ANNA NITROVÁ - BIOGRAPHY

At the beginning of her career, she was a member of the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre opera choir under the conduction of Jurij Galatenko (between 1999 and 2001), in 2001 she has become a soloist of the opera company. She has portrayed the roles of Varvara (Janáček’s Katya Kabanová), Rosina (Rossini’s The Barber of Seville),  Konchakovna (Borodin’s Prince Igor), Kate (The Devil and Kate by Dvořák), Suzuki (Puccini’s Madama Butterfly), Flora Bervoix (Verdi’s La traviata), Fenena (Verdi’s Nabucco) and Nikolios (The Greek Passion by Martinů); she has also portrayed several roles in Jaromír Nohavica’s adaptations of some Mozart’s operas, for example Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) and Cherubino (The Marriage of Figaro), we could lately see her as Annio in La clemenza di Tito.  Apart from the roles of Cherubino and Annio, she has performed another so-called “breeches roles”, for example the Composer (Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos), Siébel (Gounod’s Faust) and Smeton (Donizetti’s Anna Bolena).  According to Nitrová, her most significant roles are Carmen (in Bizet’s opera adaptation - La Tragédie de Carmen by Brook, Carriére and Constant) and Isabella (Rossini’s L'italiana in Algeri).