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Dana Šťastná

Biography

Mezzo-soprano Dana Št'astná debuted at the National Theatre Opera in the 2021/2022 season as Mercedes (Carmen). She graduated from the Pardubice Conservatoire and the Academy of Music in Prague and attended masterclasses with José Cura and Brigitte Fassbaender in Prague, with Edita Gruberova at the Richard Strauss Festival in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and with Regine Köbler and Berndt Weikl at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna. In May 2010 she made her debut at the F. X. Šalda Theatre in Liberec as Mercedes and then as Luigia (Viva la mamma). On this stage, she has also created the roles of Man Friday (Offenbach: Robinson Crusoe), Dulcinea (Don Quichotte), Prince Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus), Flora (La traviata) and Fenena (Nabucco). In the State Theatre Košice she performed Suzuki (Madama Butterfly), in the Silesian Theatre Opava she sang Dorabella (Così fan tutte) and in the Moravian Theatre in Olomouc, she performed Maddalena (Rigoletto), Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), the Second Lady (Die Zauberflöte) and Baruška in Rudolf Piskáček's operetta The Pearls of the Virgin Seraphina. Dana Št'astná is the winner of the 2nd prize of the International Antonín Dvořák Vocal Competition in Karlovy Vary.