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Jana Kurucová (born 12 October in 1982) in Kežmarok (Slovakia). She is Slovakian Mezzo-soprano opera singer.

Career
At the age of fourteen she started her music education in church music,composition, organ, orchestra conducting and singing at the Conservatory J. L. Bellu in Banská Bystrica. In 2002 she received a grant for the University for Music and Drama in Graz and made her operatic debut in The magic Flute ('Second Lady') and La Finta Giardiniera (Ramiro). In the season 2005/2006 she became a member of the Young Artists Program of the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. From 2005 to 2009 she had been a part of ensemble of the Theater Heidelberg and interpreted the roles of Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Charlotte (Werther), Sesto (La clemenza di Tito), Idamante (Idomeneo), 'Rosina' (Il barbiere di Siviglia), 'Ramiro' ( Montezuma), 'Megacle' (L'Olimpiade), 'Lucio' (Tito Manlio).

Since the season 2009/2010 she is a member of the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where she sang in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Le Nozze di Figaro. She furthermore performed as 'Fenena' in Nabucco, 'Hänsel' in Hänsel und Gretel, 'Flora' in La Traviata, 'Zerlina' in Don Giovanni, 'Mélisande' in Pelléas et Mélisande.

In the season 2011/2012 she had a great personal success in the role of 'Cherubino' at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin as well as at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Siviglia under the musical guide of Pedro Halffter, and in Karlsruhe. In the role of 'Idamante' in Idomeneo was she at the National Theater of Prag.

Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, 'Maffio Orsini' in Lucrezia Borgia (alongside Edita Gruberová), 'Fenena' in Nabucco, 'Meg Page' in Falstaff, 'Zerlina' in Don Giovanni in Berlin and at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari (conductor : Roberto Abbado). 2012/13 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin she sung the role of 'Fuchs' in Das Schlaue Füchslein.

This present season 2013/14 she made her successful debut as 'Cherubino'/Le Nozze Di Figaro at the Opera in Beijing, and recently her most successful as 'Donna Elvira'/Don Giovanni at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and at the Opera Oslo, as well as an outstanding role debut, enthousiastically acclaimed by press and audience, as 'Romeo' in Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi on the occasion of a concert performance of that title within the Klangfestival Dortmund, followed by her equally successful debut at the Semperoper Dresden as 'Rosina'/Il Barbiere di Siviglia. In addition to her further performances at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

In 2014/15 she sang her first 'Elisabetta'/Maria Stuarda in Ostrava, as well as CARMEN (title role) and 'Donna Elvira' /Don Giovanni in Prague and Bratislava. In 2016 came for the first time the role of 'Sesto' /Giulio Cesare at the Semperoper Dresden and she did her debut 'Marta'/Boito: Mefistofele at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. In 2017 she sang her first 'Dorabella'/Così fan tutte at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and she did her house debut at the New National Theatre in Tokyo as 'Cherubino'/Le Nozze Di Figaro. In May she sang the role of the 'Isolier' Le comte Ory alongside Lawrence Brownlee and Jessica Pratt at the Musikfestival Klangvokal in Dortmund. In September she sang with Kristine Opolais, Richard Samek and René Pape Dvořák's Stabat Mater at the Dvořákova Praha Festival. By the end of the year she sang the Rosina Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Semperoper Dresden and Bratislava, the role of the Elisabetta Maria Stuarda in Banská Bystrica. She performs at the Svátky hudby v Praze Festival in the Rudolfinum Hall in Prague, as well as at the Christmas concert in the Reduta concert hall in Bratislava.

In May 2018 she was 'Martha' Boito: Mefistofele alongside Joseph Calleja and Erwin Schrott at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and she sang the role of 'Elisabetta' from Donizetti: Maria Stuarda alongside Diana Damrau and Javier Camarena at the Deutsche Oper Berlin where she also gave her debut as 'Siebel' Gounod: Faust

This year she is waiting for two role debuts as 'Prinz Orlovsky' Die Fledermaus and 'Nicklausse' Les contes d'Hoffmann at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and she will sing the role of Carmen at National Theater Prague.