Career
The wife of composer Josef Bohuslav Foerster, she met him while appearing at the Hamburg State Opera. She created the role of Desdemona in the Czechoslovakian premiere of Giuseppe Verdi"s Otello, and sang Tatiana in the Czechoslovakian premiere of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky"s Eugene Onegin. She also appeared in the world premiere of Antonín Dvořák"s The Jacobin.