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Jarmila Novotná

Also Known As: Jarmila Novotná, Novotna

Birth Date

September 23, 1907

Death Date

February 9, 1994

(passed away at 86)

Place of Birth

Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]

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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.