Jaroslava Maxová (born 6 April 1957; Jaroslava Horská, Jaroslava Horská-Maxová) is a Czech mezzo-soprano opera singer and vocal coach.
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Jaroslava Maxová was born on 6 April 1957 in Moravská Třebová, Moravia and studied singing at the Bratislava Academy in Slovakia. She made her Slovak National Opera début already during her studies and became a soloist there in 1986. She sang principal roles throughout the next eight years and since 1994 continued to do so at the Prague National Opera Theatre.
Her repertoire includes Strauss‘ Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, Offenbach’s Niklausse in Les contes d’Hoffmann, Verdi’s Amneris in Aida, Fenena in Nabucco, Maddalena in Rigoletto, Preziosilla in La forza del destino, Mozart’s Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Cherubino and Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro and Sesto in La clemenza di Tito, Rossini’s Berta in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Tchaikovsky’s Olga in Eugene Onegin, Bizet’s Mercedes in Carmen, Mascagni‘s Lola in Cavalleria rusticana, Martinů’s Filoména in Alexander Twice, Gluck’s Orpheus in Orpheus and Eurydice, Dvořák’s Witch in Rusalka and Kate in The Devil and Kate, Smetana’s Radmila in Libuše and Háta in The Bartered Bride, Handel’s Ulysses in Deidamia, Purcell’s Witch in Dido and Aeneas, Britten’s Miss Jessel in The Turn of the Screw, Janáček’s Varvara in Káťa Kabanová, Kedruta in The Excursions of Mr Brouček and Pastuchyňa (Herdswoman) in Jenůfa. Two performances deserve a special mention: Maxwell Davies' solo operas Miss Donnithorne’s Maggot and Medium.
She has sung in opera houses and concert halls in Austria, France, Germany, Holland, Italy (including a concert for Pope John Paul II), Japan, Russia, Spain, Switzerland and Turkey, under the baton of Mosche Atzmon, Jiří Bělohlávek, Oliver Dohnányi, Arpád Jóo, Zdeněk Košler, Ferenz Nagy, Andrew Parott, Sir Libor Pešek, Arturo Sacchetti, Hubert Soudant, Andreas Stöhr, Johannes Wildner and others. Her concert repertoire is also vast and varied, and it is only logical that with her experience plus a university degree in Education, she has also become a professor at the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory, and is as successful and as much in demand for her vocal coaching as for her singing.