Jarmila Novotná

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.

Known For

Countess Véra-Élisabétha Opalinsky

La Dernière Valse

Hannah Malik

The Search

Dame Brinker

Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates

Mme. Baranska

The Great Waltz

Frasquita

Frasquita

Maria Selka

The Great Caruso

Marie

Die verkaufte Braut

Frau Thormaelen

Die Nacht der großen Liebe

Vera Starschenska, Sängerin

Der Kosak und die Nachtigall

Primadonna

Brand in der Oper

Laura

Der Bettelstudent

Self

Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt

Vyznavači slunce

Skřivánčí píseň

Countess Vera Lizavetta

The Last Waltz