Jolana Fogašová

Jolana Fogašová, soprano, began her career as a mezzo-soprano, but her vocal range, singing technique and artistic potential logically directed her repertoire towards the soprano section in later years. After her studies, she took performance courses with C. Bergonzi in Siena, Italy, and received a scholarship from the Friends of the State Opera Club in Vienna.

Currently, she focuses on “soprano spinto d'agilita” type characters: Tosca, Manon Lescaut, Eglantine (Euryanta), Lucrezia Contarini (Due Foscari), Abigaille (Nabucco), Joan of Arc (The Maid of Orleans), Elsa (Lohengrin), Judith (The Castle of Prince Bluebeard), Santuzza (The Peasant's Honour), Salome, Venus (Tannhäuser), Marina Mnisek (Boris Godunov), Lucrezia Borgia (Lucrezia Borgia), The Churchwoman (Her Pastor), Ježibaba and the Foreign Priestess (Rusalka), The Fox (The Tales of the Vixen Vixen), and Kristina (The Makropulos Thing), which she sang in the production at Teatro alla Scalla, Milan, and Teatro Maggio Musicale, Florence, under the baton of Zubin Mehta.

In her operatic and concert performances she has collaborated with outstanding conductors: Z. Mehta, F. Luisi, P. Boulez, L. Hager, J. Latham-Konig, J. Svetlanov, N. Bareza, Zhang Guoyong, M. Letonja, E. Villaume, O. Kazushi, E. de Waart, F. Haider, J. Mercier, J. Kovács, J. Bělohlávek, M. Venzago, S.A. Reck , J. Fiore, I. Fischer, O. Lenárd, S. Lano, A. Eschwé, R. Štúr, L. Langrée, G. Korsten, H. Wolf, B. Gregor, A. Ligeti and others.

She has performed in Argentina, Belgium, Czech Republic, China, France, Holland, Croatia, Japan, Lithuania, Latvia, Hungary, Germany, Portugal, Austria, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Turkey, etc.

She has collaborated with a number of major orchestras: Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Symphoniker, Münchner Philharmoniker, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Suisse Romande, Orchestra Sinfonica dell' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestre Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, MDR Sinfonieorchester, Slovak Philharmonic, Matáv Hungarian Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Orchestre National Bordeaux - Aquitaine, Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hessische Rundfunk Orchester, Nord Nederlands Orchestra, Orchestre National dIle de France, Dusseldorfer Symphoniker, Orchestra del Teatro Verdi Trieste, Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Picardie and others.

In December 2011 she appeared in concert alongside José Carerras. Later she collaborated with Prof. J. Loibl in Munich.

In cooperation with the Slovak Philharmonic and conductor Rastislav Štúr she made a CD recording of arias in 2000, a CD Lullabies (chamber arrangement of world lullabies, 2002) and with conductor G. Korsten, Weber's opera Euryanthe (Italy, 2003).