Jana Kurucová

Jana Kurucová was born in Kezmarok (Slovakia). At the age of fourteen she started her music education in church music,composition, organ, orchestra conducting and singing at the Conservatory J. L. Bellu in Banská Bystrica. In 2002 she received a grant for the University for Music and Drama in Graz and made her operatic debut in The magic Flute (Second Lady) and La Finta Giardiniera (Ramiro). In the season 2005/2006 she became a member of the Young Artists Program of the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. From 2005 to2009 she had been a part of ensemble of the Theater Heidelberg and interpreted the roles of Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Charlotte (Werther), Sesto (La clemenza di Tito), Idamante (Idomeneo), Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Ramiro (Montezuma), Megacle (L'Olimpiade), Lucio (Tito Manlio). Since the season 2009/2010 she is a member of the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where she sang in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Le Nozze di Figaro. She furthermore performed as Fenena in Nabucco, Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel, Flora in La Traviata, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Mélisande in Pelléas et Mélisande. In the season 2011/2012 she had a great personal success in the role of Cherubino at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin as well as at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Siviglia under the musical guide of Pedro Halffter, and in Karlsruhe. In the role of Idamante in Idomeneo was she at the National Theater of Prag. 2012/13 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin she sung the role of Fuchs in Das Schlaue Füchslein, Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, Maffio Orsini in Lucrezia Borgia (alongside Edita Gruberová), Fenena in Nabucco, Meg Page in Falstaff, Zerlina in Don Giovanni in Berlin and at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari (conductor: Roberto Abbado). This present season 2013/14 she made her successful debut as Cherubino/LE NOZZE DI FIGARO at the Opera in Beijing, and recently her most successful as Donna Elvira/DON GIOVANNI at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and at the Opera Oslo, as well as an outstanding role debut, enthousiastically acclaimed by press and audience, as Romeo in Bellini's I CAPULETI E I MONTECCHI on the occasion of a concert performance of that title within the Klangfestival Dortmund, followed by her equally successful debut at the Semperoper Dresden as Rosina/IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA. In addition to her further performances at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. In 2014/15 she sang her first Elisabetta/MARIA STUARDA in Ostrava, as well as CARMEN (title role) and Donna Elvira/DON GIOVANNI in Prague and Bratislava. In future seasons her debuts at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Dorabella/COSI FAN TUTTE as well as Urbain/LES HUGUENOTS (alongside Juan Diego Florez) is already confirmed, projects for further debuts (such as Komponist/ARIADNE AUF NAXOS as well as Oktavian/DER ROSENKAVALIER are 'in working progress'. Reviews: Jana Kurucová vyskloňovala tému lásky Ďalší naozaj veľký slovenský hlas