01. 01. 2019 | Karla Hofmannová
26. 12. 2018 | Peter Bleha
20. 12. 2018 | Luigi Paolillo
It was a perfectly coordinated performance with singers who I haven't known so far. I was enthusiastic about dramatic and choral cast of the actress singing the leading part of Kát’a Kabanová. She was given a long-standing ovation of the audience, which was not numerous but very enthusiastic. Pavla Vykopalova’s Káťa is very heartfelt, tender and at the same time strong. She can get used to her role, she can show various forms of Káťa’s character – on one hand a suffering woman too wrapped up in herself and her deep sorrow and on the other hand she can show a dreamy woman who wants to fly with seagulls up to a passionate and luscious unfaithful woman suffering from her fault and social pressure. We can find all of it in Pavla Vykopalova’s voice, which has an unbelievable flexibility and sophistication. It belongs only top – level stars. Her performance is also outstanding, with a lot of sensitivity and charisma over and above a common standard. Pavla Vykopalova’s Káťa is authentic.
More at https://www.fermataspettacolo.it/lirica/la-perfetta-macchina-scenica-di-kata-kabanova
17. 12. 2018 | Salvatore Morra
The audience is also enthusiastic because Pavla Vykopalova’s soprano has unsurpassable stage performance. Her pleasant and soulful voice with the full timbre including low tones is surprising. Costumes by Wolfgang Gussmann show a perfect wife at first changing later into a sexy half naked sinner but at the same time a gentle and tender woman.
More at https://www.giornaledellamusica.it/recensioni/il-dramma-di-kata-kabanova
17. 12. 2018 | Paola De Simone
Pavla Vykopalova was completely faultless – both singing cast and her performance. Her soprano was powerful and vocally versatile. She created Káťa with outstanding dramatic character, she expressed very well an enslaved wife and a daughter- in- law and then a lonely woman, a tender mistress and unfaithful seer who knows that there is no other way for her. Pavla Vykopalova is especially outstanding at her monologues.
More at https://www.connessiallopera.it/recensioni/2018/napoli-teatro-san-carlo-katia-kabanova
Káťa Kabanova takes flight in Naples
17. 12. 2018 | Lorenzo Fiorito
The singing cast was excellent. In the title role, Czech soprano Pavla Vykopalová was at complete ease: she was really outstanding, alternating longing and passion with depression and anguish. She sang superbly throughout, her stage presence growing more and more as the story unravelled. She was able to express the childish side of Káťa’s personality as well as the disgraced woman who decides to end her own life. Her voice was quite steely in the recitatives, as required by the Czech language prosody according to Janáček's intentions, then she deployed her clear, beautiful sound in the (rare) lyrical passages.
Erotically sultry, or Brno’s new Così fan tutte
19. 05. 2018 | Lukáš Pavlica
On the other hand what deserves great praise is the vocal synthesis of all the voices and especially those of now Václava Krejčí Housková and Pavla Vykopalová. Although both singers use a significantly decorated tone and did not stint on the vibrato does, their expression was in such agreement that they resembled one body and one soul. Vykopalová however dazzled even in her absolute fidelity to the meaning of the text and her truly precise acting.
18. 12. 2017 | Jakub Kožíšek
Gounod emphasized Marketa more, in reality she is a star figure. Her soul plays an important role in this performance. This situation was wonderfully expressed by Pavla Vykopalová. She can satisfy her audience with her deft and at the same time with her strong and sonant voice, she can demonstrate both - lyrical and dramatic expression. In the third act she splendidly expressed the contrast between the song about the King Thulle and the aria about jewels. Then after many adventures at the end of the opera she haunts her thoughts to the first Faust's meeting, she moves back to the love scenes and you are in a sweat about it. After so many difficult parts Pavla Vykopalova’s voice was so clear and on the same level as at the beginning of the performance.
08. 06. 2017 | Telefonotéka, Český rozhlas Vltava
30. 05. 2017 | Dominik Sirný
16. 05. 2017 | Radmila Hrdinová
More at https://www.divadelni-noviny.cz/pavla-vykopalova-na-kurtu-i-na-jevisti-jit-do-plnejch
17. 04. 2017 | Robert Ferrer
More at https://www.divadelni-noviny.cz/narodni-divadlo-brno-laska-na-dalku-recenze
Love at a Distance Brings the National Theatre to World Classics
25. 03. 2017 | Petr Veber
Pavla Vykopalová was unbelievable in the premiere – despairing and dignified. This at first gentle music rises at the end dramatically in bold melodic curves to achieve noble pathos.
They met. Love at a Distance in Brno
25. 03. 2017 | Olga Janáčková
And finally Pavla Vykopalová appeared as Clémence which I do consider to be her best theatre role so far. Mastering that extremely difficult part, both singing and acting, offered Pavla a life chance to prove her unique talent.
Classical CDs Weekly: Kabeláč, Ligeti, Shostakovich
28. 01. 2017 | Graham Rickson
What’s fascinating is how mind-blowingly original much of this music is, doubly so when one considers that Kabeláč would have had little or no access to developments in Western Europe. Things become especially outré from 1960’s Symphony No. 5 onwards, written for wordless soprano and large orchestra. This performance has the wonderful Pavla Vykopalová in the solo role, her wilder outbursts anticipating passages in Britten’s War Requiem.
12. 01. 2017 | Redakce OperaPlus.cz
More at https://operaplus.cz/role-typu-tosky-ted-nejsou-mym-salkem-caje-ptali-se-pavly-vykopalove
01. 01. 2017 | Rudo Leška
01. 12. 2016 | Anna Šerých
Káťa Kabanová is leading the opening of the Brno Theatre Season.
12. 10. 2016 | Helena Havlíková
Ms. Vykopalová, as Káťa, managed to pursuade her audience that Káťa was a stronger
and more dramatic character in her struggle of leaving behind the old and backward way of life she had been a part of, crossing it over by her personal courage, and creating thus a new way of life.
Staging of Káťa Kabanová: a memorable beginning of the Janáček Festival, Brno 2016
09. 10. 2016 | Jan Špaček
Even though the whole evening was in fact a great festival of wonderful, excellent and brilliant parts of art, nevertheless, I do consider the two moments as the most important. One of them was unbeatable performance of Pavla Vykopalová in her title role.
