Iva Bittová

Passionate about music, Iva Bittová learned a lot from her father, Koloman Bitto, an instrumental player able to express himself on the contrabass, the cimbalom, the guitar and the trumpet. She perfected her knowledge at the Brno Conservatory where she graduated in 1978 at the age of twenty. For three decades now she has been recognized on the Czech music alternative scene (her participations to the bands Mañana, Kolektiv, Dunaj and Bittová & Fajt) and internationally (her singing Elvira's part in the Carnegie Hall production of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" in 2004). Iva Bittová was also (and still occasionally is) an actress. On the boards from 1976 to 1984 (her most famous role being that of Erzika in the theater version of Carlos Saura's Llanto por un bandido (1964)) and in films by Jaromil Jires, Martin Sulík, Ondrej Trojan or Alice Nellis. She is absolutely adorable and unforgettable as Jolanka, the determined gypsy girl a young gadjo postman has fallen in love with, in Ruzové sny (1977) (Dreams in Pink).