A distinctive voice, appearance, nature and strong opinions. Dagmar Pecková is a world-renowned Czech mezzo-soprano who has also performed at Carnegie Hall in New York. She made her name in Czechia for playing Carmen in a National Theatre production in Prague. It won her Czechia's most prestigious Thalia Award in 2000.
During her career, she has performed in numerous opera and concert halls around the world, such as the State Operas in Berlin, Munich and Hamburg, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Paris National Opera, the Opernhaus in Zürich, Covent Garden in London, the San Francisco Opera and the Semper Opera in Dresden.
Besides opera, she also has an outstanding song repertoire, particularly the work of Gustav Mahler. She shone as Preziosilla in Verdi's Force of Destiny, Varvara in Janáček's Káťa Kabanová, and The Fox in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen. In Prague’s National Theatre, she made a guest appearance as Siebel in Faust, Chérubin in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, Suzuki in Puccini’s Madam Butterfly and starred in two roles as Ježibaba and the Foreign Princess in Dvořák’s beautiful opera Rusalka.
She lives in both Germany and Czechia, and you might encounter her in Spořilov, Prague’s villa district, as she jogs around the lake, or you can visit the towns of Chrudim and Pardubice at the Zlatá Pecka music festival, of which she is the main face. The eighth annual festival spans an impressive fourteen days and starts on 25 August.
