In the 2024/25 season, the contralto Monika Jägerová returns to the National Theatre Brno as Sasha (Čekovská: Here I am, Orlando, world premiere and Opera Awards 2024) and the 3rd Woodnymph (Dvořák: Rusalka). She will make her debut as Bradamante in a new production of Alcina at Munich's Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in spring 2025, as Cornelia in Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto in Ostrava and at the Znojmo Music Festival, and will participate in a performance of Dvořák's Stabat Mater with the Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK in April 2025.

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She made her debut on the Czech stage in 2017 with the role of Mrs. Quickly (Verdi: Falstaff) at the Silesian Theatre Opava. At the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in Ostrava, she appeared as La zia Principessa (Puccini: Suor Angelica) and Zita (Puccini: Gianni Schicchi), at the National Theatre in Brno and at the Opéra Royal du Château de Versailles she performed as Bradamante (Händel: Alcina, 2022). She appeared at Teatro Verdi in Trieste as Mrs. Baggot in Britten's The Little Sweep (2016). In 2021 and 2023 she guest starred at the Bergen National Opera as the 3rd Woodnymph (Rusalka) in the production of Spanish theatre group La Fura dels Baus. She sang the same role at Dvořákova Praha festival with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Semyon Byčkov. She returned to Bergen in January 2023 for Wagner's Parsifal as the Squire and the Voice from Above. At the Margravial Theatre in Bayreuth she jumped in as Theodata (Handel: Flavio, Bayreuth Baroque 2023). For the concert performance at the Smetana Hall in Prague she studied the role of Tisbe (Rossini: La Cenerentola, Łukasz Borowicz, Prague Philharmonia) and for the Smetana Opera Cycle 2024 she studied the role of Radmila in Smetana's Libuše (Robert Jindra, Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava). In 2022 she reached the semi-finals of the International Stanislaw Moniuszko Singing Competition in Warsaw and in 2017 she was a finalist in the Renata Tebaldi International Voice Competition in San Marino.

 

Monika is passionately dedicated to the interpretation of early music, she has collaborated with Concerto Köln, Collegium 1704, Czech Ensemble Baroque, Hof-musici and was a guest at the Oude Muziek Festival in Utrecht with Ensemble Tourbillon. For the role of Timante (Hasse: Demofoonte) at the Castle Baroque Theatre in Český Krumlov, she was nominated for the Thalie Award 2019. At the Hudba Znojmo festival 2024 she performed as Ozias and jumped in as Holofernes (Vivaldi: Juditha triumphans). For the 2019 Summer Stagion in Vadstena, Sweden, she staged the role of Ascalax (Telemann: Orpheus). She is one of the co-founders of Lieder Society, which promotes the gendre of classical Lied. As part of the Year of Czech Music 2024, she was at the heart of the project Sláva Vorlová (130), in which she and her colleagues rediscovered the songs of the female composer Sláva Vorlová for the Suk Hall of the Rudolfinum (a studio recording will be released in 2024 at Radioservis).

 

Monika Jägerová studied singing privately with Pavla Zumrova. She has attended masterclasses at Dartington (Emma Kirkby), Academie Versailles (Chantal Santon Jeffery, Deda Cristina Colonna) and the Valtice Summer School of Early Music (Markéta Cukrová, Lorenzo Charoy). She also studied violin at the Jan Deyl Conservatory in Prague and musicology at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University. She is continuing her PhD studies at the Universität Leipzig in an ERC-grant project focusing on the history of opera and political representation in the Habsburg monarchy in the 19th century.