Veronika Hajnová

Mezzo-soprano Veronika Hajnová graduated at the conservatory VSMU in Bratislava, at the professor Luba Baricova. She also took part in several master courses both in the Czech Republic and Germany. In 2002 she went as far as the semifinal in the Belvedere International Singing Competition in Vienna and was awarded CNIPAL prize.
Already as a student she performed in the opera ensemble of The J. K. Tyl´s Theatre in Pilsen, at the beginning as a guest and in the years 2002–2004 as a member of the ensemble. She created there very significant roles such as Olga in Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky, Kate in The Devil and Kate by A. Dvorak or Charlotte in Werther by Massenet.
She was nominated for the Thalia Prize in 2003 for Delilah in the opera Samson and Delilah
by Saint-Saens. As a guest she created there the character of Joan of Arc (in the opera The Maid of Orleans by Tchaikovsky). For this role she was awarded again the nomination for Thalia Prize in 2010.
She has been a soloist of the Prague State Opera since 2004 where she has been performing namely dramatic roles. Among them are Amneris in Aida by Verdi, Azucena in The Troubadour, Fenena in Nabucco, The Witch in Rusalka by Dvorak or Carmen in the opera by Bizet. Thanks to the range of her voice she also creates characters in Mozart´s operas as Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte or Cherubino (The Marriage of Figaro). She is a frequent guest of the National Theatre in Prague and Brno and other opera houses.
She performed Amneris as well as Carmen in several tours abroad, e. g. Japan, Spain, Portugal, France, Hungary, Emirate Abu Dhabi or South Korean Soul.
She has been also singing at international and home music festivals (Festival Internazionale della Musica in Milano, festival in Gars am Kamp, Prague Spring, Smetana´s Litomysl, Janacek´s May, Chopin´s Festival in Marienbad, St. Wenceslas Music Festival in Ostrava, etc.). She is invited to cooperate with outstanding orchestras such as Czech Philharmonic, Brno Philharmonic, Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra Ostrava, Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc.
Beside opera oratorio works and songs are a part of her repertoir. First of all we have to mention the part of Zefka in Janacek´s The Diary of the One Who Disappeared which she performed both home and in the concert performance in Paris Opera Bastille in 2007 or at the international festival in Milano in 2008, the mezzo-soprano part in Verdi´s Requiem which
she interpreted with great success in the Opera Municipale in Marseille under the chief conductor Diederich, songs by Schumann and Chopin which she presented at the Chopin
Festival in Marienbad, or Mahler´s Songs on the Death of Children which she studied with
the Italian conductor A. Scarano and after their succesful presentation at the Festival of Forbidden Music in Terezín Veronica Hajnova presented them in Italy in 2013.
Recently Veronica Hajnova has presented herself as Mignon in a concert performance of this
opera by Ambroise Thomas in the Prague State Opera. Her newest role is Mélisande in Debussy´s opera Pelléas et Mélisande in the National Theatre Prague.