Adam Plachetka

Guest of the National Theatre Opera. Born in 1985, bass-baritone Adam Plachetka was educated at the conservatory of his native Prague. In addition to his many national competition victories he won First Prize at the International Antonín Dvořák Competition in Karlovy Vary, where he was also awarded special prizes for interpretation. In 2005 he made his debut at the National Theatre in Prague as Baritone in Tom Johnson's Four Note Opera. Since then he has appeared there among others as Masetto and Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni), Publio (La clemenza di Tito), Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Nardo (La finta giardiniera), Argante (Rinaldo) and Guglielmo (Cosí fan tutte). He also performs Don Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia) and Papageno (Die Zauberflöte) at the State Opera Prague. He is a regular guest of Salzburger Festspiele (Benvenuto Cellini, Rusalka, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni). He also appeared as Figaro and Papageno in Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Hajný (Rusalka) in Opéra de Nice, Sylvano (La Calisto) at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Nardo in Theatre Royal de la Monnaie in Bruxelles and in Seoul Arts Center as Ping (Turandot) and Argante, that he also performed in Théâtre de Caen, Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, Opéra de Rennes and Opéra Royal de Versailles. In september 2010 he became a member of Wiener Staatsoper. He has appeared there as Schaunard (La bohéme), Don Apostolo Gazella and Gubetta (Lucrezia Borgia), Don Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Melisso (Alcina), Masetto (Don Giovanni) and Haly (L`Italiana in Algeri). He also participates in many concerts with Czech front orchestras (Česká Filharmonie, Pražská komorní filharmonie, Státní filharmonie Brno, Symfonický orchestr Českého rozhlasu, Symfonický orchestr hlavního města Prahy FOK) and baroque orchestras (Camerata Antiqua Seoul, Collegium 1704, Collegium Marianum, Ensemble Baroque, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Solamente Naturali). He cooperates with international music festivals Prague Spring (Te Deum, Kytice, Nocturno), Smetana`s Litomyšl (Kytice, Rusalka) and Znojmo Music Festival (Acis and Galatea, Don Giovanni). He performs under the baton of such conductors as Alessandro De Marchi, Enrico Dovico, John Fiore, Asher Fisch, Valery Gergiev, Friedrich Haider, Daniel Harding, Jakub Hrůša, Louis Langrée, Marc Minkowski, John Nelson, Tomáš Netopil, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Robin Ticciati, Gulliaume Tourniaire, Franz Welser-Möst or Marco Zambelli. He takes part in productions of Claus Guth, Ursel a Karl-Ernst Herrmann, Jean-Louis Martinoty, Adrian Noble, Pier Liugi Pizzi, Philipp Stölzl, Jossi Wieler and Franco Zeffirelli. For more information, visit www.adamplachetka.com Update: August 2011