Růžena Maturová was a Czech opera

Opera

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tic soprano

Soprano

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 whose international career began in the late 1880s and continued through the first decade of the 20th century.

Born in Prague

Prague

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, she was the leading soprano at the National Theatre

National Theatre (Prague)

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 there and created roles in several operas including three by Antonín Dvořák

Antonín Dvorák

Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many...

: the Princess in The Devil and Kate

The Devil and Kate

The Devil and Kate, Op. 112, B.201, is an opera in three acts by Antonín Dvořák to a Czech libretto by Adolf Wenig. It is based on a farce by Josef Kajetán Tyl, and the story also had been treated in the Fairy Tales of Božena Němcová...

(1898), and the title roles in Rusalka

Rusalka (opera)

Rusalka is an opera by Antonín Dvořák. The Czech libretto was written by the poet Jaroslav Kvapil based on the fairy tales of Karel Jaromír Erben and Božena Němcová. Rusalka is one of the most successful Czech operas, and represents a cornerstone of the repertoire of Czech opera houses...

(1901) and Armida

Armida (Dvorák)

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(1904).

After her retirement from the stage in 1910, she taught singing in Prague. Her most famous pupil was the contralto Marta Krásová

Marta Krásová

Marta Krásová was a Czech operatic mezzo-soprano who had an active international career with major opera houses in Europe from 1922–1966. She was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1958....

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Růžena Maturová died in Prague in 1938 at the age of 68.