"Jenufa Gleich throws herself into the music with wild abandon which brings the whole thrillingly to life ..."
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"Gleich’s account of Senta’s ballad makes you want to hear her sing the role on stage; she has the true measure of Senta’s capacity for self dramatisation as she dreams of the Dutchman."
BBC Music Magazine
Jenufa Gleich is a dramatic soprano with a focus on Wagner and Strauss.
She recently recorded a full Wagner album with the BBC Orchestra of Wales under the baton of Fabrice Bollon.
Jenufa was just a Featured Artist on BBC Radio 3 singing the Wesendonck Lieder. She has sung with numerous conductors including Jaap van Zweden (Ring Cycle/Hong Kong Philharmonic on Naxos), Fabrice Bollon (BBC Now), Anthony Negus (Longborough Festival Opera), Eve Queler (Opera Orchestra of New York), Gianluca Marciano (Fiesole Opera Festival) and others.
Photos: Dario Acosta / Area Archeologica di Fiesole
Jenufa Gleich featured artist in British Airways High Life Magazine
Jenufa Gleich is the featured artist in the British Airways High Life Magazine from June until December 2021.
New release: Träume – now available for purchase
Jenufa Gleich's debut solo album Träume is now available for purchase. Released by Stone Records, the album features arias and song by Richard Wagner, including famous arias from characters such as…
Träume – Introduction by Jenufa Gleich
Wagner is a controversial figure. As the granddaughter of holocaust survivors, some may struggle with my collaboration. I believe that Wagner’s compositions transcend borders, governments,…
Träume is the debut solo album from rising-star dramatic soprano Jenufa Gleich of arias and songs by Richard Wagner. It features famous arias from characters such as Brünnhilde (The Ring Cycle), Senta (The Flying Dutchman) and Elisabeth (Tannhäuser) as well as an aria from his less well-known early opera Die Feen. It concludes with the exquisite Wesendonck Lieder. The disc explores the bel canto aspect of Wagners often-heroic music, taking its cue from Wagners desire for his works to be a German form of this Italian style.
Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods) is the epic fourth and final opera of Wagner’s great Ring cycle, with a plot that depicts the fall of heroes, gods, and the entire world. As ever with the Ring, the joys of love are all too fragile and fleeting, and the drama of Götterdämmerung revolves around dark and unsettling reversals of fortune and illusions of hope that synthesize thrilling and powerful grand opera traditions with Wagner’s revolutionary techniques. Containing all of the Ring’s essential elements, Götterdämmerung possesses a profoundly satisfying sense of inevitability that makes it both a towering climax and a unified summation of the Ring’s abundant variety.
Release date: October 5, 2018 Label: Naxos ASIN: B07K1JWRBW
Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods) is the epic fourth and final opera of Wagner’s great Ring cycle, with a plot that depicts the fall of heroes, gods, and the entire world. As ever with the Ring, the joys of love are all too fragile and fleeting, and the drama of Götterdämmerung revolves around dark and unsettling reversals of fortune and illusions of hope that synthesize thrilling and powerful grand opera traditions with Wagner’s revolutionary techniques. Containing all of the Ring’s essential elements, Götterdämmerung possesses a profoundly satisfying sense of inevitability that makes it both a towering climax and a unified summation of the Ring’s abundant variety.
Release date: October 1, 2018 Label: Naxos ASIN: B07HN55PF8 Number of CDs: 4
Jenufa Gleich as the Third Norn in Wagner's Götterdämmerung - Hong Kong Philharmonic and Jaap Van Zweden, NAXOS
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A pleasure… exquisite piano singing… singing with beauty and grace… I’d like to hear her in this full role (Elisabeth/Tannhäuser)… I look forward to hearing more from her.
Opera News
“Dich, teure Halle” begins joyfully, turns dark in the middle section, then ends in more joy. Gleich sings the role sensitively and with admirable nuance. “Allmacht’ge Jungfrau” is even…
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The voice soars … an appealing voice, clear and unmannered … negotiates its athletic contours impressively … a total success.
Wagner Journal
Bel Canto Wagner
Niall Hoskin enjoys the CD debut of the soprano Jenufa Gleich
Wagner: Träume. ‘Weh’ mir, so nah’ die fürchterliche Stunde’ (Die Feen); ‘Allmächt’ge Jungfrau!’,…
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I cannot wait to hear Jenufa Gleich in some significant Wagnerian roles.
Music Web International
Music Web International
This is at one and the same time a surprisingly and unexpectedly successful disc. Perhaps I should begin by qualifying the first two of these adjectives. Surprising? Well,…
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The best of them (Wesendonck-Lieder) is Träume to which she brings all her skills as a bel canto-trained singer to Wagner's languorous musical Line.
BBC Music Magazine
BBC Music Magazine
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Elisabeth's arias from Tannhäuser are handsome enough
BBC Music Magazine
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...with competitors at every fence and with very great performances from Flagstad and Ludwig to Nina Stemme and Susan Bullock leading the field. Yet Gleich takes the orchestra version of these five lieder in her stride.
BBC Music Magazine
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Gleich’s account of Senta’s ballad makes you want to hear her sing the role on stage; she has the true measure of Senta’s capacity for self dramatisation as she dreams of the Dutchman.
BBC Music Magazine
BBC Music Magazine
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The Wagner arias in this recital are anything but the familiar calling cards from a singer looking to make her mark. It was courageous of the American soprano Jenufa Gleich to begin with Ada’s aria “Weh’ mir, so nah’ die fürchterliche Stunde” from Die Feen. It’s a hugely demanding number from a young composer determined to storm the operatic heights, but Gleich has the measure of its vocal scale.
BBC Music Magazine
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It is the performance of all five of the Wesendonck Lieder concluding this disc which places the crown on a superlative recital... I cannot wait to hear Jenufa Gleich in complete Wagnerian recordings
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Jenufa Gleich throws herself into the music with wild abandon which brings the whole thrillingly to life
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Senta is a role that has traditionally defeated many sopranos, with its contrasts of lyric and heroic styles; here the singer triumphantly surmounts all the difficulties which the relatively inexperienced Wagner placed in her way.
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A surprisingly and unexpectedly successful disc... An evidently well-suited talent
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Jenufa Gleich is a rare dramatic soprano that extends with ease and flexibility to an impressive upper register
