“Vincerò!” It explodes in the force Calaf in “Turandot” at the end of the area “Nessun Dorma”. It was like a symbol of the life and career of Ioan Holender launched at the June 18, exhibited at a time of the Voice of Tenor Daniel Magdal.
Ioan Holender. Photo Andrei Grigore/Bucharest National Opera
For Ioan Holender the future time of Calaf's exhortation is also the glorious present, because the illustrious director of the Vienna State Opera, the longest in the history of the scene on the ring, is already a great winner. He conquered the world lyrical world through artistic and impresario management, conquered the time, conquered the hearts of artists and the public by the intelligent and professional way in which he led for almost two decades one of the great temples of the opera show, conquered the famous Viennese Philharmonist, who forms the Orchestra of the State Opera. He conquered the Austrian governors who extended them, regardless of their political color, the mandates, conquered infinite world recognitions and homage appreciation, conquered readers and audiences who appreciated the verticality of life and activity.
For us, the Romanians, is a prodius (cited
Emil Hurezeanu), remaining one of the cultural personalities of great vase in history. Not only by the few written above or because he was the director of the George Enescu festival, increasing his rank and popularity, but also because he carefully, with indulgence, firmly the post-December national cultural development in his native country that he does not really forget. A tip from Ioan Holender has always been of value and worth following. A support from Ioan Holender was salutary, as he said in his short speech speech Daniel Jinga, the general director of the Bucharest National Opera, who confessed the gratitude and expressed thanks for bringing to the distributions of the Splai theater of some great names of the world lyric.
Shortly before, conductor Daniel Jinga had opened in the evening at the desk of the Opera Orchestra with the prelude of the first act of “Traviata”. The Verdian pages have now resonated as a sweet and nostalgic memory, a melancholy that-I am convinced-Ioan Holender tried and felt it in those moments, the verva of the few measures Allegro Brillantissimo added to the prelude from the introduction to the Violetta ball by signifying the bright perspective of the future of the celebrated. Plus, the “traviata” was the “microbe” that made him get to the opera in adolescence.
Under these signs and having as a moderator the cultural journalist Marius Constantinescu, a three-hour evening, which passed on the senses. Because Ioan Holender is an interlocutor of charm, subtle humor, a huge source of non -memories. Words and space are not enough to describe what puzzle The years traveled on the Timișoara – Vienna – Bucharest, from Vatman, student at Polytechnic, represented coach of tennis, revolutionary, emigrant, again student (singing), technical designer, opera soloist, director assistant, impresario, secretary general and then director of Wiener Staatsoper (initially, concomitant with Volksooper Wien), honorary director of the George Enescu festival, consultant at the metropolitan opera, at the Spring Festival in Tokyo, Author of Tokyo. Memories, producer of TV shows, a member of the juries of large international singing competitions and the line will continue in the future, I am sure.
On a large background of the scene of the Bucharest National Opera, there were short musical moments with a minimum selection of favorite artists, Petre Ștefănescu-Goang (“big, full, emotional voice”, said Holender), George Corbeni (“as if I see you, virgin” from “Rigoletto” The celebration stated that it favored in Timișoara the understanding of the spirit of the lyrical theater), Ludovic Spiess (“E Lucevan Le Stelle” from “Tosca”) that he called as “the most important lever that launched as an entrepreneur”, which he has carried out for 22 years. He also mentioned Ileana Cotrubaș, David Ohanesian, Marina Krilovici …
Then I saw Natalie Desay on the screen (with an incredible over-acute natural soil in the area of Olympia from “Hoffmann's stories” directed by Andrei Șerban), I followed a passage from “Oedipe” (Vienna-Berlin co-production signed by Götz Friedrich, great success of criticism), I admired Anna Nerebko Singing a fragment from Manon's area “Je suis encore toutourdie” in the homonymous work of Massenet, in a carriage whose visit was … Ioan Holender costumed as such), I listened to the applause and the word of goodbye at the end gala of the director of Staatsoper. There was no lack of a fragment of an episode of the series “Kultour Mit Holender” filmed by Austrian television at Peleș Castle.
For me, the surprise was the lied “Dombie” by Respighi sung by the baritone Ioan Holender. For the first time I heard the voice of great homogeneity on the ambition to Fa Diez high, with beautiful stambraity, I noticed his artistic sense of atmosphere. The fact that he studied singing in Timisoara, then in Vienna, that he was employed at the Opera in Klagenfurt, that he sang for example “traviata” and “Carmen” in Timisoara served, undoubtedly, to form the knowledge about vocality and technique, style and roles, about the psychology of the singers, Inherent pride, to be an entrepreneurial agent and especially the director of the great theater, which he led alone, with great professional authority.
Fragments were presented from a documentary made by Brândușa Armanca, from interviews taken by Luminița Constantinescu, Iosif Sava, Dinu Săraru, Eugenia Voda, Oana Drăgulinescu.
Elogious words spoke on stage invitations of the evening, foreign minister Emil Hurezeanu, general director of the “George Enescu” Philharmonic Marin Cazacu, chief editor of “Dilema Veche” Sever Voinescu, entrepreneur Marian Alecu, TV producer Brândușa Armanca.
The artistic part was supported by the sopranos Anita Hartig (the area “in quelle trrine morbide” from “Manon Lescaut”) and Iulia Isaev (the “ebben! Ne andrò lontana” in “La Wally”), the mezzo-soprano Ramona Zaharia (the “Mon Coeur S'Oouvre à Ta Voix” from “Samson”), Dalila), Dalila), Tenor Daniel Magdal (mentioned area of ”Turandot”), as well as two young artists, no one other than the daughter and son of Ioan Holender.
Liviu and Ioan Holender. Photo Andrei Grigore/Bucharest National Opera
Therefore, first the cellist Alina Holender who, with a beautiful tone, performed “Romance in Fa Major TRV 118” by Richard Strauss. The orchestra was directed by Daniel Jinga. Accompanied to the piano by Ioana Maxim, the baritone Liviu Holender offered to the father, with great sensitivity in the song, the “old lime” lied by Dan Mizrahi, as a dedication. “For you, father, with a lot of emotion, admiration and love,” Liviu said in Romanian.
It was an evening of the tribute of a “legend of Romania and the whole world”, as Marin Cazacu appreciated.
Happy Birthday, Mr. Ioan Holender, for July 18!
Ioana Maxim, Liviu Holender, Alina Holender, Daniel Magdal, Ramona Zaharia, Anita Hartig, Iulia Isaev, Ioan Holender, Daniel Jinga, Marius Constantinescu. Photo Andrei Grigore/Bucharest National Opera
