Jana Jonášová with Bendlová and then at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague with Teodor Šrubař. She made her professional opera debut in 1965 at the Liberec Theatre as Konstanze in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "The Abduction from the Seraglio". That same year she became involved with the Chamber Opera Prague. She remained committed to the Liberec Theatre through 1970 and then joined the National Theatre in Prague where she initially sang minor roles and worked in the opera chorus. In 1973 Jonášová was promoted to principal sopranos at the National Theatre and she quickly became one of the house's most important
Marta Belen locations around the United States, Brazil, Portugal, and Spain. She sang for the Tucson Opera (now the Arizona Opera) and the San Francisco Opera. She sang the principal soprano role for "La Traviata", "Madame Butterfly", and "La Boheme", as well as performing in "La Sonnambula", "Daughter of the Regiment" (La fille du régiment), "The Magic Flute", and "The Abduction from the Seraglio". In the late 1970s she recorded Rachmaninoff's art songs with Paula Fan accompanying. Marta married Roger Irwin in 1962. They later divorced in 1976. She married David Hutchinson in 1983. In 1966 she began studying Buddhism, and lived