Kateřina Kněžíková
is one of the most prominent figures of the younger generation of Czech singers in both the operatic and the concert repertoire. She is a graduate of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and has won honours in many events including the Antonín Dvořák International Singing Competition in Karlovy Vary. Since 2006 she has been a regular soloist with the opera company of the National Theatre in Prague, where she has sung Susanna in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, Aristea in L'Olimpiade by Mysliveček, and Terinka in Dvořák's opera The Jacobin amongst other roles. She also appears as a guest at other opera houses both at home and abroad, such as the Moravian-Silesian National Theatre in Ostrava, L’Opéra Royal de Versailles, and the Theatre Royal de La Monnaie. She works with important conductors like Serge Baudo, Manfred Honeck, and Tomáš Netopil, and with such renowned ensembles as the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Collegium 1704, and the Czech Philharmonic. With Jiří Bělohlávek she recorded a new official version of the Czech national anthem.