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2009

TV Barrandov

Helena was one of the stars performing on a big gala arranged by new digital Czech TV channel "TV Barrandov" which started broadcasting on Saturday 11 January 2009. Helena performed her newest song "Love that makes crazy" from the forthcoming new studio album.

"Mona Lisa" - the musical

Helena plays Caterina de' Gherardini in the musical "Mona Lisa" that had its premiere on 5 March. Even this role confirmed that Helena is absolutely great singer and performer. The Queen of Czech Pop received the biggest applause and most flowers even if her role was not the main one...

The Mona Lisa photo sessions

On 4 March Helena attended the premiere with Hana Zagorova.

The CD

The soundtrack CD from the musical was released in March. Helena sings two songs.

The photo session with Hana

In the spring 2009 Helena and Hana Zagorova took an extended photo session and gave an inteview to the Czech weekly "Vlasta".

Spring in Ritka

The "spring" photo sessions were taken in Helena's house in Ritka in April 2009.

courtesy: vondrackova.net

The Golden Collection

The box with 81 songs on 4 CDs saw its release in May 2009. The box features Helena's greatest hits as well as rare recordings. Each CD has its own title: CD 1 Greatest Hits; CD 2 Unforgettable duets; CD 3 Sladke mameni (the same as the title of Helena's smash hit from 1983 & 2003); CD 4 I will go on.

Helena and Martin - spring 2009

Photos of Helena and her husband Martin for the Czech magazine "Story" taken in spring 2009.

Helena on MDR

Helena was one of the three pop stars (with Karel Gott and Jiri Korn) who guided in Prague on Saturday 2 May on the German TV channel MDR. The show "Prager Verführungen" hosted by Kim Fischer and Johann Lafer was broadcasted on prime time between 20.15 and 24.00. Lots of rare videos with Helena singing in German were shown during the evening.

Photo sessions for "Style"

In June 2009 Helena posed for photo sessions for fashion magazine "Style".

DVD+CD

The DVD + CD saw its release on 21 September 2009. The DVD contained whole concert from 21 December 2008 at Lucerna in Prague - totally 35 songs performed by Helena and her guests Jitka Zelenkova, Monika Absalonova and Michal David. The concert was absolutely stunning and the team behind the DVD managed to catch the feeling very well. Helena's voice was crystal clear and as usual she made a great performance. The CD features 15 songs taken from the concert - see the tracking list below.

Raffem.com debutes on stage after "Samba"...:-)

Photo sessions - Greece 2009

At the end of September Helena and the photo team went to the Greece and took an extended photo session on Creta island.

More Creta sessions

special thanks to Martin Michal

TV Ocko

Helena was the special guest on Czech TV "Ocko" on 28 October 2009. She was interviewed in the 1-hour-special "Inbox" about her new DVD/CD "Live" as well as the upcoming new studio album.

Zustavas tu se mnou - new album

The new studio album entitled: "Zustavas tu se mnou" ("You stay here with me") was released on Monday 23 November. The album featured 15 new songs and one bonus track - the song from the musical "Mona Lisa" in which Helena played one of the main parts in 2009 in the Broadway theatre in Prague. The songs on the new album represented lots of musical styles from pop ballads to South American rhythms as well as modern pop and rock. Helena even decided to make a cover on the old hit "No more Tears" performed originally by Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer - here together with Bara Basikova. Even an Billy Joel song "She's Always a Woman" got finally its Czech version performed by Helena. She recorded the song for the first time back in 1978 in German language for her album with the songs of Billy Joel in West Germany.

The booklet features beautiful photos taken in Greece at the end of October 2009. Totally the album contains 59 minutes and 47 seconds of new music performed by Helena.

The release party

The release party for the new album took place on 23 November 2009 at the Hybernia Theatre - Prague.

More promotion

Helena appeared on TV Barrandov at the end of November where she performed one song in the studio, gave an extended interview as well as she presented the new video to the song "You stay here with me" filmed two months earlier on Creta in Greece.

Live at Lucerna, 19/20 December 2009

Two sold-out concerts at the Lucerna concert hall in Prague confirmed once again that Helena is the biggest pop star in Czech Republic. Even the presence of hundreds of international fans from Germany, Russia, Sweden or Poland confirmed that she is one of the biggest stars in Central Europa as well. One of the Russian fans spent two nights and one whole day on the train from Moscow to Prague only to see Helena on stage. After the show it was time to take the same train back...

