Marie Fajtová

Soprano Marie Fajtová studied piano at the Prague Conservatory and then opera singing with professor Jiří Kotouč. He is currently improving with the American soprano Nancy Henninger. In 2004, she became a finalist in the Antonín Dvořák International Singing Competition, where she received the prize of the Symphony Orchestra Prague FOK, in 2008 she won the main prize in the Barbara Hendricks International Singing Competition in Strasbourg. In the 2005/2006 season, she was a member of the J.K. Tyl Theater in Pilsen, and since the 2006/2007 season, she has been a soloist at the National Theater Opera in Prague. It was with this ensemble that she performed many times abroad, for example in Japan, Germany, Tallinn in Estonia or L'Opéra Royal de Versailles in France. In the years 2007–2011, she was a guest at the Prague State Opera and performed as Mozart's Donna Anna at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste. Marie Fajtová also gave concerts in many European and Asian countries and collaborated with important conductors such as Jiří Bělohlávek, Tomáš Netopil, Asher Fish, Kari Tikka and Gianluigi Gelmetti. An important part of her artistic work is baroque music, especially in collaboration with the ensembles Capella Regia Praha, Collegium Marianum, Collegium 1704 and Camerata Nova. The most notable are the roles of Alcina in Handel's opera of the same name for the festival in Valtice, Serpina in La serva padrona for the International Music Festival Český Krumlov and, above all, Primislao in the baroque pasticcio Praga nascente da Libussa e Primislaona Prague Spring 2004. As a performer, she also participated in the album Pensive Songsz in 2009 and the internationally awarded recording of the Il diamante sonata by composer Jan Dismas Zelenka.