Mezzo-soprano Tereza Papoušková has been devoted to music from an early age, singing in children’s choirs from the age of three. She studied at the Prague Conservatory under Yvona Škvárová, where she won the competition for a solo graduation concert with orchestra in her final year. During her studies, she performed numerous operatic and operetta roles, including the Second Lady in Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Sylva Varescu in Kálmán’s operetta Die
Csárdásfürstin.

She continued her studies at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (HAMU), first with Yvona Škvárová and later with Helena Kaupová. In 2022, she portrayed Geraldine in Samuel Barber’s one-act opera A Hand of Bridge as part of the project Zpráva o stavu neživém. In 2023, she performed the roles of Cherubino and Marcellina in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro.

Since June 2022, she has regularly appeared as the Second and Third Wood Nymph in the production Rusalka ve Vysoké (Opera studio Praha). She has participated in numerous national and international competitions and masterclasses with artists such as Eva Randová, Gabriela Beňačková, Vladimír Chmel, and Ahmad Hedar, with whom she also pursued private studies. In 2022, she received an honorary mention and the Audience Prize at the International Antonín Dvořák Vocal Competition in Karlovy Vary (Junior category).

She has performed at major Czech music festivals including Smetana’s Litomyšl and Zlatá pecka, and made her debut on the stages of the National Theatre and Estates Theatre in Prague in March and September 2023 as part of the Bedřich Smetana Matinee concerts.

Since October 2023, she has been a student at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), studying with long-standing Staatsoper Berlin soloist Carola Höhn. In 2024, she appeared as the Kitchen Boy in Dvořák’s Rusalka at Theater Erfurt. In 2025, she portrayed Rosemary Kennedy in the opera Proč je taková? with the artistic collective Runoperun in Prague. In 2026, she will sing Meg Page in Verdi’s Falstaff in a UdK Berlin production and, in the summer of the same year, perform the role of Hänsel in Humperdinck’s Hänsel and Gretel at the Berlin Opera Academy.

Since 2025, she has also been active as a lecturer at UdK Berlin, teaching Czech diction and IPA.