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Recently her opera „Here I am Orlando“ has been nominated for this year’s World Premiere Award – International OPERA AWARDS.

Referencies

BACHTRACK, Franck Kuznik, 22nd May 2015, review/ The Pallor of Dorian Gray at Prague spring festival

„Čekovská’s painting motif works brilliantly. What starts as a single recorded voice becomes a multi-tracked vocal that degenerates along with Gray’s soul, finally turning into a nails-on-the-blackboard sonic wail. It’s a strikingly effective device, especially used so sparingly.“

JUNGHEINRICH, Hans-Klaus: Der unverwüstliche Wüstling. In: Opernwelt 2014/1, s. 35

„Cekovska’s music shows clear influences of Britten, Shostakovich, Janáček, and Berg, which has been “skillfully homogenized…“

Arvo Pärt (estonian contemporary composer) – review on her CD „Passing Impressions

„You can feel purity, austerity and dramatic feeling in herworks….her music radiates with feelings of freshness and the joy of living… beauty and seriousness“

Opera review by George Loomis, 13th November 2013

„The new opera “Dorian Gray,” by the young Slovak composer Lubica Cekovska, represents the latter. Ms. Cekovska’s easily grasped, mildly dissonant style, with lyrically oriented vocal lines, underscores, as far as it goes, the unsettling nature of Oscar Wilde’s sinister novel. Tension is created by steady drumbeats, insistent rhythms and swelling chords. Ms. Cekovska interestingly conveys the picture’s disfiguration musically through wordless boy-soprano melodies that recur increasingly distorted.“

The Times BFI 50th London Film Festival, 2006 CRUAL JOYS, dir.Juraj Nvota

„The film’s languorous mood is complemented by a striking score from Ľubica Čekovská“

HARMONIE, 9.1.2016, Maxim Belčikov

„Ľubica Čekovská belongs to the one of the most talented composers in her generation“

Frankfurter Allgemeine, 22.08.2020 WERNER M. GRIMMEL

BREGENZER FESTSPIELE: Endlich eine heitere Corona-Oper

Lubica Čekovskás komische Oper „Impresario Dotcom“ feiert ihre Uraufführung bei den Bregenzer Festspielen – und besticht mit skurrilem Humor, leuchtenden Klängen und einer Parodie der Oper als Geschäft und Sozialraum.

mestohudby.cz

“Opera Here I am, Orlando by Slovak composer Ľubica Čekovská to a libretto by Viktoria Knotková is a beautiful piece of music. Combined with fabulous direction, beautiful sets and costumes, and an absolutely superb performance by all the soloists, chorus members and musicians, the audience had the opportunity to see an absolutely captivating production of an outstanding work in its world premiere. The novelty shows that giving space to modern, living composers is a step in absolutely the right direction.”

wyborcza.pl

“Opera can be an absolutely contemporary, funny, moving play. If anyone doubts this, go to Brno. “Here I am, Orlando” is an intimate masterpiece that I would like to hear and see in Poland before it conquers other world stages.”

faz.net

Lubica Chekhovska’s comic opera “Impresario Dotcom” celebrates its world premiere at the Bregenz Festival – and impresses with its bizarre humor, vibrant sounds and parody of opera as a commercial and social space.

Upcoming events

13. 11. 2024

Cologne, Kölner Philharmonie

Pri Bélovom okne

Slovak philharmonic
Daniel Raiskin conductor

12. 11. 2024

Stuttgart, Liederhalle

Pri Bélovom okne

Slovak philharmonic
Daniel Raiskin – conductor

25.10.2024

Bratislava, Slovak Philharmonic

Slovak Philharmonic 75th Anniversary Concert

Maison de la musique en sept périodes (world premiere)

Slovak philharmonic
Daniel Raiskin – conductor

 

24.10.2024

Bratislava, Slovak Philharmonic

Slovak Philharmonic 75th Anniversary Concert

Maison de la musique en sept périodes (world premiere)

Slovak philharmonic
Daniel Raiskin – conductor

 

13. 10. 2024

Here I am, Orlando

Here I am, Orlando

11.10.2024

Bratislava, Concert hall Dvorana

The Song for violoncello and piano

Ján Slávik – violoncello
Daniela Varínska – piano

Photo by Nelya Agdeeva