Lenka Pavlovič

Lenka Pavlovič (born January 19, 1986 in České Budějovice ) is a Czech opera , operetta and concert singer ( soprano ).

Life

Lenka Pavlovič completed her seven-year vocal training at the music school in Třeboň and won several prizes at national and international singing competitions under the guidance of her teacher Stanislava Blažíčková . She then moved to the Ecclesiastical Conservatory in Bratislava where she continued her studies with Eva Malatincová . In the Bratislava Puppet Theater ( Bratislavské bábkové divadlo ) she appeared as Gretel in the opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck and as Morgana in the opera Alcina by Georg Friedrich Händel . From 2009 she continued her studies at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and graduated in 2014 under Vladimír Doležal , the soloist of the National Theater in Prague . Further studies took her to Vienna with the soprano Julia Conwell .

Pavlovič completed several international singing competitions, such as the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition , the International Singing Competition New Voices and the International Hilde Zadek Singing Competition . With her participation and the winning of several prizes at the International Antonín Dvořák Competition 2011, she achieved her breakthrough in her career and took her to the Czech opera stages. She has performed at the FX Šalda Theater in Liberec since 2013 a. a. as Adele in the Fledermaus by Johann Strauss , as the first forest nymph in Rusalka by Antonín Dvořák and as Wanda in Polenblut by Oskar Nedbal . Since 2014 she can be seen more and more often on the Prague stages, where she sells her repertoire a. a. extended to include Papagena in Mozart s Magic Flute , Kate Pinkerton in Puccini s Madama Butterfly and Eurydice in Offenbach s Orpheus in der Unterwelt . In 2016 she received the Thalia Award of the Czech Actors' Association in the operetta category for the role of Hortense in The Opera Ball by Richard Heuberger in Ostrava .

The singer had her first international appearance in August 2014 at the classical music festival "Kultur im Schloss Kirchstetten " ( Austria ), where she impressed as Zerlina in Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . The following year she set at this festival the Gianetta in L'elisir d'amore by Gaetano Donizetti . Her debut in Slovakia gave them in October 2017 at the State Theater Košice as Nannetta in Verdi 's Falstaff . She had her first appearance in a production on a German stage in December 2017 at the Leipzig Opera House as a kitchen boy in Rusalka by Antonín Dvořák .

Repertoire (selection)

Opera

• Adina and Giannetta in L'elisir d'amore by Gaetano Donizetti
• Ännchen in Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber
• A young shepherd in Tannhäuser by Richard Wagner
• First forest nymph and kitchen boy in Rusalka by Antonín Dvořák
• Gretel, Sand and Taumännchen in Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck
• Rooster / Jay in Smart Foxes by Leoš Janáček
• Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini
• Musetta in La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini
• Nannetta in Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi
• Papagena and First Lady in Die Zauberflöte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Piccolo / Child prodigy / The student in The Excursions of Mr. Broucek by Leoš Janáček
• Slave in Salome by Richard Strauss
• Confidante in Elektra by Richard Strauss
• Zerlina in Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

operetta

• Adele in Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss
• Arsena in Der Zigeunerbaron by Johann Strauss
• Eurydice in Orpheus in the Underworld by Jacques Offenbach
• Gabrielle in Parisian Life by Jacques Offenbach
• Hortense in The Opera Ball by Richard Heuberger
• Stasi / Anastasia, a Comtesse in Die Csárdásfürstin by Emmerich Kálmán
• Wally in A Thousand and One Nights by Johann Strauss
• Wanda in Poland Blood by Oskar Nedbal

concert

• Church cantata " I had a lot of concern " ( BWV 21) by Johann Sebastian Bach
• “Gypsy Melodies” op. 55 by Antonín Dvořák
• “ Coronation Mass ” in C major, KV 317 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• " Carmina Burana " by Carl Orff
• “ Stabat Mater ” by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Web links

• Lenka Pavlovič at Operabase (engagements and dates)
• Lenka Pavlovič homepage
• Lenka Pavlovič profile (in English) at Opera Musica
• Interview with Lenka Pavlovič on the occasion of her performance as Giannetta in Kirchstetten, July 2015
• Video and audio samples by Lenka Pavlovič in biographical order accessed on December 8, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography on Lenka Pavlovič's website accessed on December 3, 2017
2. ↑ Lenka Pavlovič | Offenbach | Orfeus v podsvětí | Orphée aux enfers | Muší duet | Fly duet. Video document on Youtube, December 3, 2017, accessed on December 3, 2017 (English). 
3. ↑ Národní Divadlo Slavi Moravskoslezské, dvě THALIE má doma! (Press release on the Czech Thalia Prize 2016). Fantom Kulturní Magazín, accessed December 12, 2017 (Czech). 
4. ↑ Peter Skoreba: Schlossfestival Kirchstetten: DON GIOVANNI Premiere August 2, 2014. Online Merker, accessed on December 1, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Peter Skoreba: Schloss Kirchstetten: Gaetano Donizetti L`ELISIR D`AMORE. Online Merker, August 1, 2015, accessed on December 1, 2017 . 
6. ^ Miroslav Pavlovič: Lenka Pavlovič | Verdi | Falstaff | Ninfe, Elfi ... Sul fil d'un soffio etesio | Nannetta. Video document on Youtube, May 7, 2018, accessed on May 16, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Lenka Pavlovič (artist portrait). (No longer available online.) Leipzig Opera House, archived from the original on December 16, 2017 ; accessed on December 15, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.