MONIKA JÄGEROVÁ

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Monika’s 2025/26 season will begin with the production of Scarlatti's Griselda at the All’Improviso Festival in Gliwice, Poland. In Poznań, she will make her debut as Zefka in Janáček's The Diary of One Who Disappeared, as well as Konchakovna in Borodin's Prince Igor at the Theater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich. She will return to the National Theatre in Brno as Bradamante (Handel: Alcina) and the Third Wood Nymph (Dvořák: Rusalka), and will also debut the role of Narciso in Handel's Agrippina at the same theatre.

Monika has performed as Bradamante (Handel: Alcina) at the National Theatre in Brno, the Opéra Royal du Château de Versailles, and at the Theater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich; as Cornelia (Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto) in Ostrava, Znojmo, and as a jump-in at Oper Köln; and she stepped in as Teodata (Handel: Flavio) at the Bayreuth Baroque Festival in 2023. In 2019, she performed the role of Ascalax (Telemann: Orpheus) in Vadstena, Sweden, and portrayed Timante (Hasse: Demofoonte) in Český Krumlov, for which she was nominated for the 2019 Thálie Award. At the National Theatre in Brno, she created the role of Sasha in the world premiere of the opera Here I Am, Orlando (Ľubica Čekovská, Opera Awards 2024).

In 2021 and 2023, she performed in Bergen, Norway as the Third Wood Nymph (Rusalka) in a production by La Fura dels Baus, and in 2023, she returned there as the Page and the Voice from Above in Wagner's Parsifal. In 2024, she sang Ozias in Juditha Triumphans (Vivaldi) at the Music Festival Znojmo, as well as jumping in as Holofernes at short notice. She also performed at the Oude Muziek Festival in Utrecht with Ensemble Tourbillon and collaborated with ensembles such as Concerto Köln, Collegium 1704, Czech Ensemble Baroque, and Hof-Musici.

Monika made her Czech stage debut in 2017 as Mrs. Quickly (Verdi: Falstaff) in Opava. In Ostrava, she has portrayed Cornelia, the Princess

(Puccini: Suor Angelica), and Zita (Puccini: Gianni Schicchi). She has also sung Dvořák’s Stabat Mater in concert with the FOK Orchestra (2025), performed Tisbe (Rossini: La Cenerentolla, Łukasz Borowicz, 2023) in Prague's Smetana Hall, and appeared as Radmila (Smetana: Libuše, Robert Jindra) as part of the Smetana Opera Cycle in Ostrava. She performed the role of the Third Wood Nymph in Rusalka at the Dvořákova Praha Festival 2022 under the baton of Semyon Bychkov.

She was a semifinalist at the Stanisław Moniuszko International Vocal Competition in Warsaw (2022) and a finalist at the Renata Tebaldi Competition in San Marino (2017). She is a co-founder of the Lieder Society and the initiator of the Sláva Vorlová (130) project, which led to the rediscovery of the composer’s song legacy and the release of a studio recording by Czech Radio - Radioservis (2024).

Monika Jägerová studied singing privately with Pavla Zumrová and continues her vocal studies with coaches Zdeněk Klauda and Ahmad Hedar. She has attended masterclasses in Dartington (Emma Kirkby), the Academy of Versailles (Chantal Santon Jeffery, Deda Cristina Colonna), and the Summer School of Early Music in Valtice (Markéta Cukrová, Lorenzo Charoy). She also studied violin at the Jan Deyl Conservatory in Prague and Musicology at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Leipzig in an ERC-grant project focused on the history of opera and political representation in the Habsburg Monarchy in the 19th century.

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