In the Mahler-year 2010 Dagmar Peckova sings his Symphony N° 8 with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and at the New Zealand Festival under Vladimir Ashkenazy, his Symphony N° 3 at the Festspielhaus Salzburg under Aleksandar Markovic, Das klagende Lied with the Residence Orchestra The Hague under Neeme Järvi, Kindertoten-Lieder with the Royal Flemish Philharmonic under Philippe Herreweghe and Wunderhorn-Lieder with the Orquesta Simfónica de Barcelona under Pablo Gonzalez as well as on Europe-tour with the Residence Orchestra The Hague under Neeme Järvi. Moreover Dagmar Peckova performs concerts in spring 2010 with the NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg and the Orchestre National de Lille.

Dagmar Peckova has performed at the Salzburger Festspiele, Bayerische, Sächsische and Hamburgische Staatsoper, Opéra National de Paris, Staatstheater Stuttgart, National Theatre Prague, Opernhaus Zürich, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Opéra National de Paris, Théâtre du Châtelet Paris, Théatre Royal de la Monnaie Bruxelles, Opéra National de Lyon, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Teatro Sao Carlos Lisboa, Royal Opera House Covent Garden London, De Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam and the San Francisco Opera. She has sung under the baton of outstanding conductors such as Belohlavek, Bychkov, Cambreling, Casadesus, Davies, Dohnanyi, Dutoit, Eschenbach, Fedoseyev, Gielen, Hager, Hickox, Honeck, Inbal, Janowski, Judd, Kout, Kreizberg, Luisi, Macal, Mackerras, Nagano, Netopil, Nott, Pesek, Piollet, Prêtre, Rasilainen, Runnicles, Sawallisch, Schiff, St. Clair, Stein, Swensen, Tate, Tovey, Traub, Weigle, Weller, Wolff and Young.

She has collaborated with: Münchner Philharmoniker, DSO Berlin, Staatskapelle Berlin, Staatskapelle Dresden and Weimar, Dresdner Philharmonie, RSO Frankfurt, Bamberger Symphoniker, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Wiener Symphoniker, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Geneve, Tonhalle Zürich, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg, Orchestre National de Belgique, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony, London Philharmonic, The Philharmonia, Royal Liverpool and Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Oslo and Israel Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, Prague Symphony, Cleveland and Pittsburgh Symphony, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo. She has performed recitals at the Wiener Musikverein, Châtelet Paris, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Carnegie Hall New York, Wigmore Hall London and also at the Rheingau and Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival. She has been a guest performer at the BBC Proms and the Edinburgh Festival. Supraphon and Teldec have released numerous CDs.

Born in Chrudim near Prague, Dagmar Peckova is a graduate of Prague Conservatory. She has been successful in a number of important contests, including 1^st prize at the Prague Spring Festival and at the Dvorák competition. After a first season’s engagement at the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden, Dagmar Peckova was a member of the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin for many years.

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