Olga Jelínková
"Opera singer"
Olga Jelínková, who has been a member of the Oper Leipzig since the 2020/2021 season, regularly performs in Prague as Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto, in the title role of his La Traviata, and in the double role of Thalia/Folie in the baroque opera Platée by J.P. Rameau.
In Leipzig, she has appeared in roles such as Lortzing’s Undine, Handel’s Cleopatra, Mozart’s Donna Anna, Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Verdi’s Violetta Valéry, Musetta in Puccini’s La Bohème, the First Lady in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, and Sophie in Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier.
In the 2024/25 season, she will debut the role of Oriane in J.Ch. Bach’s Amadis, der Ritter, and she is also preparing for her debut as Contessa de Folleville in Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims.
Schedule
Olga Jelínková
19
April
19:00 (2025)
Il viaggio a Reims
Oper Leipzig
Leipzig
Management
- Musikalische Leitung Matthias Foremny
- Inszenierung Daisy Evans
- Movement Director Matthew Forbes
- Bühne Martina Segna
- Kostüme Loren Elstein
- Licht Jake Wiltshire
- Dramaturgie Kara McKechnie
Cast
- Corinna Olena Tokar
- Marquise Melibea Gabrielė Kupšytė
- Gräfin von Folleville Olga Jelínková
- Madame Cortese Franziska Krötenheerdt
- Chevalier Belfiore Daniel Arnaldos
- Graf von Libenskof Anton Rositskii
- Lord Sidney Giorgi Manoshvili
- Don Profondo Sejong Chang
- Baron von Trombonok Peter Dolinšek
- Don Alvaro Franz Xaver Schlecht
- Don Prudenzio Randall Jakobsh
- Don Luigino Jongwoo Hong
- Delia Clara Steuerwald
- Maddalena Nina Schumertl
- Modestina Rosamond Thomas
- Modestina Annika Westlund
- Zefirino Einar Dagur Jónsson
- Antonio Markus Auerbach
- Antonio Tom Nicholson
- Chor Chor der Oper Leipzig
- Komparserie Komparserie der Oper Leipzig
- Orchester Gewandhausorchester
Olga Jelínková
"Unique voice"
Coloratura soprano Olga Jelínková has a unique voice using outstanding technique and extent. She has won many singing competitions – she was awarded the first place at the Antonin Dvorak’s International Singing Competition in Karlovy Vary in November 2011. She regularly performs on every Czech opera scene in leading lyric roles such as The Queen of the Night, Constance or Madam Herz by Mozart, Gilda and Nanetta by Verdi, Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti etc. Since season 2018/2019 Olga Jelínková is involved with Staatstheater in Saarbrücken.
