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
18
May
17:00 (2025)
Undine – Wiederaufnahme (8.6.2025)
Oper Leipzig
Leipzig
02
June
11:00 (2025)
Amadis, der Ritter
Oper Leipzig
Leipzig
Management
- Musikalische Leitung Andreas Reize
- Inszenierung Antje Thoms
- Bühne Dirk Becker
- Kostüme Lorena Diaz Stephens
- Videodesign Florian Barth
- Licht Stefan Jennerich
- Dramaturgie Kara McKechnie
Cast
- Amadis Daniel Arnaldos
- Oriane Olga Jelínková
- Arcabonne Olena Tokar
- Arcalaus Franz Xaver Schlecht
- Ardan / Der Hass Joan Vincent Hoppe
- Urgande Nora Steuerwald
- Ober-Fee Franziska Zwink
- Fee 1 Clara Steuerwald
- Fee 2 / Die Zwietracht Lena Herrmann
- PA, Ritter aus der Zukunft Paul Wenning
- PI, Ritter aus der Zukunft Pius Maria Cüppers
- Chor Chor 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.
