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- Sona Cervená was born on September 9, 1925 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Zitra se bude (2010), Únos (1953) and Divotvorný klobouk (1953). She died on May 7, 2023 in Prague, Czech Republic.
- She maintained long associations with the Frankfurt Opera and the San Francisco Opera, and was on the roster of singers at the National Theatre in Prague.
- Cervená starred as Emilia Marty in Karel Capek's play The Makropulos Case, directed by Robert Wilson, at the National Theatre in Prague from the production's debut in November 2010.
- After a nine-year absence, Cervená returned to San Francisco in 1980 to portray Countess Waldner in Arabella, Flora in La traviata, Mamma Lucia in Cavalleria Rusticana, and Starenka Buryjovka in Jenufa.
- Cervená studied voice with Robert Rozner and Lydia Wegner-Salmowá in her home city before beginning her career performing with an operetta ensemble in Prague.
- Her mother died in a Communist jail in 1948, the year of a Communist coup-d'etat in Czechoslovakia. Cervená learned about her mother's death and with the help of a pathologist recovered her mother's body to secretly bury her in her family grave in Prague.
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