The new show performed by the star during the two sold-out nights at the Lucerna Concert Hall in Prague featured Helena at her best with both old hits and brand new songs released about four weeks ago on her new album "You stay here with me". The show had some absolutely stunning surprises as for instance Helena's dance performance of "Sir Duke" with 7 young tapdancers!

The concert started at 7 pm and ended after 11 pm - the giant show lasted 4 hours! Helena was dancing and singing and the audience did not want her to finish... She sang of course her evergreens as her version of ABBA's The Winner Takes It All, Lasku ma ja stunu, Cervena reka...

She was accompanied by a very good band and professional and talented three girls in the choir. Special guests: No Name and Sarka Vankova.

Rehearsals

The Show

After the show

Press meeting, after-party and our meeting - Helena and Stefan enjoy each other's company...

Special thanks to: Helena Vondrackova, Martin Michal and the MM Agency in Prague, Lenka D. (www.vondrackova.net) for supporting www.raffem.com

Christmas with Helena on raffem.com

Special wishes from Helena to her fans on raffem.com with this brand new previously unseen photo.

2010

In Berlin

On 26 January 2010 Helena was guest of honour at the opening of the exhibition of costumes from Czech films for children which are well-known in Germany, Poland and other countries. She performed 3 songs - one of them in German lanugage. Lots of German and international Helena fans came to see their star singing. The fans represented many countries as of course Germany, Slovakia, Poland, Sweden and USA.

Special thanks to: Helena, Martin K. Andre K.

Topstar

Helena's career was featured in the TV documentary "Top star" broadcasted by Czech TV in February 2010. Helena was interviewed in the show.

Celebrities without make-up project

At the end of April Helena participated in a charity project "Celebrities without make-up" arranged by Czech magazine "Story". Several well-known top stars - actors and singers - posed for photo sessions without any make-up. High quality photos from the sessions would be later sold and money would be given to various charity projects.

Michal David

Helena posed together with Michal David in connection with his 50th birthday. David had been a good friend to Helena as well as composer of her smash hit "Dlouha noc".

Vitebsk

Helena was a member of the international jury on the Song Festival in Vitebsk (Bielorussia) on July 8 - 16. She even appeared on stage on the first night of the festival and performed her hit "Dlouha noc".

Helena on Broadway

Three standing ovations...

...after the first and the second part of the concert "Helena on Broadway" on Tuesday September 21 at the Prague Opera confirmed

once again that Helena Vondrackova is one of the greatest singers in the world class.

Helena and her guests performed the biggest musical hits at the Prague Opera on September 20 and 21. Among all the hits there were two songs written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus: "The Winner Takes It All" (from the film "Mamma Mia") and for the very first time performed by Helena (together with Bara Basikova) "I Know Him So Well" from the musical "Chess"!

Helena performed well-known hits from various musicals. There were songs from among others: Jesus Christ Superstar, Hello Dolly, Cats, Man of La Mancha, Hair, Les Misérables, West Side Story.

Just some of the songs performed during the evening:

I Know Him So Well (from Chess), The Winner Takes It All (from the ABBA musical "Mamma Mia", Call Me (from American Gigolo), I Dreamed a Dream (from Les Misérables), Just the Way You Are (from Movin' Out), Beauty and the Beast (from Beauty and the Beast), Somewhere (from West Side Story), Till I Loved You (from Goya), The Way We Were (from The Way We Were), I've Had the time of My Life (from Dirty Dancing) (with Jiri Korn), Hello Dolly (from Hello Dolly), Memory (from Cats) and many others.

The shows were filmed for a DVD release.

The Opera picture gallery

After party

Lots of guests attended the party after the show. Among the guests: Jitka Zelenkova, Bara Basikova and many other celebrities.

As usual: Thanks to Martin and Helena

Poland

Helena was special guest on Polish TV in December in one of the most popular shows "Which melody is it?". She performed several songs and gave interviews for Polish TV.

Lucerna, December 19th 2010

One more smash success for Helena. The annual Lucerna Christmas show was held on Sunday, December 19. The Lucerna Concert Hall in Prague was filled with Helena fans and it felt that it should have been two concerts scheduled for this year just as it was in 2009.

