Henley Heyn Vol. 1
Henley Heyn voice
Slovak National Opera Orchestra
Peter Valentovič conductor
Henley Heyn’s self-titled HENLEY HEYN VOL. 1 was born from two important aspirations of her early career: to be seen and to be heard. Raw authenticity and artistic freedom drive this operatic multimedia release, performed by Heyn herself and the Slovak National Opera Orchestra.
Heyn has roared onto the operatic stage in recent seasons, making her Straussian and Wagnerian debuts as Salome & Brünnhilde, followed closely by a harrowing portrayal of Magda Sorel in Gian Carlo Menotti’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, The Consul. Now, she has collaborated with an 85-member orchestra to bring the impassioned vision of HENLEY HEYN VOL. 1 to life.
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Track Listing & Credits
# | Title | Composer | Performer | |
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01 | Leonore: Abscheulicher! Wo eilst du hin? Komm, Hoffnung... | Ludwig van Beethoven | Henley Heyn, voice; Slovak National Opera Orchestra | Peter Valentovič, conductor | 7:03 |
02 | Amelia: Morrò, ma prima in grazia | Giuseppe Verdi | Henley Heyn, voice; Katarína Černá - Zajaková, solo cello; Slovak National Opera Orchestra | Peter Valentovič, conductor | 4:57 |
03 | Didon: Ah! Ah! Je vais mourir... Adieu, fière cité... | Hector Berlioz | Henley Heyn, voice; Slovak National Opera Orchestra | Peter Valentovič, conductor | 6:10 |
04 | Sieglinde: Schläfst du, Gast? Der Männer Sippe | Richard Wagner | Henley Heyn, voice; Slovak National Opera Orchestra | Peter Valentovič, conductor | 6:09 |
05 | Susannah: The Trees on the Mountain | Carlisle Floyd | Henley Heyn, voice; Katarína Zajacová, cello; Slovak National Opera Orchestra | Peter Valentovič, conductor | 5:36 |
06 | Liza: Utzh polnoch blizitsya... Ach, istomilas ja gorem | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Henley Heyn, voice; Slovak National Opera Orchestra | Peter Valentovič, conductor | 5:41 |
07 | Angelica: Senza mamma | Giacomo Puccini | Henley Heyn, voice; Slovak National Opera Orchestra | Peter Valentovič, conductor | 4:50 |
08 | Elisabeth: Allmächt'ge Jungfrau | Richard Wagner | Henley Heyn, voice; Slovak National Opera Orchestra | Peter Valentovič, conductor | 6:49 |
09 | Magda Sorel: To this we've come | Gian Carlo Menotti | Henley Heyn, voice; Slovak National Opera Orchestra | Peter Valentovič, conductor | 7:40 |
Special thanks to: Anne Wieben (production), Elias Förg (videographer) & Andrej Grilc (photographer) for their generosity, expertise and friendship.
Recorded August 22-25, 2016 at the Slovak Radio in Bratislava, Slovakia
Recording Session Producer Jesse Lewis
Recording Session Engineer Pavel Hanzel
Editing Brett Leonard, Shauna Barravecchio, Christopher Moretti
Mixing Christopher Moretti
Mastering Jesse Lewis, Kyle Pyke
Photography by Andrej Grilc
Character photos by Ross Brinkerhoff
Production photos by Andrej Grilc
Album design by John Kramer
Executive Producer Bob Lord
VP of A&R Brandon MacNeil
A&R Ivana Hauser
VP of Production Jan Košulič
Audio Director Lucas Paquette
VP, Design & Marketing Brett Picknell
Art Director Ryan Harrison
Design Edward A. Fleming
Publicity Chelsea Kornago
Artist Information
Melanie Henley Heyn
Roaring onto the operatic stage in recent seasons, Melanie Henley Heyn made her Straussian and Wagnerian debuts as Salome & Brünnhilde, followed closely by a harrowing portrayal of Magda Sorel in Gian Carlo Menotti’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, The Consul. Singing a vast repertoire of music spanning the opera, concert, and folk worlds, her 33 divas recording project combining classic Wagner, Verdi, and Puccini roles with modern American opera heroines remains the No. 1 Most Funded Kickstarter for a Solo Classical Artist.
Slovak National Opera Orchestra Members
FIRST VIOLINS
Vladimír Harvan, Concertmaster
Daniela Csábi-Načeva
Štefan Filas
Mária Harvanová
Zuzana Hrašková
Lucia Kopčáková
Katarína Mintálová
Jozef Ostrolucký
Rudolf Patrnčiak
Karol Rigo
Vladimír Rozsypal
Július Szászi
Jaroslava Vol’anská
SECOND VIOLINS
Līga Olosová, Principal
Ján Džavík
Emilia Flimelová
Ján Lukáč
Oleg Latták
Ján Petráš
Gabriela Rybárová
Júlia Sojka
VIOLA
L’ubomír Ďuriš, Principal
Jozef Ábel
Júlia Bolebruchová
Pieter Das
Peter Dvorský
Emil Hasala
Barbora Kubiaková
Alexander Kušč
Igor Medzay
Dezider Szulcsanyi
CELLO
Katarína Zajacová, Principal
Mária Kovácsová
Katarina Kozelková
Pavol Kulifaj
Peter Michoněk
Ján Šiška
Martin Zeman
BASS
Marián Vavro, Principal
Juraj Černý
Erik Hasala
Peter Kán
Lumír Machek
Oto Šereš
FLUTE
Jaroslav Harvan, principal
Daniela Mareková
Karin Hübnerová, piccolo
OBOES/ENGLISH HORN
Vladislava Fabianová, Principal
Michal Šintál
Petr Kadera, cornoinglese
CLARINETS
Vladimír Halmeš, Principal
Peter Cvečka
Juraj Pivoluska
Kristián Tóth
Pavol Púchovský, bass clarinet
BASSOONS
Josef Rotter
Rastislav Šteffek
HORNS
Miklós Pál Horváth, Principal
Roland Lukovický
Tomáš Horkavý
Vladimír Lichvár
Marcel Majoroš
Ján Smutný
TRUMPETS
Peter Bubnič, Principal
Stanislav Masaryk
TROMBONES
L’uboš Šantavý, Principal
Juraj Mitošinka
Miloslav Pongrác, bass trombone
TUBAS
Pavol Poliak
Ivan Kováčik, cimbasso
PERCUSSION
Eduard Mikuláško, Principal
František Tkáč
Štefan Vagovics
Igor Repka
HARP
Katarína Turnerová
PIANO/CELESTE
Alena Hučková
Notes
This album was born from the dual desperations of my early career: to be HEARD and to be SEEN. To be seen, I needed to be heard; to be heard, I needed to be seen. So, I made this recording with orchestra, filming it, to be seen doing what I do. I believed this would help me be heard, which turned out to be true.
The artistic goal of this project is to be seen and heard as myself. So, zero photoshop, zero punch-ins. The photos you see are unedited: the fire is real, the water was cold, the sword was borrowed from a friend. The sound you hear comes from 85 people in a room for four days. While various takes have been stitched together to make the most of our abilities, the album, at its core, is a record of what we made, all together.
To those who helped bring this vision to life: Look! We made a thing! To my young, determined self, scared and brave beyond measure: the day I accepted you was the day I completed this project. Let’s listen together.
— Henley Heyn
Texts
Videos
Amelia: Morrò, ma prima in grazia
Sieglinde: Schläfst du, Gast? Der Männer Sippe
Anne Wieben interviews Melanie, Peter & Jesse backstage at the Radio in Bratislava, Slovakia