Soloist
Moniká Jägerova
Alto Monika Jägerová studied singing with Pavla Zumrová and attended masterclasses with Emma Kirkby, Chantal Santon Jeffery, Deda Cristina Colonna, Markéta Cukrová and Lorenzo Charoy. She also studied violin at the Jan Deyl Conservatory in Prague and musicology at Charles University, specialising in 17th and 18th century music and cultural analysis of music. Her doctoral studies at the University of Leipzig focussed on the history of opera and political representation in the Habsburg monarchy in the 19th century.
In 2017, she made her debut on the Czech opera stage as Mrs Quickly (»Falstaff«) at the Silesian Theatre in Opava. She also sang La zia principessa (»Suor Angelica«), Zita (»Gianni Schicchi«) and Old Slovakian Woman (»Fate«) at the Moravian-Silesian National Theatre in Ostrava, Mrs Baggot (»The Little Sweep«) at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste and Third Nymph (»Rusalka«) at the National Opera Bergen in a production by La Fura dels Baus. In 2022, she made her debut at the National Theatre in Brno as Bradamante (»Alcina«), sang the same role at the Opéra Royal du Château de Versailles and reached the semi-finals of the Stanisław Moniuszko International Singing Competition in Warsaw. She then appeared as the Third Nymph at the Rudolfinum in Prague with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra under Semjon Byčkov, as Kastelánka (Křička’s »Spook in the Castle«) and Barbara/Sofie Petrovna (Krása’s »Betrothal in a Dream«) at the Moravian-Silesian National Theatre, as the Second Squire and Voice from on High (»Parsifal«) with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra under Edward Gardner, as Teodata (Handel’s »Flavio«) at the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival and at the Musiktheater an der Wien, as Radmila (Smetana’s »Libuše«) under Robert Jindra at the National Theatre in Ostrava and as the Third Nymph and as Sasha in the world premiere of Ľubica Čekovská’s »Here I am, Orlando« under Robert Kružík at the National Theatre in Brno.
As a passionate interpreter of early music, Monika Jägerová has also worked with ensembles such as Collegium 1704, Czech Ensemble Baroque, Hof-musici, Ensemble Damian and Ensemble Tourbillon. She performed Curtio (Giannettini’s »Claudio Nerone«) and Timante (Hasse’s »Demofoonte«) at the Castle Baroque Theatre in Český Krumlov, for which she was nominated for the »Thalia Prize 2019«. She sang Gloria (Vivaldi’s »La Gloria e Imeneo«) and Giove (Dittersdorf’s »Il tribunale di Giove«) at the Olomouc Baroque Festival and Ascalax in Telemann’s »Orfeo« in Vadstena (Sweden).