Elizabeth Legierski is a Canadian‑Czech soprano based in Prague. Her versatile blend of vocal warmth, musicality, and vivid storytelling has resonated with audiences across Europe, Canada, and China. She is recognized for compelling interpretations in the operas of Mozart, Dvořák, and Smetana, alongside an active career as a concert soloist and recitalist.
Elizabeth Legierski is a Canadian‑Czech soprano based in Prague. Her versatile blend of vocal warmth, musicality, and vivid storytelling has resonated with audiences across Europe, Canada, and China. She is recognized for compelling interpretations in the operas of Mozart, Dvořák, and Smetana, alongside an active career as a concert soloist and recitalist.
Canadian‑Czech soprano Elizabeth Legierski is rapidly establishing herself across Europe and Asia for her vocal warmth, expressive clarity, and instinctive musicality. Based in Prague, she performs with leading theatres and orchestras including the F.X. Šaldy Theatre Liberec, the Prague State Opera, the North Bohemian Philharmonic, the Usti nad Labem City Theatre, and touring ensembles throughout Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and China. Her international appearances have taken her to major concert halls such as the Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Dresden Philharmonie, Prague Estates Theatre, Prague National Theatre, and Smetana Hall.
In the 2025–26 season, Elizabeth appears as Barče in Smetana’s Hubička in Liberec. She continues her multi‑season tour across Germany, Austria and Switzerland as 1. Dame, 2. Dame, and Papagena in Die Zauberflöte, and performs in the chorus of Mefistofele at the Prague State Opera. Her operatic repertoire includes Anna (Nabucco), 1st Woodsprite (Rusalka), Mařenka in Prodaná nevěsta (concert), Musetta in La bohème (concert), Marguerite in Faust (concert), and the premieres of Pasiphae (The Art of Love) and Venus (Pigmalione).
Her concert work spans sacred, symphonic, and gala repertoire. Elizabeth has appeared as a featured soloist with the Royal Vienna Orchestra on tour in China, in Best of Mozart in Opera and Ballet at Prague’s Smetana Hall, in the Year of Czech Music celebrations, and in numerous gala programs across the Czech Republic. Upcoming engagements include Mendelssohn’s Psalm 42 with selections from Elijah as a featured soloist on the Yale Alumni Chorus Poland Tour. She also serves as a soloist and jury panelist for the Cadenzafest International Music Competition.
Elizabeth’s musical life began long before her operatic career. She studied piano, violin, and viola, performing for five years as a violist with the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra. During this time, she performed regularly at Roy Thomson Hall and represented Canada at the International Festival of Youth Orchestras in Banff. Her repertoire included the major symphonies of Shostakovich, Mahler, Sibelius, Beethoven, and other pillars of the orchestral canon—among them Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 (From the New World), and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique). Working under conductors such as Sir Andrew Davis, Joaquín Valdepeñas, and David Zafer helped cultivate her musical sensitivity, phrasing, and collaborative instinct that now define her vocal artistry
She holds a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance with a Minor in Composition from the University of Toronto.
Canadian‑Czech soprano Elizabeth Legierski is rapidly establishing herself across Europe and Asia for her vocal warmth, expressive clarity, and instinctive musicality. Based in Prague, she performs with leading theatres and orchestras including the F.X. Šaldy Theatre Liberec, the Prague State Opera, the North Bohemian Philharmonic, the Usti nad Labem City Theatre, and touring ensembles throughout Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and China. Her international appearances have taken her to major concert halls such as the Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Dresden Philharmonie, Prague Estates Theatre, Prague National Theatre, and Smetana Hall.
In the 2025–26 season, Elizabeth appears as Barče in Smetana’s Hubička in Liberec. She continues her multi‑season tour across Germany, Austria and Switzerland as 1. Dame, 2. Dame, and Papagena in Die Zauberflöte, and performs in the chorus of Mefistofele at the Prague State Opera. Her operatic repertoire includes Anna (Nabucco), 1st Woodsprite (Rusalka), Mařenka in Prodaná nevěsta (concert), Musetta in La bohème (concert), Marguerite in Faust (concert), and the premieres of Pasiphae (The Art of Love) and Venus (Pigmalione).
Her concert work spans sacred, symphonic, and gala repertoire. Elizabeth has appeared as a featured soloist with the Royal Vienna Orchestra on tour in China, in Best of Mozart in Opera and Ballet at Prague’s Smetana Hall, in the Year of Czech Music celebrations, and in numerous gala programs across the Czech Republic. Upcoming engagements include Mendelssohn’s Psalm 42 with selections from Elijah as a featured soloist on the Yale Alumni Chorus Poland Tour. She also serves as a soloist and jury panelist for the Cadenzafest International Music Competition.
Elizabeth’s musical life began long before her operatic career. She studied piano, violin, and viola, performing for five years as a violist with the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra. During this time, she performed regularly at Roy Thomson Hall and represented Canada at the International Festival of Youth Orchestras in Banff. Her repertoire included the major symphonies of Shostakovich, Mahler, Sibelius, Beethoven, and other pillars of the orchestral canon—among them Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 (From the New World), and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique). Working under conductors such as Sir Andrew Davis, Joaquín Valdepeñas, and David Zafer helped cultivate her musical sensitivity, phrasing, and collaborative instinct that now define her vocal artistry
She holds a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance with a Minor in Composition from the University of Toronto.