Lucie Hájková

Biography

Lucie Hájková has been soloist of the National Theatre in Prague since 2020/21 season. On this stage, she debuted as the Second Nymph (Dvořák: Rusalka) in May 2009. She has also collaborated with the J. K. Tyl Theatre in Plzeň, the F. X. Šalda Theatre in Liberec, the Chamber Opera Prague and the National Theatre Brno where she has portrayed Duchess (Adés: Powder her face), Clemense (Saariaho: L'Amour de loin), Countess (Le nozze di Figaro), Liù (Turandot), Sœur Geneviève (Suor Angelica), Berta (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Frau Flut (Nikolai: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor), Agafja (Martinů: The Marriage), the Foreign Princess (Dvořák: Rusalka), Wanda (Nedbal: Polish Blood), Giulietta (Les contes d‘Hoffmann), Libuše (Smetana: Libuše), among others. She has also appeared at numerous concerts in the Czech Republic and abroad (at the Cairo Opera House in Egypt, in Germany, Austria and Spain, and within tours of Japan). She has often performed contemporary vocal music too. She recorded the Czech composer Luboš Sluka’s cycle Love Songs for Czech Radio, and with the Zemlinsky Quartet and members of the Pražák Quartet she recorded Zemlinsky’s Maiblumen blühten überall for soprano and string sextet (Praga Digitals). Lucie Hájková studied at the Prague Conservatoire and the Academy of Music in Prague, under the tutelage of Naděžda Kniplová and attended many master classes. She is a laureate of several competitions including the Antonín Dvořák International Singing Competition in Karlovy Vary.