice Music Festival, Music is… festival and Villa Senar, Sergei Rachmaninoff’s residence in Switzerland.
Bella Adamova has won many awards at prestigious international singing competitions. Together with pianist Malte Schäfer, they are laureates of the Franz Schubert and Modern Music International Competition in Graz in the “song duo” category, and in 2022 she won the main prize in the oratorio category at the international singing competition in ‘s-Hertogenbosch. She is also a sought-after opera singer.
Bella sings and improvises in a duo with pianist Michael Gees, with whom she released her first joint album, Blooming, in 2019. Their second CD, entitled “There is home” (2023), offers an unconventional concept in which songs by Pavel Haas, Benjamin Britten, Gustav Mahler, and Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky are freely interwoven and organically interspersed with improvisations on selected poems.
