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The Czech soprano, Eva Kývalová (Eva Esterková) graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (2012-2017) in the class of Dr. Helena Kaupová and completed a six-month internship at The Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester with Susan Roper. She participated in a number of master-classes, in which she collaborated with distinguished singers, teachers and coaches such as Edda Moser, Susan Bullock, Gabriela Beňačková, Kateřina Kněžíková, Adam Plachetka, Markéta Cukrová, Bojidar Nikolov, Eva Randov"a, Peter Valentovič, Ewa Biegas, Paul Wynne Griffiths and many others.
Eva Kývalová's theatrical beginnings date back to 2012, when she guest-starred at the Moravian Theatre Olomouc as Eliška Pomořanská in the popular musical Night at Karlštejn. She was also invited to guest star at the F.X. Šalda for the role of the First Lady in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. She could be heard in the North Bohemian Theatre in Ústí nad Labem in several roles - Leila in The Pearl Hunters by Georges Bizet, Esmeralda in The Bartered Bride, Eliška Pomořanská in the musical The Night at Karlštejn, Blonda in W.A. Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, or in Carl Zeller’s very popular operetta The Birdman, where Eva sings the main role of the postmistress Christel.
In the 2017-2018 season, Eva Kývalová made her debut at the National Theatre in Prague in the role of Barbarina in a new production of W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro (February 2017) On the festive occasion of the anniversary of the Republic, she staged the National Theatre’s production of Bedřich Smetana’s opera Libuše. At the Estates Theatre, she is also guest starring as Zerlina in W.A. Mozart's opera Don Giovanni. Her most recent engagement is a guest appearance at the Slovak National Theatre, where she has staged the mono-opera Anna Frankova by G. Frida and Belinda in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. For foreign productions she sang W.A. Mozart's Susanna and Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro or the role of Anna in G. Verdi’s Nabucco. In 2022, on the occasion of the French-Czech co-production, she performs the role of Oberto in George Frideric Handel's Alcina with the Collegium 1704 under the conductor Václav Luks at the National theatre in Brno.
Eva Kývalová is also a concert performer and her repertoire includes songs, song cycles and sacred works such as W.A. Mozart's Requiem, Coronation Mass, Dvořák’s Te Deum and Lusatian Mass, among others. |
