Monika Jägerová

Biography

Alto Monika Jägerová made her debut on the Czech opera stage in 2017 in the role of Mrs. Quickly (Falstaff) at the Silesian Theatre in Opava. In the 2018/2019 season, she made her debut at the Moravian-Silesian National Theatre in Ostrava in the roles of the Princess (Suor Angelica), Zita (Gianni Schicchi) as well as the Old Slovak Woman (Fate). At the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, she participated in the international performance of Britten's The Little Sweep (2016) as Mrs. Baggot. In October 2021, she performed at the National Opera Bergen as the Third Nymph (Rusalka) in a production by La Fura dels Baus; in February 2022, she debuted at the National Theatre Brno in the role of Bradamante (Alcina) and participated in the premiere of this production at the Opéra Royal du Château de Versailles the following month. In June 2022, she reached the semifinals of the International Stanislav Moniuszko Vocal Competition in Warsaw.

In the 2022/23 season, she performed at the Rudolfinum in Prague with the Czech Philharmonic under the baton of Semyon Bychkov as the Third Nymph (Rusalka) and at the Moravian-Silesian National Theatre as the Chatelaine (in Křička's The Gentleman in White, or It's Tough Scaring Ghosts Today) and Barbara / Sofie Petrovna (in Krása's Betrothal in a Dream). In 2023, she made her debut in Wagner's Parsifal (2nd Knight and Voice from Above, conducted by Edward Gardner with the Bergen Philharmonic) and returned to the Bergen production of Dvořák's Rusalka, again as the Third Nymph.

As a passionate interpreter of early music, she collaborates with ensembles such as Collegium 1704, Czech Ensemble Baroque, Hof-musici, Ensemble Damian, and Ensemble Tourbillon. At the Baroque Castle Theatre in Český Krumlov, she played the roles of Curtio (in Giannettini's Claudio Nerone) and Timante (in Hasse's Demofoonte), for which she was nominated for the prestigious Thalia Award in 2019. At the Olomouc Baroque Festival, she sang Gloria (in Vivaldi's La Gloria e Imeneo) and Giove (in Dittersdorf's Il Tribunale di Giove), and in Vadstena, Sweden, she sang the role of Ascalax (in Telemann's Orfeo).

Monika Jägerová studied singing with Pavla Zumrová. She attended masterclasses with Emma Kirkby in Dartington, Chantal Santon Jeffery and Deda Cristina Colonna (Academy Versailles), Markéta Cukrová and Lorenzo Charoy (Summer School for Early Music in Valtice). Additionally, she studied violin at the Jan Deyl Conservatory in Prague and musicology at Charles University, focusing on 17th and 18th-century music and cultural analysis of music. She is continuing her doctoral studies at the University of Leipzig as part of an ERC scholarship project dealing with the history of opera and political representation in the Habsburg monarchy in the 19th century.

In September 2023, Monika Jägerová debuted as Teodata in Handel's Flavio at the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival, a role she also sang at her Musiktheater an der Wien debut in April 2024. In the 2023/24 season, Monika was also part of two productions at the National Theatre Brno. In Dvořák's Rusalka (Third Wood Nymph) in a new production by David Radok and in June 2024 at the world premiere of L. Čekovská: Here I’m, Orlando in the role of Sasha in a production by Jiří Heřman and conducted by Robert Kružík. This world premiere is based on the novel Orlando by V. Woolf. At the National Theatre Ostrava, she sang the role of Radmila in B. Smetana's Libuše under Robert Jindra.

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