Adriana Kučerová (born 24 February 1976) is a Slovak operatic soprano. When she was 22 years old and almost finished with her university studies, she decided to go into a music career. Frank Kuznik of ''

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'' wrote, "To say that Adriana Kučerová came late to singing would be like saying that

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was just another composer". She had originally studied at

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, working towards an education degree. Frank Kuznik said that she "chang dher mind literally at the last minute."Kuznik, Frank.
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''. 22 January 2009. Retrieved on 4 October 2012. A teacher at the university's music school recommended that she attend a conservatory in Bratislava. Kučerová attended the

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in France. In 2001, she won the European Music Prize for Youth in

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, Germany, and a year later, she was awarded at the International Summer Academy Prague-Vienna-Budapest.Adriana Kučerová
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. Retrieved on 4 October 2012. In 2005, at the Gabor Belvedere singing competition in

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, Austria, she won the first prize and the special audience prize. At the time, Kuznik wrote that, since then, she "has been in demand on stages throughout Europe". Kučerová joined the

after finishing her university studies.

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