Jolana FOGAŠOVÁ

Soprano

The operatic diva, Ms Fogašová studied vocal performance at the Bratislava Conservatory and the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, where she also received her PhD and currently works as tutor. As a student she was guest soloist at the Slovak Naitonal Theatre Opera. Shortly after her graduation she started collaborating with a prestigious Vienna agency what launched her successful international career.

Ms Fogašová received a scholarship from the Vienna State Opera Friends ´Club and was a finalist of the Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition.

The Slovak soprano is a regular guest at international operatic stages what brought her to over twenty countries worldwide. In addition to her international career she is permanent guest at the Slovak national Theatre Opera and the National Theatre in Prague. Here repertoire focuses on characters within the range of soprano spinto d’agilita: 

  • Floria Tosca (Giacomo Puccini: Tosca),
  • Lady Macbeth (Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth),
  • Salome (Richard Strauss: Salome),
  • Eglantine (Carl Maria von Weber: Euryanta),
  • Judith (Béla Bartók: Bluebeard’s Castle),
  • Gioconda (Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda),
  • Elisabetta di Valois (Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlo),
  • Manon Lescaut (Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut),
  • Elisabetta (Gaetano Donizetti: Maria Stuarda),
  • Lucrezia Contarini (Giuseppe Verdi: I due Foscari),
  • Abigaille (Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco),
  • Elza von Brabant (Richard Wagner: Lohengrin),
  • Venus (Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser),
  • Carmen (Georges Bizet: Carmen),
  • Foreign Princess and the Witch: (Antonín Dvořák: Rusalka)
  • Joan of Arc (Piotr Tchaikovsky: The Maiden of Orleans),
  • Marina Mniszech (Modest Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov)

Currently, Ms Fogašová features at the Slovak National Theatre as

  • Katrena (Eugen Suchoň: The Whirlpool),
  • Lady Macbeth (Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth),
  • Abigail (Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco),
  • Carmen (Georges Bizet: Carmen),
  • Elisabetta di Valois (Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlo),
  • Foreign Princess (Antonín Dvořák: Rusalka),
  • Floria Tosca (Giacomo Puccini: Tosca).

For her interpretation of Floria Tosca in Puccini’s Tosca Ms Fogašová received the 2018 DOSKY Award for exceptional operatic performance.

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