In 2008/09 Slovakian mezzo-soprano Jolana Fogasova will sing in a new production of Janacek’s Makropoulos Case at the Teatro alle Scala Milano and concerts with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra under Mario Venzago, with whom she already worked with the MDR Symphony Orchestra Leipzig. In 2008 she gave her role debuts as Marina in Boris Godunov und the title role of a new production of Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia at the National Theatre Bratislava. At the 125^th anniversary celebration of the National Theatre Prague she performed a gala concert, appeared then with the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie as Eglantine in concert performances of Weber’s Euryan-the at the Kölner Philharmonie and the Palais des Beaux Arts Bruxelles and was heard at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna as Judith in Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle.

 

In the previous seasons she sang the title role in a new production of Massenet's Cherubin at Teatro Lirico Cagliari, appeared as Amneris in a new production of Aida at National Theatre Prague and made her role debuts as Eboli in Don Carlo, Carmen and Judith in Bratislava. Important concert commitments took her to the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, the Philharmonie München and the Gewandhaus Leipzig. In the Dvorak-year 2004 she sang a concert performance of Rusalka at the Bayerischer Rundfunk and Biblical Songs at the Norddeutscher Rundfunk. She performed Dvorak’s Stabat mater at the opening concerts of the Rheingau Musik Festival and participated at the National Theatre Prague in a new production of Dvorak’s Vanda, which was also shown at the Wiener Festwochen.

 

Moreover Jolana Fogasova sang the Fox in Cunning Little Vixen at the National Theatre Prague, Teatro Sao Carlos Lisbon and Teatro Colon Buenos Aires, Eglantine in Euryanthe at the Teatro Lirico Cagliari, the title role in the new production of Tchaikovsky’s Maid of Orleans in Bratislava, Olga in Eugene Onegin at the Opéra de Lille and the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, and she appeared in the concert version of R. Strauss’ Die Liebe der Danae at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

 

In concert, Jolana Fogasova has worked with renowned orchestras such as Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Genève, Bamberger Symphoniker, Münchner Philharmoniker and Rundfunkorchester, Radio Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg and has performed at the Festival Radio France Montpellier, the Bregenzer Festspielen and the Brucknerfest Linz. She has sung under the baton of renowned conductors such as Gerd Albrecht, Jiri Belohlavek, John Fiore, Janos Fürst, Leopold Hager, Jan Latham-König, Fabio Luisi, Tomas Netopil, Jonathan Nott, Marcello Viotti, Edo de Waart and Hugh Wolff.

 

Jolana Fogasova studied singing at the Bratislava University. She took part in master-classes with Carlo Bergonzi in Sienna and received a scholarship from the George London-Funds of the Association of Friends of the Wiener Staatsoper. While a student, she was already engaged by the Slovakian National Theatre in Bratislava.

 

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