Hana Jonasova

Background

Hana is the daughter of internationally renowned opera singer Jana Jonášová.

Education

She studied under her mother at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.

Career

A coloratura soprano, she is currently a principal artist at the Prague State Opera. While still a student she began performing in roles at the opera house in Ústí nad Labem. In May 2003 she portrayed the title heroine in the Czechoslovakian premiere of Scott Joplin"s ragtime opera Treemonisha.

Her other roles with the company include both Despina and Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, the First Lady in The Magic Flute, Gilda in Rigoletto, Rosina in The Barber of Seville, Sussana in The Marriage of Figaro, and Zerlina in Don Giovanni.

She also has appeared with the company in numerous Czechoslovakian operas by Smetana, Dvořák, Janáček and Martinů. On the concert stage, Jonášová has sung in concert with all of the major Czechoslovakian symphony orchestras and recorded works for Czechoslovakian television and Czechoslovakian Radio.

She has also appeared in concerts with orchestras in Belgium, China, Denmark, England, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg, Poland, and Russia. She recently toured Japan with violinist Gabriela Demeterová and the Czechoslovakian Philharmonic Collegium.

Achievements

• She notably won second prize at the Golden Prague Festival, for her performance in Bohuslav Martinů"s Les larmes du couteau (The Tears of a Knife).

Membership

Foreign the past decade she has been a regular performer at the National Theatre as a member of the Prague State Opera.