Яна Бернатова

After a 1999 debut as Blonde in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Jana Bernáthová sang at the Slovak National Theatre Opera, singing the coloratura and lyric line of the repertoire: Norina, Adina, Lucia, Zerlina, the Queen of the Night, Gilda, Zerbinetta, Musetta and Oscar. Czech theatres have engaged her as a guest, Brno and Prague among them for Olympia in Les Contes d'Hoffmann, and her repertoire takes in Czech and Slovak opera and operetta as well. She was one of the international soloists engaged for the Classic Openair choral concert at Solothurn in 2009. Her teacher was Magdaléna Blahušiaková, at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. Operetta has its place as well, Adele in Die Fledermaus and Valencienne in The Merry Widow among the parts, and she sings Servilia and gives chamber recitals.