Mezzo-soprano Veronika Hajnova graduated at the conservatory VSMU in Bratislava, at the professor Luba Baricova. She also took part in several master courses both in the Czech Republic and Germany. In 2002 she went as far as the semifinal in the Belvedere International Singing Competition in Vienna and was awarded CNIPAL prize. Already as a student she performed in the opera ensemble of The J. K. Tyl´s Theatre in Pilsen. She was nominated for Thalia Prize in 2003 and 2010. She has been a soloist of the Prague State Opera since 2004 where she has been performing namely dramatic roles. Among them are Amneris in Aida by Verdi, Azucena in The Troubadour, Fenena in Nabucco, The Witch in Rusalka by Dvorak or Carmen in the opera by Bizet. She is a soloist of the National Theatre in Prague and Brno. She performed in many tours in abroad, as Japan, Spain, Portugal, France, Hungary, Abu Dhabi or Soul. She is also singing at international and home music festivals (Festival Internazionale della Musica in Milano, festival in Gars am Kamp, Prague Spring, Smetana´s Litomysl, Janacek´s May etc.) She is invited to cooperate with outstanding orchestras as Czech Philharmonic, Brno Philharmonic, Janacek Philharmonic, Moravian Philharmonic. She is invited very often to cooperation with Czech Philharmonic Orchestra with maestro Jiri Belohlavek. Beside opera a part of her repertoir are oratorio works and songs. First of all we have to name the part of Zefka in Janacek´s The Diary of the One Who Disappeared, which she performed both home and in the concert performance in Paris Opera Bastille in 2007 or at the festival in Milano in 2008, the mezzo-soprano part in Verdi´s Requiem, which she interpreted with great success in the Opera Municipale in Marseille. Her newest role is Mélisande in Debussy´s opera Pelléas et Mélisande in the National Theatre Prague and Wagner´s Tanhäuser in State Opera Prague.