Jana Kurucová

Jana Kurucová

Mezzo-sopranos
She studied church music, conducting, and singing at the J. L. Bella Conservatory in Banská Bystrica. Later, she completed a pedagogical minimum in opera singing at the Bratislava Conservatory. She received a two-year scholarship at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz (Austria). There, she studied opera singing with Agatha Kania and Gottfried Hornik. Her first steps on the opera stage were roles in Mozart's operas (the Second Lady in The Magic Flute and Ramiro in The Pretend Garden-Girl).
 
In the 2005/2006 season, she was a member of the Bavarian State Opera under General Conductor Zubin Mehta, where she sang Sandmännchen in Hansel and Gretel or Magd in Königskinder under Fabio Luisi. In 2006/2009 she worked at the theatre in Heidelberg. She appeared as Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, Idamante in Idomeneo, Sesto in La Clemenza di Tito, Charlotte in Werther (J. Massenet), Rosina in Barbiere di Sevilla (G. Rossini) and in many other roles. She worked at the Winter Baroque Festival in Schwetzingen, where she sang Vivaldi's trouser figures such as Megacle in L'Olympiade, Licio in Tito Manlio.... Her concert performances were at the Heidelberg Castle Festival, with the Essen Philharmonic, in Antwerp at the Queen Elisabeth Hall, and Open Air at the Gendarmentmarkt in Berlin.
 
Since September 2009, she has been a soloist at the DEUTSCHE OPER BERLIN, where she has performed in numerous roles. Rosina, Cherubino, Fenena (G. Verdi: Nabucco), Mercedes (G. Bizet: Carmen), Flora (G. Verdi: La Traviata), Zerlina conducted by Robberto Abbado, Mélisande (Pélleas et Mélisande) under the musical direction of Donald Runnicles, etc. In September 2011 she sang at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville (Spain) in The Marriage of Figaro. In the 2012/2013 season she performed the role of Maffio Orsini in Lucrezia Borgia (alongside Edita Gruberová and Pavol Breslik) for the first time at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, as well as the role of The Fox in Janáček's opera The cunning little vixen, Meg Page in Falstaff, Suzuki in Madame Butterfly, and Zerlina in Don Giovanni as a guest at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari. She also had a successful appearance at the Peking Opera in The Marriage of Figaro as Cherubino, and in March 2014, she made her debut as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as well as at the Oslo Opera. She also had a successful appearance at the Peking Opera in The Marriage of Figaro as Cherubino, and in March 2014, she made her debut as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as well as at the Oslo Opera. At the end of the season, her debut at the Dresden Semperoper as Rosina in Il Barbiere Di Siviglia was equally successful.
 
In addition to her duties at Deutsche Oper Berlin, in the 2014/2015 season, she performed the role of Elisabetta for the first time in the opera Maria Stuarda in Ostrava, and made her debut as Carmen at the Prague State Opera. Other performances followed, such as Donna Elvira at Don Giovanni in Prague, Berlin, and Bratislava. In 2016 she made her debut as Sesto in Giulio Cesare and made her first appearance at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden as Marta in Boito: Mefistofele. Last season she also sang for the first time the role of Dorabella in Così Fan Tutte at Deutsche Oper Berlin and introduced herself to Japanese audiences as Cherubino in The Marriage Of Figaro at the New National Theatre in Tokyo. In May, she sang the role of Isolier in Le Comte Ory with Lawrence Brownlee and Jessica Pratt at the Klangvokal Music Festival in Dortmund.
 
In September, she appeared at the Dvořák Prague Festival alongside Christine Opolais, Richard Samek and René Pape in Antonín Dvořák's Stabat Mater. By the end of the year, and she will perform as Rosina in Il Barbiere Di Siviglia at the Semperoper in Dresden and Bratislava and as Elisabetta Maria Stuarda in Banská Bystrica. She will perform at the Festival of Music in Prague at the Rudolfinum, as well as at the Christmas Concert at the Slovak Philharmonic in Bratislava. In May 2018, she was introduced as Martha Boito: Mefistofele alongside Joseph Calleja and Erwin Schrott at the Bavarian State Opera and performed the role of Elisabetta in Maria Stuard alongside Diana Damrau and Javier Camarena at Deutsche Oper Berlin, where she also made her debut as Siebel in Gounod: Faust. In autumn 2018, she made her debut as Prinz Orlovsky The Flittermause. In January 2019, she made her debut as Muse/Nicklausse in Hoffmann's Tales at Deutsche Oper Berlin. At the same time, she performed as Carmen at the National Theatre in Prague and at the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava. She made her debut at Smetana Hall in Prague in April, where she played the alto part in Dvořák's Stabat Mater.
 
Since the 2019/2020 season, she has been a permanent member of the Hamburg State Opera, where she has appeared as Cherubino in The Marriage Of Figaro, as Brigitta in The Dead City and as Hänsel in Hansel And Gretel. She continues to appear at Deutsche Oper Berlin as Fenena in Nabucco, Prinz Orlofsky in Die Flittermause and Hansel in Hansel And Gretel. In February 2020, she performed the role of Donna Elvira Don Giovanni at the Opera in Graz and the role of Dorabella Così Fana Tutte at the Semperoper in Dresden. She also played the role of Angel in Schumann's oratorio Paradise And The Peri at the Slovak Philharmonic. In September 2020, together with Kent Nagano and under the direction of Frank Castorf, she opened the new Hamburg Opera season with the production Molto Agitato. In April 2021, she worked on the concert series ARTE CONCERT: EUROPE @ HOME alongside Daniel Hope, where she presented her country, Slovakia, through various arias. In June, she made her debut in the role of Preziosilla The Power Of Fate at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. She will perform Carmen this season at the Slovak National Theatre Opera in Bratislava.

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Gold-Stripe (Zlatohřbítek) the Fox