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Jarmila Novotná
Acting
Born September 23, 1907 · Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
Died February 9, 1994
Also known as Jarmila Novotná · Novotna
Biography
Jarmila Novotna was Czech soprano singer, stage and screen actress. She made her operatic debut at the Prague Opera House, on June 28, 1925, as Marenka in Smetana's "The Bartered Bride". Her film debut was in "Vyznavaci slunce/The Sun Disciples" (1926). In 1929 she joined the Kroll Opera in Berlin. She created the female lead in Jaromir Weinberger's new operetta "Frühlingsstürme" in 1933, the last music drama produced in the Weimar Republic. Jarmila Nvotna and her singing partner Richard Tauber were both forced to leave Germany by the new Nazi regime.
Awards & recognition
- Recipient of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, 4th class · 1991
- honorary citizen of Lázně Toušeň
- honorary citizen of Prague
