Milan Kundera’s first wife left the world. The gifted singer was 85 years old

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The music world is going through rough times again. Opera singer Olga Haasová-Smrčková died on Sunday, December 11. Her uncle was the famous director Hugo Haas. She was also the first wife of writer Milan Kundera. The gifted artist was 85 years old.

Opera singer Olga Haasová-Smrčková shone especially on the boards of the National Theater in Brno. During her long career, she played countless roles and won the hearts of many viewers.

The theater announced the sad news on its Facebook page. “From the 1960s to the beginning of the 1990s, she was one of the mainstays and mainstays of the opera troupe, on the Reduta stage she portrayed dozens of characters in the classic operetta repertoire and in musicals,” recalled theater colleagues.

She excelled, for example, in the role of Kristina in Čapkov’s Veča Makropulos. But she also won the audience in the role of Augusta Panicetti in Gordi Kramer’s opera When It’s Sunday in Rome. She ended her career in 1991.

Theater newspapers remember Olga as musically gifted. They highlight her pleasant warm alto, attractive stage appearance and acting talent. The loss thus apparently affected not only the theater but also the music world.

In the 1950s, she married the writer Milan Kundera. Olga and her mother, a famous writer, allegedly inspired the play The Owners of the Keys. But the marriage did not last long.

Olga Haasová-Smrčková died after a long, serious illness. She allegedly spent the last years of her life in a retirement home in Brno.

Actress Olga Haasová-Smrčková | Source: Provided by the Archives of the National Theater Brno

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The article is in Czech

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