Olga Jelínková

Soprano Olga Jelínková graduated from Antonie Denygrová’s class at the Prague Conservatory in 2002, and from the class of Miloslav Podskalský at the Academy of Music in Prague in 2009. She attended master classes with Richard Sigmund in Merano, Italy, with Teresa Berganza in Santander, Spain, and with Peter Dvorský in Znojmo, Czech Republic. In June 2011 she reached the finals of the Concorso di Canto lirico internazionale per Cantanti lirici – Giacomo Puccini, in Lucca, Italy, and in November 2011 she won first prize in the Antonín Dvořák International Competition in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.

Olga Jelínková appeared during the summer season of 2002 at the Southern Bohemia Theatre in České Budějovice, as Rosina (Rossini, Il barbiere di Siviglia). She went on tour of Japan with the Prague Chamber Opera in June 2006, featured as the First Lady (Mozart, Die Zauberflöte), and then, from July through September, toured Germany with the same opera production, as the Queen of the Night. She appeared as Eurydice (Offenbach, Orphée aux Enfers) at the J.K. Tyl Theatre in Plzeň and at the Municipal Theatre in Brno, where she subsequently also created Madame Herz (Mozart, Der Schauspieldirektor). She sang the Queen of the Night in Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus at the Silesian Theatre in Opava. In early 2010, she appeared as Adele (J. Strauss, Die Fledermaus) at the Janáček Theatre in Brno, as the Queen of the Night (Mozart, Die Zauberflöte) at the Mahen Theatre, also in Brno, and guest appeared as Gilda (Verdi, Rigoletto) and Amina (Bellini, La sonnambula) at the F.X. Šalda Theatre in Liberec. Her creation of Amina earned her longlisting for the 2010 Thalia Award. As part of the Prague State Opera ensemble, she sang Micaëla (Bizet, Carmen) on tour in Seoul, Korea, in July 2010.

She works regularly with the Czech Philharmonic Collegium, a collaboration whose fruits have so far included the recording in 2005 of an album of operatic arias (Dvořák, Verdi, Puccini) for the Danish label Classico; and a Japanese concert tour in 2008. Figuring among her commitments to Czech Radio have been recordings of a programme of less known arias (Delibes, Le Rossignol; Handel, Nell dolce d’obblio); and in tandem with viola player Jitka Hosprová the premiere, at the Dvořák Hall in Prague, in March 2007, of a song cycle by Zdeněk Lukáš, Quis? for soprano and viola. Her other partners on the concert platform are organist Aleš Bárta, the Baroque Jazz Quintet, and the Ensemble Martinů. In September 2008, she sang the solo soprano part in Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, with the Prague Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jiří Kout. She is making her debut on the stage of the State Opera in Prague on February 1, 2012, as the Queen of the Night.