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…
3 September 2020
Press Conference Broadcasted Live for the First Time
A new vision of the direction, a dramaturgical plan for the new season and a new visual of the State Theater in Košice were presented on Thursday, September 3 at a press conference by CEO Ondrej Šoth and new…
2 September 2020
Orchestra member Peter Takáč Has Passed Away
The shocking news flew through the State Theater in Košice just before the theatrical asset of the employees before the start of the new theater season 2020/2021. At the age of 63, the violinist Peter Takáč, who spent his entire professional life in the orchestra of the Košice State Theater, suddenly passed away. He joined the opera orchestra immediately after graduating from the conservatory in…
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…
24 August 2020
Borodáč's 6 steps to the Three Sisters
Can you imagine life without theater as we know it today? We definitely cannot. We are especially grateful to one person who transformed his passion into a professional career and thus contributed to the establishment of professional theater in Slovakia. This man was Janko Borodáč. The older generation of Košice met with his name especially in the 1990s, when the Košice and Prešov theaters…
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.…