Yukiko Kinjo

In 2000 she successfully completed her studies at the University of Ryukyu, where she also focused on singing and studying music all the time. In 2002 she won the audition of the Japanese government on scholarships for the study of singing in Italy. In Italy, she has improved at the Music Academy in Milan and since 2003 at the Conservatory in Parma near Luetta Bizzi and Eugenia Furlotti. Since 2005 she started studying with Jiří Kotouč in Prague. In 2007 and 2008 she became a laureate of the international singing competition Antonín Dvořák in Karlovy Vary, where she won the 3rd place and special prize of the Mozart, Antonín Dvořák Award for the best interpretation of his aria and the State Opera Award and the F. X. Šalda Theater in Liberec for hosting in their productions. In the summer of 2009 she actively participated in Mirelly Freni's summer singing course in Italy. In 2010 she graduated from the Prague Conservatory. In the 2012/2013 season she sang Gilda (Verdi: Rigoletto) at the South Bohemian Theater and at the Summer Festival in Český Krumlov. Since this season he has been in a permanent engagement at the National Theater in Prague. In 2014 she made her debut as a Micael at the Carmen opera at the South Bohemian Theater and then in the role of Susanna in Mozart's Market's wedding at the National Theater.