Marie Fajtová
Winner of the Grand Prize at the Barbara Hendriks International Singing Competition in Strasbourg.
Soloist of the National Theatre Opera in Prague
She studied piano at the Prague Conservatory (1992–1998) with Professor Jan Novotný and then opera singing with Professor Jiří Kotouč (1998–2003).
She also studied with American soprano Nancy Henninger and world-renowned singer Christa Ludwig. She has completed many world and European tours with major orchestras. She sang for King Charles III of Great Britain, King Norodom Sihamoni of Cambodia, the Dalai Lama of Tibet, and also Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17 astronaut, visitor to the Moon).
In 2004, she became a finalist in the Antonín Dvořák International Singing Competition, where she received the Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK award.
In 2008, she won the main prize at the Barbara Hendricks International Singing Competition in Strasbourg.
In the 2005/2006 season she was a member of the J. K. Tyl Theatre in Pilsen, where she portrayed Norina (Donizetti: Don Pasquale) and Fiordiligi (Mozart: Così fan tutte).
Since the 2006/2007 season, she has been a soloist at the National Theatre Opera in Prague. Here she has added other major roles to her repertoire, such as Mozart's Donna Elvira and Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Susanna and the Countess (The Marriage of Figaro), Pamina (The Magic Flute) and Arminda (La finta giardiniera) or Violetta (Verdi: La traviata), Frasquita (Bizet: Carmen), Armida (Handel: Rinaldo), Adina (Donizetti: The Elixir of Love), Antonia (Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann), Penelope (Britten: Gloriana), Eurydice (Gluck: Orpheus and Eurydice), Karolina (Smetana: The Two Widows) and Bellini's Norma. In 2007-2011, she was a guest at the Prague State Opera (Violetta).
For several seasons she was a regular guest at the Estonian National Opera in Tallinn, as Marguerite (Gounod: Faust), at the Finnish National Opera and at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste.
Abroad, she appeared on the National Theatre's tour in Japan as Susanna, Pamina and the Countess, as Violetta in Regensburg and Mannheim, Germany, and Donna Anna in Magdeburg.
She performed in Finland and France in the title role of Pergolesi's opera La serva padrona. She successfully toured France with the National Theatre Opera's production of Rinaldo in Caen, Rennes, Luxembourg and L'Opéra Royal de Versailles.
A significant part of her artistic activity is baroque music, especially in collaboration with the ensembles Capella Regia Praha, Collegium Marianum, Collegium 1704 and Camerata Nova. In 2006 she created the title role in Handel's Alcina for the Valtice Festival and sang Serpina in La serva padrona at the Český Krumlov International Music Festival. She also performed as Angelica (Vivaldi: Orlando furioso) and Agenore (Bononcini: Astarto) and at the 2004 Prague Spring International Music Festival she performed as Primislao in the baroque pasticccia Praga nascente da Libussa e Primislao.
In 2014, she performed again at the Prague Spring; together with the Wihan Quartet, she performed a composition by the prominent contemporary composer Jan Klusák, La jolie rousse.
She performs in concerts with, among others, the Czech Philharmonic, PKF, PKO, the Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK and others. She has collaborated with prominent conductors such as Jiří Bělohlávek, Jiří Kout, Tomáš Netopil, Asher Fish, Michel Schwierczewski, Ondrej Lenárd, Charles Olivieri Munroe, Enrico Dovico, Kari Tikka and Gianluigi Gelmetti. She has given concerts in many European countries (Spain, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, etc.), in Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan, Brunei, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand and in the African Ceuta.
In 2009, Arco Diva released the song album Pensive Songs (K. Slavický, A. Dvořák, B. Martinů, R. Strauss). She participated in the internationally awarded recording of Jan Dismas Zelenka's Serenade ZWV 177 Il diamante (Nibiru, 2009).
Opera repertoire
Composer - Opera - Part
Caldara La Contessa de´ Numi Apollo
Bellini Norma Norma
Bizet Carmen Frasquita
Britten Gloriana Penelope
Bononcini Astarto Agenore
Donizetti Don Pasquale Norina
Donizetti Nápoj lásky Adina
Gounod Faust a Markétka Markétka
Händel Alcina Alcina
Händel Rinaldo Armida
Leoncavallo I Pagliacci Nedda
Martinů Řecké pašije Despinio
Mozart Così fan tutte Fiordiligi
Mozart Die Zauberflöte Pamina
Mozart Don Giovanni Donna Anna
Mozart Don Giovanni Donna Elvira
Mozart La finta giardiniera Arminda
Mozart Le nozze di Figaro Hraběnka
Mozart Le nozze di Figaro Susanna
Pergolesi La serva padrona Serpina
Puccini Bohéma Musetta
Puccini Gianni Schicchi Lauretta
Smetana Hubička Barče
Smetana Libuše 1. žnec
Smetana Prodaná nevěsta Esmeralda
Verdi La traviata Violetta
Verdi Rigoletto Gilda
Verdi Maškarní ples Oscar
Vivaldi Orlando furioso Angelica
Concert repertoire
Skladatel Dílo Part
Brixi Missa pastoralis in D
Brixi Missa brevis in B
Brixi Dies irae c moll
Carissimi Historia di Jephte Historicus
Couperin Leçons de ténèbres 2. soprán
Dvořák Biblické písně
Dvořák Svatební košile
Dvořák Mše D dur
Dvořák Te Deum
Händel Messiah
Händel Neun deutsche Arien
Haydn Die sieben letzten Worte des unseres
Erlösers
Haydn Die Schöpfung
Haydn Arianna a Naxos
Mozart Requiem (KV 626)
Mozart Krönungsmesse (KV 317)
Mozart Missa in C minor (KV 427) 1. a 2. soprán
Mozart Vesperae de Dominica C dur (KV 321)
Mozart Grabmusik (KV42)
Mozart Davidde penitente (KV 469)
Mozart Exsultate, jubilate (KV 165)
Mozart Lieder
Mozart Basta, vincesti (KV 486a)
Mozart Ch'io mi scordi di te (KV 505)
Mozart Bella mia fiamma (KV 528)
Orff Carmina burana
Pergolesi Stabat Mater
Ryba Česká mše vánoční
Ryba Stabat Mater
Schumann Frauenliebe und Leben (op. 42)
Strauss, R. Allerseelen
Strauss, R. Hoffen und wieder verzagen
Strauss, R. Zueignung
Strauss, R. Vier letzte Lieder
Vivaldi Gloria