About me

Soprano Alena Miro is a graduate of the Pardubice Conservatory and the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. As early as during her studies she became a laureate of the International Antonín Dvořák Singing Competition in Karlovy Vary and a winner of the Jarmila Novotná Prize for young Czech singers.

She attended international performance courses under the guidance of Yevgeny Nesterenko and Gabriela Beňačková. She has been working with Prof. Eva Blahová for a long time. Immediately after her graduation, she began to guest perform at the Prague State Opera and a year later, in 2002, she became a soloist at the Prague State Opera and the National Theatre in Prague, where she performed until 2018. She played here, among others, the role of the First lady (W. A. Mozart: The Magic Flute), Nuri (E. d’Albert: Tiefland), the Kitchen boy (A. Dvořák: Rusalka), Pamina (W. A. Mozart: The Magic Flute), Micaela (G. Bizet: Carmen), etc. From 2011 to 2017, she was a guest in the role of Mařenka (B. Smetana: The Bartered Bride) at the Janáček Opera of the National Theatre in Brno.

In 2016, she started studying in Italy with the world-renowned soprano Francesca Patané.

In 2018, the Italian agency OPERA 3000 started to represent her.

Alena Miro has so far worked with many renowned conductors such as Jiří Bělohlávek, Tomáš Brauner, Enrico Dovico, Heiko Matias Förster, Hilary Griffiths, Jakub Hrůša, Martin Leginus, Ondrej Lenárd, Claire Levacher, Charles Olivier Munroe, Leoš Svárovský, Rastislav Štúr, Guillaume Tourniaire and others.

She has performed with leading Czech and Slovak orchestras such as the Prague Philharmonia, the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Slovak Philharmonic, the Slovak State Philharmonic Košice and the Slovak Sinfonietta Žilina. She has performed at festivals such as the Smetana Litomyšl, Prague Spring, Mitte Europa and many others.

Her partners on the theatre and concert stages have included for example Géraldine Chauvet, Andrew Richards, Paulo Ferreira, Pavol Breslik, Adam Plachetka, Miroslav Dvorský, Štefan Margita, Ludovít Ludha, Michal Lehotský, Otokar Klein, Aleš Briscein, Richard Novák and others.

She has so far performed on theatre and concert stages not only in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, but also in Austria, Germany, Croatia, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Turkey, Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, China and Japan.

The European Union of Arts awarded her the Gustav Mahler Prize for her performance work.
In March 2023, she had to end her singing career for serious health reasons.