Verdi’s Requiem (Bamberger Symphoniker/Jonathan Nott), 2nd Mahler (London Philharmonic Orchestra/Simone Young), Elias (Wiener Symphoniker/Fabio Luisi) Dvorak’s Stabat mater (Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France/Vladimir Fedoseyev) and Requiem (Orchestre National de Belgique/Walter Weller), a Japan tour with the Czech Philharmonie under Zdenek Macal (3rd Mahler) as well as a Europe tour with the WDR Simfonieorchester Köln under Eliahu Inbal (Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder) are among Dagmar Peckova’s concert schedule for the season 2007/08. She also performs in a Turin Salome production and gives her role debut as Ortrud in a new production of Lohengrin at the Staatstheater Braunschweig. In spring 2007 she sang in a co-production of the Théatre Royal de la Monnaie Bruxelles and the Opéra National de Lyon in Stravinsky’s Rake’s Progress.

As one of the world’s most requested mezzo-sopranos, Dagmar Peckova has performed at the Salzburger Festspiele, the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden, the Hamburgische Staatsoper, the Staatstheater Stuttgart, the National Theatre Prague, the Opernhaus Zürich, the Opéra National de Paris, the Théâtre du Châtelet Paris, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, the Teatro Sao Carlos Lisboa, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden London, the 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, Mackerras, Nagano, Pesek, Prêtre, Rasilainen, Runnicles, Sawallisch, St. Clair, Stein, Swensen, Tate, Tovey and Wolff.

Dagmar Peckova has collaborated with numerous renowned orchestras such as the Münchner Philharmoniker, DSO Berlin, Staatskapelle Berlin, Staatskapelle Dresden und Weimar, Dresdner Philharmonie, RSO Frankfurt, SWR Sinfonieorchester, Suisse Romande Geneve, Tonhalle Zürich, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony, The Philharmonia, BBC Symphony, Royal Liverpool and Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Oslo and Israel Philharmonic, Tchaikovsky-Symphonieorchester Moskau, Cleveland Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo.

Dagmar Peckova has performed recitals at halls such as the Wiener Musikverein, Carnegie Hall New York, Wigmore Hall London, Châtelet Paris, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Brucknerhaus Linz, Gewandhaus Leipzig, in Strasbourg, Ludwigsburg and Lisbon, at the Rheingau and Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival, Carinthischer Sommer and Prager Frühling, and 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 1st 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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