Jaroslava Prochazkova, later known as Slavka, was born in Ukraine in Lvov on July 14,1912, (then part of Austria-Hungary). She studied acting at the Prague Conservatory in 1931. She also studied singing with several famous opera singers. After the conservatory she joined the Uranie Theater [1931-1932], followed by short-term engagements outside Prague, at the Municipal Theater in Pilsen [1932-1934] and the East Bohemian Theater in Pardubice [1934-1935]. After that, she became a successful and popular operetta singer, originally in Prague's Great Operetta [1935-1937] and the Nusle Tyl Theater [1937-1940]. During the occupation, she played and sang in Olomouc and České Budějovice, after the war she became a soloist of the Deutsches Opera in Prague [1945-1948]. She also guested in Vienna and Graz in [1947-1949]. The Great Opera was merged with the National Theater in 1948 and Prochaskova remained a soloist until her retirement in 1973. She was a great soprano with a wide voice range and excelled in Czech operas (“Devil and Kate”, “Rusalka”, “Hubicka”, “Katya Kabanova”, “Jenůfa”, “Lucerna”), but thanks to her comic timing she also sang roles in buffo Italian operas.
Uder her stage name of Slávka Procházková she had a film career of some ten films from 1937 70 1976. She sang two songs for the 1949 puppet Euro-western “Song of the Prairie”.
PROCHAZKOVA, Slávka (Slávka Procházková) [7/14/1912,
Lvov, Halič, Austria-Hungary – 12/22/1978, Prague, Czechoslovakia] – film
actress, singer, married to photographer Karel Hájek [1900-1978] (1940-19??),
mother of a daughter.
Song of the Prairie – 1949 [sings: “Sou fár tu jú aj
mej”, “So far”]
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