Janacek - Vec Makropulos (final)

Janacek - Vec Makropulos - Anja Silja (Emilia Marty)- The London Philharmonic (Ancrew Davis) Glyndebourne festival opera

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• Vec
• Makropulos
• Anja
• Silja
• opera

[Buondelmonte123]

Thank you, I did check out the Amsterdam performance. There's also footage from the Wiener Volksoper production which looks interesting.

[martello79]

@Buondelmonte123 Yeah you are right. I am very curious how that sounds! Obviously there is 35 years between the first and last performance :)

Btw did you check out thr final I uploaded? It's from Amsterdam 2000 andf I think Miss Silja is in ever better vocal shape there :)

[Buondelmonte123]

@martello79 I think Frau Silja first sang Emilia Marty in Stuttgart in 1970. Which means she has sung the part longer than Callas sang in opera, including her Greek years.

[starcevicg]

Maestralno, prvi put slusam ! ! ! Janacek je zaista genije !

[chrizosthemis]

Does she die?

[fuhjo]

Tak to je Janáček, který dokáže vyjádřit emoci ve dvou tónech - to je důvod proč ho považuji za nejlepšího. Někteří k němu nedokáží najít cestu, ale jakmile ji najdou, objeví gejzíry emocí. Připadá mi, jako by šel mimo proud, paralelní ke zbytku světa - Janáček a ti ostatní.

[CzarDodon]

In the story the lady is 337 years old! I think she looks great :-)

[martello79]

She did not perform this role much earlier than on the recording I believe.

And personally I believe that would not add much to her performance: The voice has not differed much over time. OK, she would have looked younger then, but then again the story is about a woman that has been there for a long time and done it all, and I think Anja Silja in her later career was on the same sort of level as the character of Emilia Marty....

[ecwaufisxtreme]

What would be nice is if there are videos of her performance of this role when she was younger.

[martello79]

I spoke to Mme Silja last weekend in Berlin shortly after a performance of Pique Dame and asked her for a next Vec Makropulos. But she told me she will not sing that role anymore, since this production does not exist anymore and she doesn't want to do it in new productions..... A pity, she is now 68years old but the voice is still in great shape!