Simona Procházková

Soprano Simona Procházková graduated from the Conservatory and the Janáček Music Academy in Brno. Following early succeses in the Antonín Dvořák International Singing Competition in Karlovy Vary and Totti dal Monte in Trevisio, Italy, she became a soloist of the Prague State Opera. Her creations on its stage have included Adina (L’elisir d’amore), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Violetta (La traviata), Liù (Turandot), Mimì (La bohème), Leonora (Il trovatore), Micaëla (Carmen), Tatyana (Eugene Onegin), Vendulka (The Kiss), Jenůfa, Rusalka, and others. Simona Procházková has also guest appeared at the National Theatre in Prague (as Terinka in The Jacobin, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, and Violetta), at the National Theatre in Brno (Violetta, Pamina, Rusalka), and at the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava (as Micaëla, Donna Anna, Pamina, and Violetta). At the Estates Theatre in Prague, she sang Servilia (La clemenza di Tito), Pamina, Fiordiligi, and Donna Anna. She was Jenůfa in Zagreb (under the baton of Niksa Bareza), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) at the Markgräflisches Opernhaus in Bayreuth and in Gars, Austria, and Pamina at the Römerberg Musik Festspiele in Frankfurt. Touring with the Prague State Opera, she sang in Switzerland (Jenůfa), Germany (Pamina), Japan (Pamina, Violetta), and in performances of the Beseto Opera in Seoul, Korea (Pamina). As a sought-after concert singer, she has performed in Spain (Auditorio de Música Barcelona, Festival de Música de Canarias – Teatro Guimerá), has worked with the Raanana Symphony Orchestra in Israel, and sang a programme of Mozart arias on tours in Spain and in Brazil. She has collaborated with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the Prague Philharmonia, Virtuosi di Praga, and the Prague Symphony Orchestra (Mozart’s Requiem and Coronation Mass, Dvořák’s Stabat mater, Te Deum, Saint Ludmila and Requiem, and Martinů’s Bouquet of Flowers). She is likewise a dedicated lieder interpreter.