"Can one imagine a singer who performs Adina in a more enchanting, refreshing and vocally playful way than Adriana Kučerová? "

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Adriana Kučerová

Adriana Kučerová studied at the Conservatory and the Academy of music in Bratislava, and subsequently at Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Lyon. She became the laureate of the European Music Prize for Youth in Hamburg and the winner of the prestigious International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition in Vienna in 2005. At the Slovak National Theatre she has sung Morgana in Händel’s Alcina, the First Wood Sprite in Dvořák’s Rusalka  and Adina in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore. In 2006 she debuted as Serpetta (Mozart: La finta giardiniera) at the Mozartwoche Salzburg and at the Salzburger Festspiele conducted by Ivor Bolton. A recording of this production was released on a DVD by Deutsche Grammophon. At Milan’s La Scala she performed in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas  under the baton of Christopher Hogwood. At Munich’s Bayerische Staatsoper she won great acclaim for her portrayal of Sophie (Massenet: Werther). She sang Ninetta (Mozart: La finta semplice) at the Theater an der Wien, conducted by Fabio Luisi. In 2008 she made her debut with Glyndebourne Touring Opera as Adina (L’elisir d’amore) and at Paris’s Opéra-Bastille as one of Klingsor’s flower maidens in Wagner’s Parsifal. Following seasons she performed the role of Gretel (Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel) at the Glyndebourne festival and at the Theater an der Wien she created Anne Truelove (Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress) under the baton of Nicolaus Harnoncourt. She sang Marzelline (Beethoven: Fidelio) at the Salzburger Festspiele and at the BBC Proms in London (both productions conducted by Daniel Barenboim) and Mercédès (Bizet: Carmen) in La Scala under the baton of Daniel Barenboim and next season under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel. Later she performed, among other roles, Norina (Donizetti: Don Pasquale) in Dallas and  Adina in Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin and Bayerische Staatsoper, Susanna (Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro) in Houston and Nannetta (Verdi: Falstaff) in Toulouse. In April 2012, she debuted as Adina at the Wiener Staatsoper and she created Gilda (Verdi: Rigoletto) in Israeli Opera Tel Aviv. Next saesons she returns to the Wiener Staatsoper, (Adina beside Juan Diego Florez), Bayerische Staatsoper ( Hansel und Gretel),  Anne Trulove at the Staatsoper Berlin, Lisaura in Handel’s Alessandro  in Versailles, Händel‘s Messiah in Hamburg and a major European tour of Handel’s Orlando both with Jean-Christophe Spinosi and Ensemble Mattheus. In 2017 she made her role debut as Rosina ( Rossini :Il Barbiere di Siviglia) at the Wiener Staatsoper. At the Paris Opéra Bastille she sang with great success The Cunning Little Vixen (Janacek). In 2019 she performed in Semperoper Dresden as Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) and Julia (Gounod Romeo et Juliette) in Hobart. In the following season she sang at the Rara festival in Krakow (Antonin Dvorak : Vanda) and at the Bregenz festival contemporary opera Impresario Dotcom ( Violetta). In 2021 she made her role debut as Violetta Valery (la Traviata) together Pavol Breslik. For the months to come Adriana will debute in Turandot (Liu) under the musical direction of Juraj Valcuha, in Smetana’s Two Widows (Karolina) in Prague and in Carmina Burana.