Lívia Ághová

Guest of the State Opera Prague

She comes from a Hungarian family from the south of Slovakia. She graduated in the studies of singing from Bratislava. She is a laureate of many singing competitions (e.g.: the competition of A. Dvořák in Karlovy Vary, the competition of the Prague Spring, ARD Munich). After finishing her studies she impersonated several big characters of the world repertoire in the Slovak National Theatre (Mimi in Puccini’s La Bohème, Micaela in Carmen or Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni). In 1988 she became a soloist of the opera in the National Theatre in Prague, where she enriched her repertoire with other characters of the Czech and world opera (Bystrouška in The Adventures of the Vixen Bystrouška, Jenufa in Její pastorkyňa, Julie in Gounod’s Romeo and Julia, Sophie in the Rose Cavalier, Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte, Phébé in Castor et Pollux). She appeared as a guest in Berlin, in Hamburg, in Munich or Houston. She cooperates with the Czech Philharmonic in the concerts, as for the foreign orchestras, she performed with the Vienna philharmonic players, with the Bamber philharmonic players and with Orchestre de Paris. She was singing in Vienna, Madrid, Salzburg, Moscow, Koln and in Seville. The spectators of the State Opera Prague know her as for example Lia in Puccini’s Turandot or as Pamina in Mozart’s Magic Flute.