Jana Horáková Levicová

Graduating from the Plzeň Conservatory under Professor Ludmila Kotnauerová in 1997, Ms Jana Horáková Levicová was later a private student of Professor Jiří Kotouč, participating in interpretation classes of Italian mezzosoprano Gloria Banditelli. Currently she co-operated with doc. Katarína Bachmannová. From 1996 to 1998 she was a member of the J. K. Tyl Theatre in Plzeň, West Czech Republic. Since 2002 the mezzo has worked with Camerata Nova, singing in concert performances of Baroque operas such as Handel’s Rinaldo (Mago Christiano), and Samson (Micah), Astarto by G. Bononcini (Astarto); also, she performed Gluck’s Ezio (Ezio) and Mozart’s La Betulia Liberata with the Prague Symphonic Orchestra under Jakub Hrůša.

Between 2001 and 2004, her guest appearances at the Prague State Opera included Vivaldi’s Orlando furioso (Bradamante), Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (Third Lady), d’Albert’s Tiefland (Antonia), Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor (Alisa). In 2004 she received an honorary mention in the Opera Category of the Antonín Dvořák International Singing Competition in Karlovy Vary. In 2005, Ms Levicová joined the Prague State Opera, singing Third Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and the High Priestess in Aida on the tour of Japan. Her regular appearances in PSO include the Third Nymph in Dvořák’s Rusalka, Berta in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, Ines in Verdi’s Il trovatore, Fenena in Nabucco, Dorabella in Così fan tutte and Prince Orlofsky in Strauss’s Die Fledermaus (The Bat).

In spring 2005, the mezzo gave several concerts in Canada, singing opera arias by Mozart, Saint-Saëns and Rossini with the Toronto Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Kerry Stratton. Her participation in 2006 in the French Baroque Academy in Ambronay resulted in performances as Deianira in Cavalli’s Ercole amante. The singer performed this role under conductor Gabriel Garrido to great acclaim in Paris, Toulon, Reims, Vichy and Besançon. Since 2009, the mezzo has been a regular guest at the Prague National Theatre, singing Annina in Verdi’s La traviata, and the roles of Archangel Gabriel, Mother of God, Blacksmith’s Daughter, and the Foolish Virgin in The Miracles of Mary by Bohuslav Martinů, under conductor Jiří Bělohlávek. Currently the singer works with conductor Václav Luks and his Collegium 1704, singing Amore Terreno in Antonio Caldara’s oratorio Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo and Cleofe in Händel’s oratorio Resurrectione.