The soprano Simona Houda-Šaturová is a sought-after performer of Mozart roles and of the Italian bel canto repertoire as well as a renowned concert singer. Highlights of the most recent seasons include Mozart trilogy (Mozart – Da Ponte) at Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels where she performs regularly. She has cooperated with the Vienna Philharmonic and Herbert Blomstedt, the Munich Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra under Krzysztof Urbanski, the Czech Philharmonic under Christoph Eschenbach and Tomáš Netopil, the Vienna Symphonic and Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Juraj Valčuha, Boston Symphony Orchestra and Charles Dutoit at the Tanglewood Music Festival, with Mozarteumorchester and Riccardo Minasi at Salzburger Festspiele; she made a concert tour with Bamberger Symphoniker and Jakub Hrůša, and she performed with Orchestre National de Paris and Jukka-Pekka Saraste. She has been featured in major concert and opera productions all over the world and cooperated with eminent conductors such as Manfred Honeck, Fabio Luisi, Adám Fischer, Iván Fischer, Emmanuel Villaume, Christopher Hogwood and others.
She has recorded for Supraphon (Martinů, Dvořák, Míča), Sony BMG (Orff, Saint-Saëns), Orfeo (Haydn Arias, awarded with “Editor’s Choice“), Accentus (Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 with Herbert Blomstedt, received the International Classical Music Award), Hänssler Classics (Haydn), Nibiru Publishers (Decade – Mozart, Mysliveček, and Jakub Jan Ryba’s Stabat mater – awarded with Diapason d’Or) and others. Her recordings of Johann Adolf Hasse’s Requiem& Miserere (Carus Verlag) and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with Christoph Eschenbach and Philadelphia Orchestra (Ondine) received the critics’ award in Germany “Preis der deutschen Schallplatten Kritik“ and Supersonic Award. She recorded the song cycle Ad astra by Eugen Suchoň for the Slovak Music Fund and most recently Karol Kurpinski’s Te Deum with Collegium 1704 and Václav Luks (NIFCCD, 2021).
Simona graduated from the Bratislava conservatory. She expanded her vocal education in master courses of Ileana Cotrubaş and Margreet Honig. She received the Award of Charlotte and Walter Hamel Foundation for exceptional vocal performances (Lübeck 2007), and the 2001 Thalia Award for the best Opera Performance.
“Simona Šaturová, as Lucia Popp and Edita Gruberova, coming from Bratislava is nothing short of a small miracle of Mozart. She sings Konstanze with such seismic coloratura, such piano-sensitivity and style perfection that take your breath away.“ (Der neue Merker)