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Jan Ladislav Rubeš[1] CM (6 June 1920 – 29 June 2009) was a Czech - Canadian bass opera singer and actor. [2] Life and career. Susan Douglas and Jan Rubeš singing Czech folk songs, 1953. Rubeš was born in Volyně, Czechoslovakia, to Ružena (née Kellnerová) and Jan Rubeš. [3] .
Jan Rubes (1920-2009) was a Czech-born Canadian opera singer and actor. He appeared in films such as Witness, The Amateur, and The X-Files, and won the Earle Grey Award for lifetime work in Canadian television.
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Jan Rubes. Actor: Witness. Jan Rubes was born in Volyne, Czechoslovakia, to Ruzena (Kellnerová) and Jan Rubes. After graduating in 1945 from the Conservatory of Music in Prague, he went on to join the Prague Opera House as their youngest basso singer.
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Jan Rubeš was a singer, actor and director whose career spanned more than half a century. Born in Volynĕ, Czechoslovakia in 1920, Rubeš was the second son of a local bank manager.
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In 1948 Rubeš emigrated to Canada and gave his first Canadian performance as Betto in Gianni Schicchi with the Royal Conservatory Opera (University of Toronto Opera Division). He was a soloist 1949-58 with the CBC Opera and an original member (1950) of the Opera Festival Company of Toronto (later the Canadian Opera Company). He appeared more than 1...
After Rubeš's performance as Leporello to George London's Don Giovanni at the 1958 Vancouver International Festival, John Beckwith wrote in the Autumn issue of the Canadian Music Journal"in the second act where they are required to impersonate each other, Mr. Rubeš even managed to adopt a bit of Mr. London's sneery vocal tone... [Rubeš's] mounting ...
Rubeš acted on stage and developed a film career, appearing in more than 100 roles, eg, in The Day Grandad Died (1982), Witness, One Magic Christmas, and Charlie Grant's War (1985), Blood Relations (1987), The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick and Something About Love (1988), The Two Men (1989), Class Action (1990), Deceived (1991), and The Christ...
Jan Rubeš was artist-in-residence at Wilfrid Laurier University in 1981, and taught at the University of Windsorin 1985. In addition to his professional activities, Rubeš was the Canadian national senior tennis champion.
"To translate or not to translate?" Opera Canada, 14, May 1963 "An actor is on his own," ibid, 39, Sep 1969
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Jun 30, 2009 · Jan Rubes was a founding member of the Canadian Opera Company and a host of CBC's Songs of My People. He also appeared in films such as Witness and TV shows such as Due South.
Jan 25, 2024 · https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275129/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_94_actFrom the deep private archive of the Czech-Canadian singer and actor Jan Rubeš (1920 - 2009), we b...
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