Ester Pavlů

Biography

The Czech mezzo-soprano Ester Pavlů is a regular guest of the National Theatre Opera in Prague. She made her debut at the State Opera Prague in 2011 as Laura in Carl Maria von Weber’s Die drei Pintos and at the National Theatre  in 2022 in the title role of Bizet’s Carmen. She graduated from the Academy of Music in Prague under the guidance of Helena Kaupová. Moreover, she attended masterclasses led by Aprile Millo, Peter Dvorský, Eva Randová, Bojidar Nikolov, Gabriela Beňačková and José Cura, recently her teacher is Vladimír Chmelo. In 2019, she made her debut in Sofia, Bulgaria as Angelina in Rossini’s Cinderella, at the Slovak National Theatre she debuted as the Foreign Princess (Dvořák: Rusalka), and with the Slovak Philharmonic she performed the role of Brängene in the concert version of Act 2 of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. In 2022, she made her debut in Basel as Santuzza (Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana), and in 2023, she debuted in Riga, Latvia as Eboli (Verdi: Don Carlo) as well as at the Theater an der Wien as the Queen (Weinberger: Schwanda the Bagpiper), with which she had previously guested in Graz, Austria. She has several recordings to her credit, including Love Song by J. B. Foerster. The recording of the Martinů’s opera What Men Live By, conducted by Jiří Bělohlávek, in which she created the role of the Old Woman, was nominated for the International Opera Award and won the Czech Anděl Award in the classical music category.