Iva Táborská is a mezzo-soprano active primarily on the Czech and Italian music scenes. She studies voice at the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno and at the Conservatorio di Musica Santa Cecilia in Rome, where she studies with Giuseppina Bridelli. She has further developed her artistry through masterclasses led by leading figures in historically informed performance, including Ton Koopman, Peter Kooij and Andreas Scholl.
She appears as a soloist with leading historically informed performance ensembles in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Italy, including Czech Ensemble Baroque, Ensemble Inégal, Musica Aeterna, Mare Nostrum and Silentium! Ensemble. She has also performed as a soloist with the Brno Philharmonic and Brno Contemporary Orchestra. Her festival appearances include Prague Spring, Janáček Brno, Concentus Moraviae and other major music festivals.
In 2021, she made her debut at the Silesian Theatre in Opava as the Angel in a staged production of Haydn’s The Creation conducted by Oliver Dohnányi. Under his baton, she also performed the roles of Eurydice, the Nymph and Hope in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, subsequently touring with the production in Italy and Greece. At the Divadlo na Orlí theatre, she has appeared as Ottone (C. Monteverdi – L’incoronazione di Poppea), Marta (O. Mácha – Polapená nevěra) and the Mother-in-Law (S. Szokolay – Blood Wedding).
In 2025, she made her Bologna debut under the direction of Federico Maria Sardelli as Pensier d’Umiltà in Alessandro Scarlatti’s oratorio La Santissima Annunziata. She subsequently performed the role of Licida in Vivaldi’s opera L’Olimpiade with LaFil – Filarmonica di Milano at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano. She currently performs the role of Filandra in the opera La donna ancora è fedele in collaboration with the Orchestra Barocca Siciliana.
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