Adriana Kohútková

Adriana Kohútková studied voice at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava with Prof. Hana Štolfová-Bandová. In 1993 she became a soloist with the opera of the Slovak National Theatre, where she has sung numerous major operatic roles (Gilda in Rigoletto, Konstanze in The Abduction from the Seraglio, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Violetta in La traviata, Lucia di Lammermoor, Nedda in I Pagliacci, Amina in La Sonnambula, Tatiana in Eugene Onegin, Mimi in La bohème, Marie in La fille du régiment, Michaela in Carmen, Adina in L’elisir d’amore, Cio-cio-san in Madama Butterfly, Rusalka, Marguerite in Faust, Lucrezia Borgia etc.). With the opera of the Slovak National Theatre, she has also appeared in Paris (Olympia in Tales of Hoffman) and Japan (Musetta in La bohème, Violetta). While she began as a coloratura soprano, today she sings mainly lyrical and light dramatic soprano roles.

She makes frequent guest appearances abroad, e.g. at the Grand Théâtre de Genève as Luisa in Prokofiev’s Betrothal in a Monastery, at the opera festival in Budapest Konstanze in The Abduction from the Seraglio, at the G. Verdi Theatre in Trieste as Mařenka in The Bartered Bride, in Ljubljana as Armgard in Offenbach’s Rhine Nymphs (2005) and Violetta (2007), in Hamburg as Marie La fille du régiment (2007), again in Trieste as Donna Anna 2007), in Teatr Wielki, Warsaw as Lucrezia Borgia (February 2010) etc.

Adriana Kohútková also appears often as a guest at the National Theatre and the Prague State Opera. She has earned fame as an outstanding performer in concert as well (Glagolitic Mass by Leoš Janáček, Stabat Mater and The Spectre’s Bride by Antonín Dvořák, Carmina Burana by Carl Orff), collaborating with top orchestras and conductors (Ondrej Lenárd, Jiří Bělohlávek, Vladimír Válek, Peter Maag, Sylvain Cambreling, Jonathan Darlington, Oliver Dohnányi, Ralf Weikert, James Judd, Serge Baudo, Friedrich Haider, Zdeněk Mácal, Rastislav Štúr, Petr Altrichter etc.).

Her credits include several interesting recordings (the title role in the world-premiere CD recording of Emmanuel Chabrier’s opera Gwendoline under the baton of Jean-Paul Penin, two operas by Respighi for the label HNH International and a live recording of six Janáček songs for Radio France).