Simona Šaturová

A native of Bratislava, Slovakia, the soprano Simona Šaturová began violin lessons at the age of five but decided to pursue vocal training after graduating from high school and completed her degree at the conservatory in her hometown. Master classes led her to Ileana Cotrubas and Margreet Honig, who remains her coach. She made her Salzburg Festival debut in 2006 in Mozart’s Mass in C minor under Helmuth Rilling and began her collaboration with Frankfurt Opera in the same year; since 2010 she has been closely associated with the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels. For that company she has performed such Verdi roles as Violetta Valéry in La traviata and Gilda in Rigoletto and especially such Mozart roles as Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), the Countess in Figaro, Servilia in La clemenza di Tito, Sandrina in La finta giardiniera, Ismene in Mitridate, and Lucio Cinna in Lucio Silla. She has also appeared at the Semperoper Dresden, the Theater an der Wien, the National Theater in Prague, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. Šaturová has moreover earned acclaim as a concert and oratorio singer. She has performed in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Herbert Blomstedt and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and in Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater with Manfred Honeck and the Czech Philharmonic. Jakub Hrůša and the Bamberg Symphony invited her to sing in Mahler’s Second Symphony, and Fabio Luisi and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra engaged her for Franz Schmidt’s Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln. Her 2022-23 season has so far included a performance of Mozart’s Mass in C minor under Václav Luks; she will appear in Essen in Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and at the Smetana Festival in Litomyšl in Dvořák’s Stabat Mater, with Tomáš Netopil conducting both performances. Her debut solo CD, Haydn Arias, was named an Editor’s Choice by Gramophone magazine in 2009; her most recent recording is devoted to Dvořák’s Moravian Duets.

Lucerne Festival deubt on 1 September 2006 in Mozart’s Mass in C minor under Helmuth Rilling.

March 2023