Born in Germany to Slovak parents, 13-year old Patricia Janečková performs Ennio Morricone's heavenly melody "Once Upon A Time In The West" during the Miss Reneta student beauty pageant in Havirov, Czech Republic on March 30, 2012. She died on October 1st in 2023.
Take a look at the contestants in the background who are perhaps not only mesmerized by the amazing performance of the beautiful young singer but some of them appear to be envious in the face of such talent and beauty combined. They have a flower in their hands while Patricia is the blossom that will become a non-withering flower for many decades to come.
- This is a re-upload of • Video
- I have enhanced the loudness (normalization), removed some crackling noise in the right channel of the original audio and added more of the highly merited applause from another source because of the drowsy Czech audience.
At the time of writing (2016), Patricia is still only 17/18 and has become a singing sensation and a Slovak national icon. Born in Germany in 1998 she successfully made the difficult step from a Czecho-Slovak TV talent show (Talentmania) in 2010 to a promising international career. As opposed to other vocal phenomena like wunderkind Jackie Evancho from Pennsylvania, she has considerably developed her voice and vocal technique and is now an accomplished, acclaimed and much sought-after operatic soprano enchanting audiences around the world and flabbergasting critics and peers alike.
The following text is outdated but taken from her own website: www.patricia-janeckova.com/en
In December 2010, thanks to a record-breaking number of votes, she became an absolute Winner of a Czecho-Slovakian talent show Talentmania, in which she gained favor and appreciation in Slovakia and in the Czech Republic. An exceptionally gifted 13-year-old opera singer PATRICIA JANEČKOVÁ (1998) has been singing since the age of four and she is an exceptional appearance on the current musical scene. The professional public exalts her enormous musical maturity, pure intonation and cultivated voice above all.
Of all the musical genres she was particularly fascinated by opera since her early childhood. She experienced her first contacts with the opera stage as a member of Antonín Dvořák Theatre’s Opera Studio in Ostrava. At the age of 10 she won a casting of Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra Ostrava and she got her first chance to sing with a symphonic orchestra.
In December 2010, she became an absolute winner of Talentmania. During the following year the debut CD album recording in cooperation with a musical composer, conductor and producer Oskar Rózsa and also her first all-evening recital with a big orchestra within the Viva Musica! festival took place. At present she is attending private singing lessons with popular Czech opera singer and pedagogue Eva Dřízgová-Jirušová. She is going to study opera singing abroad after she finishes elementary school.
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