„Čekovská’s painting motif works brilliantly. What starts as a single recorded voice becomes a multi-tracked vocal that degenerates along with Gray’s soul, finally turning into a nails-on-the-blackboard sonic wail. It’s a strikingly effective device, especially used so sparingly.“

„Cekovska’s music shows clear influences of Britten, Shostakovich, Janáček, and Berg, which has been “skillfully homogenized…“

„You can feel purity, austerity and dramatic feeling in herworks….her music radiates with feelings of freshness and the joy of living… beauty and seriousness“

„The new opera “Dorian Gray,” by the young Slovak composer Lubica Cekovska, represents the latter. Ms. Cekovska’s easily grasped, mildly dissonant style, with lyrically oriented vocal lines, underscores, as far as it goes, the unsettling nature of Oscar Wilde’s sinister novel. Tension is created by steady drumbeats, insistent rhythms and swelling chords. Ms. Cekovska interestingly conveys the picture’s disfiguration musically through wordless boy-soprano melodies that recur increasingly distorted.“

„The film’s languorous mood is complemented by a striking score from Ľubica Čekovská“

„Ľubica Čekovská belongs to the one of the most talented composers in her generation“

“Opera Here I am, Orlando by Slovak composer Ľubica Čekovská to a libretto by Viktoria Knotková is a beautiful piece of music. Combined with fabulous direction, beautiful sets and costumes, and an absolutely superb performance by all the soloists, chorus members and musicians, the audience had the opportunity to see an absolutely captivating production of an outstanding work in its world premiere. The novelty shows that giving space to modern, living composers is a step in absolutely the right direction.”

“Opera can be an absolutely contemporary, funny, moving play. If anyone doubts this, go to Brno. “Here I am, Orlando” is an intimate masterpiece that I would like to hear and see in Poland before it conquers other world stages.”

Lubica Chekhovska’s comic opera “Impresario Dotcom” celebrates its world premiere at the Bregenz Festival – and impresses with its bizarre humor, vibrant sounds and parody of opera as a commercial and social space.