1934Nominee
Best Performance
Frasquita
Jarmila Novotná
Actor
Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
September 23, 1907
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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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1951Nominee
Best Performance
The Great Caruso
1948Nominee
Best Performance
The Search
Career Highlights
1958Highlight
Best Performance
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
1930Highlight
Best Performance
Fire in the Opera House
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The Great Caruso
The Search