8 September 2020 |
Opera
Alexander Kaimbacher in Fidelio for the first time in Košice
In the first opera performance of the new theater season you will see two interesting guests from Austria on Wednesday 9 September at 19:00 on the stage of the Historical Building of the Košice State Theater. Austrian tenors Eugene Amesmannin Florestan and Alexander Kaimbacher in Jaquin for the first time in Košice will perform in…
7 September 2020 |
Opera
The Unforgettable "Oscar" Director Jiří Menzel Has Passed Away. He Left Falstaff in Košice
The sad news came from Prague over the weekend. On Saturday, September 5, in the evening, the Czech Oscar-winning director Jiří Menzel passed away at the age of 82. It was at the State Theater in Košice that he created his last directorial theatrical "work" three years ago, when he prepared a production of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Falstaff with the opera ensemble, which is one of the most…
4 September 2020 |
Opera
Edita Gruberová in the Slovak Theater After More than Fifty Years
The November premiere of opera by Gaetano Donizzeti Roberto Devereux will be an exceptional event. World-known coloratura soprano Edita Gruberová will perform the main role of English Queen Elizabeth I. She will be back in the Slovak theater after more than fifty years.  You can see it in the first premiere in the…
26 August 2020 |
Opera
Congratulations to Mária Adamcová on the Beautiful Anniversary
On Wednesday, August 26, the long-term soloist of the opera of the Košice State Theater, mezzo-soprano Mária Adamcová, will celebrate a beautiful jubilee of ninety years. The native of Važec started as a singer in SĽUK. She came to the opera ensemble in Košice in 1955 and until her retirement in 1991, she played dozens of opera and operetta characters. The Košice State Theater is joining a number…
7 August 2020 |
Opera
Twenty Years Ago, Ružena Kustrová Died
On Friday, August 7, twenty years passed since the death of the Slovak opera and operetta singer, the mezzo-soprano Ružena Kustrová, the longtime soloist of the State Theatre in Košice in 1945 — 1980. In a photo from the operetta Wine Harvest from 1958 on the right along with her daughter Božena Hanáková. Read more about her in the article by Elena Blahová - Martišová on the portal operaslovakia.…
24 July 2020 |
Opera
Decades with the Theater of Jubilee Viera Hronská
The State Theater in Košice is joining the well-wishers who wished all the best to beautiful life jubilee of longtime opera soloist Viera Hronská on Friday, July 24, 2020. She joined the stage of the State Theater in Košice as a member of the ensemble almost sixty years ago and she still works in the backstage as the opera stage designer. With breaks and a few short times in opera in Banská…