Stanislava Jirků

Biography

Stanislava Jirků made her debut at the National Theatre Opera in February 2005 as the Medium in Peter Maxwell Davies' eponymous monodrama at the Kolowrat Theatre. Since the 2005/2006 season she has been a soloist at the National Theatre Opera, where she has created number of roles including Mercedes (Carmen), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Cherubino and Marcellina (Le nozze di Figaro), Frances (Gloriana), Tisbe (Cenerentola), Goffredo (Rinaldo), etc. She successfully guest starred in the production of Rinaldo also at the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, in Caen, Rennes and Versailles. Stanislava Jirků graduated from the Teplice Conservatoire under Jitka Slavíčková and the Academy of Music in Prague under Ivan Kusnjer. She has also performed at the National Theatre Brno, F.X. Šalda Theatre in Liberec and the North Bohemian Theatre in Ústí nad Labem. As a keen concert singer, she has collaborated with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, with the BBC Orchestra in London under the baton of Jiří Bělohlávek (as Ludmila in a concert performance of The Bartered Bride; the concert was recorded for Harmonia Mundi), with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, with the Collegium 1704 and with many other orchestras and chamber ensembles. She has performed at the Smetana Litomyšl Festival (including Beethoven's Symphony No. 9) and the Prague Spring Festival (Arvo Pärt's St. John Passion), and has given concerts abroad in Spain, Germany, Holland and France.

Photo: Ivan Kocánek