Irena Troupová Explained

Irena Troupová (Irena Troupova-Wilke^[1]) is a Czech soprano and early music specialist.

Biography

Troupová studied singing with Terezie Blumová.^[2] She regularly performs in the Berlin State Opera, Berlin Symphony Orchestra and others.^[3] A 2023 publication stated that "the well-known soprano Irena Troupová who, after a period ofinterpreting Baroque music, has been focusing on 20th-century music in recent years."^[4]

Troupová's double CD recording, Schwer ist’s, das Schöne zu lassen, features music written by composers who were interned at the Theresienstadt Ghetto in Terezín as part of the Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia during World War II.^[4]

Discography

• Schütz: Musikalische Exequien; Schütz, et al.: Trauermusik ^[5]
• Schütz, Praetorius, Schein, etc.: Funeral Music / Arman ^[6]
• Monteverdi, C.: Vespers for the Feast of the Ascension (Arman)

External links

• Irena Troupová
• Irena Troupová - Academy of Early Music, Czech Republic

Notes and References

1. Web site: Hudební tradice českých Vánoc . Czech Republic - Official website . Fialová, Jana . 2009-10-07.
2. IRENA TROUPOVÁ and her musical curiosity. Czech Music Quarterly. December 2018. Petr. Bakla. Czech Music Information Centre, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.
3. Web site: Irena Troupová . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110708165859/http://www.cz.cmbrno.com/index.php/component/content/article/64 . 2011-07-08 . 2009-10-07 . Collegium Musicum Brno . cs.
4. "Music kept us alive": The dynamic of majority–minority recollections and musical remembrance of Terezín. Puls: Journal for Ethnomusicology and Ethnochoreology. Zuzana. Jurková. 8. 2023. 52.
5. http://www.hbdirect.com/album_detail.php?pid=179742{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
6. Web site: Schütz, Praetorius, Schein, etc: Funeral Mus - HBDirect Classical . 2009-10-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110929024948/http://www.hbdirect.com/album_detail.php?pid=592041 . 2011-09-29 . dead .