MUSICOLOGY
Monika Jägerová studied Musicology at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University and is continuing her doctoral studies at the Department of Modern Cultural and Intellectual History at the University of Leipzig. She worked there as a research associate within the ERC Advanced Grant on the role of opera in the representation of the Habsburg Monarchy. Her research focuses on cultural analysis and gender aspects of music performance, mainly in the 19th century. Through her activities, she has long been connecting theoretical and practical musical knowledge.
As part of her studies, she organized the ERC Study Day conference "Opera and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Habsburg Bohemia," where she presented new findings on the life of composer Agnes Tyrrell based on an edition of her rediscovered correspondence.
As part of the Year of Czech Music 2024, she initiated the release of the 2CD Sláva Vorlová: Písně, featuring leading song performers of the young Czech generation. The sheet music will be published in 2026 by Bärenreiter.
MUSICAL AND MUSICOLOGICAL EDITIONS
Agnes Tyrrell (1846-1883)
ed. Monika Jägerová
Der erfrorene Knabe, Op. 30
Bertran de Born – Overture and ballet music from the opera
ed. Monika Jägerová, Dietmar Friesenegger
Correspondence
ed. Monika Jägerová, Dietmar Friesenegger
Sláva Vorlová (1894-1973)
Sláva Vorlová: Stesk
Bärenreiter, 2026
2CD Sláva Vorlová: Songs
Lieder Society & Radioservis, 2024
RESEARCH
PhD studies & ERC grant project
Modern Cultural and Intellectual History, Universität Leipzig
Opera and the Politics of Empire in Habsburg Europe, 1815-1914
ERC Study Day
Opera and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Habsburg Bohemia
“A Female Brain Could Not Be Capable of Such a Marvel”:
Agnes Tyrrell’s Only Opera.
Zvuk, Gender, Identita / Sound, Gender, Identity
ed. Tereza Havelková, Vít Zdrálek. Karolinum, 2024
Master's degree
Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University