Rehearsals

Helena did a great show and it was almost completely different to the shows last year. Totally more than 3 hours on stage together with her absolutely fabulous guest from Poland - the pop diva Maryla Rodowicz who captured the hearts of the audience immediately.

In the first part of the show Helena performed her classical hits as "Neuc slunce hrat" and "Cas je proti nam" as well as "Lasko prokleta" (originally performed in Czech language by Hana Hegerova") and an sligthly different version of "The Winner Takes It All" (A ty se ptas co ja).

After the performance of the first guest - the group In Flagranti, Helena continued with more hits as "Prejdi jordan", "Stin po nas dvou" (from her latest album), "Just The Way You Are", "Bridge over the Troubled Water" and the Charleston Medley.

The Polish pop diva Maryla Rodowicz started the big party at Lucerna with 6 strong rock performances of her big hits - both old and new. She performed together with Helena the classical "Malgoska" and they both received standing ovations. The party continued when Helena came back on stage singing "Sladke Mameni", "Jedu kros", "Hej ty tam" and finally "Dlouha noc".

The show was planned to be over after "Dlouha noc" but it didn't as the standing audience wanted more. Helena made four extra numbers - two Christmas songs, "Lasko ma, ja stunu" and finally "Vzdaleny hlas" in disco version.

It feels more and more that the Lucerna Concert Hall is too small for Helena and she needs a bigger arena. We are looking forward to coming Helena concerts in the nearest future. As usual 10 points out of 10.

2011

Jordan

The first days of the year 2011 Helena and her husband Martin spent on vacation in Jordan.

Charity

Helena performed "Stin po nas dvou" (Break free) on the charity gala in Prague on March 2nd. The concert supported the Seniors' Fund Foundation of Tatana Kucharova.

On the radio

Helena was a special guest on Radio Zlin on March 8th where she promoted her new single "Stin po nas dvou" (Break free).

Stin po nas dvou

New Helena single from the album "Zustavas tu se mnou" was "Stin po nas dvou" (The shadow after both of us). Helena promoted it on TV and radio in February and March 2011.

Poland 2011

Helena revealed her plans for Polish newspaper "Dziennik Zachodni" at the beginning of March. The hightlights were a  big concert in Zabrze/Poland planned for May 22nd and a tour on the Polish Baltic coast in the summer 2011 together with Maryla Rodowicz.

Ja pujdu dal or... I will go on - DVD

New DVD with videos and rare performances from the period of 1968 - 2010 saw its release on April 29th, 2011. Totally the DVD features 32 videos and 4 bonuses - 120 minutes.

The photo sessions

Helena opened ABBAworld in Prague

Helena opened the exhibition ABBAworld on Thursday May 5th, 2001. She performed Czech version of "The Winner Takes It All" (huge hit in Czechoslovakia in 1981) and had fun performing together with ABBA on stage :-). The exhibition is held Slovansky Dum in the centre of the Czech capital and it will stay in Prague until the end of August.

Video

Czech och Slovakian Superstar

Helena together with Jiri Korn performed two songs in the TV show "Czech och Slovakian Superstar" on Sunday May 8th, 2011.

The birthday concert

On Thursday May 9th Helena had her annual birthday concert at the Hybernia Theatre in Prague. The show was sold-out as usual when Helena is on stage. Several standing ovations and sweaty fans everywhere created a special atmosphere. She performed greatest hits as well as several songs from her latest studio album. She sang in Czech, English and French and each song performed by her resulted in great applause.

Special thanks to Martin Michal

The Houska gala

Helena was one of the stars performing on the Houska castle on August 6th. The concert's main purpose was raising money for the renovation of the castle.

(Thanks to Martin France for the pictures)

Tour with Michal David

In the autumn Helena went on tour together with Michal David. They gave several big concerts in Slovakia and Czech Republic with the final show at Lucerna Concert Hall in Prague on December 18th, 2011.

New Year's Eve

Helena was the main star in the traditional New Year's Eve's TV show in Slovakian TV Markiza. She performed several of her greatest hits as: "Sladke mameni", "Samba" and "Dlouha noc" and she received standing ovations.