If you have been following this blog, you know that I consider Patricia Janečková one of the great emerging talents of classical singing. She has the purity of tone of a young singer (she is only 23, which is training-wheels age for opera singers) and the expressive range of someone much more mature. Many fans consider her one of opera’s brightest hopes in an era of declining support for the art form.
Janečková just announced her diagnosis with breast cancer,
and has cancelled her performances for 2022. The prognosis for young women diagnosed with breast cancer is significantly worse than for older women. We do not know any details about her case, and can only hope and pray that she survives and recovers.
Here is something she recorded in late 2021. This is my favorite of the “big three” Ave Marias (Gounod/Bach, Vavilov and Schubert). Janečková and Vilém Veverka (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vil%C3%A9m_Veverka; oboe) turn in a magical, haunting performance.
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