Alžběta Poláčková

Alžběta Poláčková studied voice at the Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, in the class of Prof. René Tuček. She has enjoyed great success at several singing contests. Since 2003 she has been permanently engaged at the National Theatre, where she has sung Maria, Mariken and Soprano (Martinů - The Miracles of Mary), Kristina (Janáček - The Makropulos Case), Mozart’s Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro), Zerlina and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), the Chambermaid (Dvořák - The Devil and Kate), the Landlady (Smetana - The Secret), Mařenka (Smetana - The Bartered Bride, Giannetta (Donizetti - L’elisir d’amore), Terinka (Dvořák – The Jacobin), the Talking Parcel and the Mermaid (Ivanović - Enchantia), Euridice (Gluck – Orfeo ed Euridice), Micaela (Bizet - Carmen) and recently Vixen (Janáček – The Cunning Little Vixen). She has also performed at concerts, for instance at Vienna’s Musikerlebnis Mitteleuropa Festival and the Österreichische Europa-Tage in Kraków. She has collaborated with the Virtuosi di Praga Orchestra, with the Zlín-based Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra, and many others. She also sang the soprano parts in Antonín Dvořák’s and G. B. Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater. Several times she has appeared at the Prague Spring Festival and collaborated with a number of famous European conductors.