Tenor Jaroslav Březina won the award for outstanding performance in the opera production of the Brno National Theatre. Bassist Dalibor Jedlička, who studied and performed in Brno, received an award for lifetime achievement in opera.
Jaroslav Březina graduated from the Prague Conservatory under Professor Zdeněk Jankovský. During his previous career, he cooperated with conductors J. Bělohlávek, Ch. Mackerras, O. Dohnány, S. Baudo and G. Albrecht. Since 1993, he has been a soloist of the Prague National Theatre Opera. In the Brno National Theatre, he is a guest performer in the Martin Glaser’s production of Jenůfa, which was musically staged by Marko Ivanović.
Březina’s performance as Laco from the perspective of critic Petr Veber: "The beautiful complex vocal and acting performance was brought to this project mainly by Jaroslav Březina as Laco: he moves naturally, convincingly, logically and precisely and his facial expressions are such that the situations, in which he acts, are not an opera cliché, but a realistic display of real psychology and behaviour – which is, after all, entirely in line with truthfulness, which Janáček consciously strove to achieve and which is successfully embodied in his music through the speech melodies that he heard."
Dalibor Jedlička, who graduated from the contrabass programme at the Brno Conservatory and studied singing privately under Professor Krancová, received an award for lifetime achievement in opera. He was the head of the opera of the Prague National Theatre in 1989-1991. In 1949, he was a guest artist at the Brno National Theatre in the role of nobleman Senovicz in the production of Polish Blood.
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