Eva Dřízgová-Jirušová

Eva Dřízgová-Jirušová is a sought-after singer of opera and concert repertoire. She is a long-time soloist of the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in Ostrava and a regular guest of foremost opera houses in the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic. She regularly performs with the best Czech symphony orchestras including Czech Philharmonic, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Brno Philharmonic, Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra Ostrava and many others. Her vocal and technical disposition enables her to embrace a very wide repertoire in operatic as well as cantata, oratory and song works, notwithstanding the symphonic works by Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler. Thanks to her musicality she is also a sought-after artist for contemporary music. She has performed in almost all European countries but also in Japan where she introduced herself among others in the title role of Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen in the Japanese premiere of this opera with Tokyo Symphonic Orchestra. In 2003 she cooperated with Teatro Alla Scala in the same role. One of the most important roles in her repertoire is Rusalka (National Theatre Prague, National Theatre Brno, National Moravian-Silesian Theatre, Český Krumlov, Loket, Karlsruhe, L’Opera di Roma). She regularly performs with prestigious foreign orchestras (Munich Philharmonic, Kölner Philharmonie, Göthenburg Symphony Orchestra, Odense Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic etc.). In 1996 she was awarded by a prestigious award Thalia for the best women’s performance in opera in the role of Mimi in Puccini’s La Bohéme and in 1998 she won the same prize for the title role in Debussy’s Pelleas et Melisande. She cooperates with Czech Television and Czech Radio. Since 2000 she has been teaching singing at the Janáček Conservatory in Ostrava and since 2008 also at Department of the solo singing at the University of Ostrava.