Iveta Jiříková

Soprano Iveta Jiříková studied with Svatava Šubrtová at the Conservatoire in Pardubice, and with Magdalena Blahušiaková at the Academy of Music in Bratislava. In 1999 she debuted on the stage of the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava, as Marka in Eugen Suchoň’s The Whirlpool. In the following year she won awards from two international voice contests, at Trnava (first place), and at Karlovy Vary (second place). Her early international experiences included guest appearances at the Stadtheater Giessen, as Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (2001). From 2001 – 2009 she was soloist of the National Theatre in Prague, where she created the Mozartian roles of the Countess (Le nozze di Figaro), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), and Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), as well as the parts of Micaela (Bizet’s Carmen), Flora (Verdi’s La traviata), Alice Ford (Verdi’s Falstaff), Adelaide in Glass’s Beauty and the Beast, Blaženka (Smetana’s The Secret) and Mařenka (Smetana’s The Bartered Bride), Míla (Janáček’s Fate), Karolka (Janáček’s Jenůfa), Lenio (Martinů’s The Greek Passion), and others. She was part of the National Theatre’s ensemble touring in Salzburg (The Bartered Bride), Japan (Le nozze di Figaro), and Madrid (Teatro Real, Fate). She has guest appeared at the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava (as Micaela, Liù in Turandot, and Mařenka and Vendulka in Smetana’s The Bartered Bride and The Kiss, respectively), as well as appearing at Liberec (Tchaikovsky’s Jolanthe, and Mimi in Puccini’s La bohème), at the National Theatre in Brno (Rusalka), and at the State Theatre in Košice (La Bohème). Elsewhere, she sang Agnes in Tchaikovsky’s The Maid of Orleans, at the Theater Bielefeld, and at the Wexford Festival, in the title role of Foerster’s Eva (2004), and as the Foreign Princess in Rusalka (2007). Prague State Opera audiences have known her as the Foreign Princess in Rusalka.