As Actor
The Bartered Bride
1932
5.8
Jarmila Novotná
Acting
Birth Date
September 23, 1907
Place of Birth
Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
Date of Death
February 9, 1994
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.
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