Kateřina Kněžíková makes her Royal Opera debut with these performances of Dvorak’s The Spectre’s Bride. A long-time resident artist at the Prague National Opera, she appears regularly with all the Czech and Slovakian opera houses, and further afield at La Monnaie Brussels, Opéra Royal de Versailles, Opéra de Dijon, and many others.
She has developed naturally into the lyric repertoire, notably as Rusalka (Dvořák), Mařenka (Smetana’s The Bartered Bride), Martinů’s Julietta and Gounod’s Marguerite, and made role debuts in the iconic title role of Smetana’s Libuse, and as the Fox in Janacek’s Cunning Little Vixen.
In the 24/25 season she made her US debut at New York’s legendary Carnegie Hall, in Janacek’s Glagolitic Mass with the Czech Philharmonic and Semyon Bychkov, returned to Glyndebourne Festival Opera as Káťa Kabanová, made her role debut as Janacek’s Jenufa at the Prague National Opera, and released her newest solo recording ‘Tag und Nacht’ on Supraphon, combining Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra with selected lieder, accompanied on the piano by Jakub Hrusa. She also sang signature roles with the Prague National Opera including Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Mimi in La Boheme, and Micaela in Carmen. Kateřina’s core symphonic repertoire includes Dvořák’s Requiem, Svatá Ludmila and Stabat Mater, Martinů’s Epic of Gilgamesh and Magic Nights, Brahms’ German Requiem, Mahler’s symphonies 2, 4 and 8, Ravel’s Shéherezade, with orchestras including the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Wiener Symphoniker, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, London Philharmonic Orchestra and Camerata Salzburg.
