Eva Garajová

Even as a college student she joined Chamber Opera Bratislava. During her educational stays she performed in Italy, Germany, Spain, Canada. In USA (Buffalo) she presented herself as Lucretia in Britten's opera The Rape of Lucretia.

1995 is the year of the beginning of her long term cooperation with the Prague State Opera, where she sang more than 20 characters of world opera repertoire, e. g. Bizet's Carmen, Dorabella (Mozart: Così fan tutte), Rubria (Boito: Nerone), Maddalena (Verdi: Rigoletto), Fenena (Verdi: Nabucco), Azucena (Verdi: The Troubadour), Varvara (Janáček: Káťa Kabanová). In 1995 she made her debut in the State Opera Banská Bystrica as Olga in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin.

She regularly performs with well known domestic symphonic and chamber orchestras, mainly with Slovak Philharmonic, Slovak Sinfonietta Žilina and Capella Istropolitana. She also cooperates with Czech Philharmonic, The Czech Radio Symphonic Orchestra with conductor Vladimír Válek, with Prague Philharmonia and conductor Jiří Bělohlávek, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, with ensemble Luxembourg Sinfonietta and others. In chamber music her permanent artistic partner is pianist Marián Lapšanský (since 2002).

In 2003 she was a guest artist in the gala concert of José Carreras in Bratislava with Spanish and Italian songs. She attended film recordings of the opera The Cunning Little Vixen (Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, cond. Kent Nagano) – a common project of BBC TV and Czech TV Brno Studio (2002 – 2004).

In cooperation with conductor Sir Charles Mackerras she sang in Janáček's Glagolitic Mass – first, in 2004, with Brno Philharmonic, three years later at the festival Prague Spring with Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK, and with the same orchestra at Prague Spring in 2011. In 2008 – 2010 she introduced herself to the Bratislava audience within Bratislava Music Festival.