Jochen Kowalski |

Jochen Kowalski

Nkà nke countertenor, bụ nke a na-eji na narị afọ gara aga nanị na ukwe ụka, dị ugbu a n'oge ya. Ọ malitere n'eziokwu na Benjamin Britten kere ọrụ mbụ na akụkọ egwu ọgbara ọhụrụ maka olu a - ọ bụ akụkụ nke Oberon na opera A Midsummer Night's Dream. Otú ọ dị, ejiji na-ekpuchi ihe niile maka ndị na-emepụta ihe na-emepụta obere oge, na-agbasa nke eziokwu na arụmọrụ nke egwu oge ochie (bụ baroque). Ọ bụ castrati mere ya otu oge. Ma na narị afọ nke 20, omume rụrụ arụ dị ka ihe nkedo ghọrọ ihe na-agaghị ekwe omume, a na-achọkwa ndị na-ere ihe n'ọrụ ọhụrụ ha. Ọ bụ ha malitere ịgụ egwu Monteverdi na Handel, Cavalli na Gluck ebe niile. Na, ọ bụ ezie na njirimara nke olu nke castrato na countertenor adabaghị nke ọma, agbanyeghị, nke a adịghị enye ndị na-akwado eziokwu ahụ nsogbu ma ọlị. Akụkụ ọzọ nke countertenors bụ nnọchi nke mezzo-soprano na contralto na ọrụ nke travesty.

Ọ bụ n'akụkụ mkparị nke Fyodor na Boris Godunov ka German Johan Kowalski (b. 1983) mere mpụta mbụ ya na 1954 na ogbo nke Komische Oper. Onye na-abụ abụ a nwetara ama ama n'ụwa mgbe mmepụta a ma ama nke Gluck's "Orpheus" n'otu ụlọ ihe nkiri ahụ, nke Harry Kupfer mere na December 1987 na oge dabara na ncheta afọ 200 nke ọnwụ nke onye na-ede egwú. N'afọ 1989, a kwagara n'ọkwa Covent Garden.

Kowalski bụkwa onye egwu na-enweghị atụ nke akụkụ nke Prince Orlovsky na Bat. Ọ ghọrọ ya mpụta mbụ na Metropolitan (1995), ọ na-abụ ugboro ugboro na Vienna Opera (1991-1994) na ndị ọzọ nkiri. Na 1993, na Salzburg Festival, Kowalski sonyere na mmepụta ọmarịcha nke Monteverdi's Coronation of Poppea site Jurgen Flimm na Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Ottone). Ọrụ ndị ọzọ gụnyere Julius Caesar na opera Handel nke otu aha (1993, Schwetzingen; 1998, Berlin, wdg). Akwụkwọ akụkọ countertenor tinyekwara operas Handel Giustino na Alcina, Mozart's Mithridates, Eze Pontus.