Opera
The Secret
Kalina
The National Theatre
Adam Plachetka
Biography
Adam Plachetka is a regular guest of the National Theatre and the State Opera. He made his debut in 2005, at the historic building in the role of Mícha in Smetana's The Bartered Bride, and on the stage of the State Opera as Basilio in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia.
He graduated from the Prague Conservatory and the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. At the National Theatre, he has performed Mozart roles such as Don Giovanni, Figaro and Count Almaviva (The Marriage of Figaro), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Nardo (La finta giardiniera), and Publio (La clemenza di Tito), as well as Argante (Handel’s Rinaldo), Smetana’s Přemysl (Libuše), Vladislav (Dalibor), and Kalina (The Secret), Rossini’s Figaro (The Barber of Seville), and Wagner’s Wotan (Das Rheingold).
Adam Plachetka performs regularly at the Metropolitan Opera in New York (Don Giovanni, L’elisir d’amore, Le nozze di Figaro, Così fan tutte, Rodelinda, Peter Grimes), the Vienna State Opera (La bohème, Alcina, L’elisir d’amore, Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro, Il barbiere di Siviglia, L’italiana in Algeri, La Cenerentola, Don Pasquale, I puritani), and the Salzburg Festival (Benvenuto Cellini, Rusalka, Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberflöte). His other opera engagements include the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London (Don Giovanni, L’elisir d’amore), the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden (Così fan tutte, La clemenza di Tito), Glyndebourne (Le nozze di Figaro), Carnegie Hall in New York (Salome), the Deutsche Oper and Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin (Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro), Teatro alla Scala (Così fan tutte, L’italiana in Algeri), Lyric Opera of Chicago (Le nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberflöte, Il barbiere di Siviglia), Opéra de Paris (La Cenerentola), and Houston Grand Opera (Le nozze di Figaro).
On the concert stage, he has appeared at venues including the Musikverein in Vienna and Graz, Wigmore Hall in London, Usher Hall in Edinburgh, the Herkulessaal in Munich, the Wiener Konzerthaus, Konserthuset Stockholm, the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, and Prague’s Municipal House and Rudolfinum. He has collaborated with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the French, Bavarian, Austrian, and Czech Radio Symphony Orchestras, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Budapest Festival Orchestra.
Adam Plachetka has made recordings for Arte, Arthaus Musik, Capriccio, Clasart Classics, Czech Television, Czech Radio, Deutsche Grammophon, Mezzo, Naxos, Nibiru, Orfeo, ORF, Pentatone, Radioservis, Servus TV, Supraphon, and Unitel Classica.Hehas been singing under the baton of conductors such as Marco Armiliato, Daniel Barenboim, Mariss Jansons, Fabio Luisi, Riccardo Muti, Andris Nelsons, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Christian Thielemann, and Franz Welser-Möst. He is a laureate of numerous competitions, including the Antonín Dvořák International Singing Competition.
Photo: Pavel Hejný
