Education
She studied at the Prague Conservatoire.
She studied at the Prague Conservatoire.
Her operatic debut was in the title role of Katya Kabanova in Ostrava in 1949. In the early 1950s she was engaged in Vienna, and sang Elisabeth in Don Carlos and the Kostelnicka in Jenůfa under Mackerras. In East Berlin she was heard as Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier.
From 1965 she sang in Bayreuth, appearing as Gutrune, Venus, Kundry, Ortrud and Brunnhilde, the latter role also being sung at Covent Garden under Solti, where she later sang Isolde under Colin Davis.
Dvořáková sang at various opera houses including the Metropolitan Her husband was the conductor Rudolf Vašata, a pupil of Václav Talich, who she met in Ostrava, and with whom she recorded an LP of Wagner operatic excerpts.
She was Gutrune on the Böhm recording of Götterdämmerung in 1967. She retired in 1985.