Daniel Matoušek

Biography

The Czech tenor Daniel Matoušek has been a soloist of the National Theatre Opera since the 2022/23 season. He made his debut at the National Theatre as early as March 20, 2014, in the role of Pepík in Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen, and subsequently appeared there as a guest artist in the roles of the Eccentric (L'amour des trois oranges) and the First Brother (Die sieben Todsünden).
His repertoire at the National Theatre Opera and the State Opera includes Rinuccio (Don Buoso & Gianni Schicchi), Brighella (Ariadne auf Naxos), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), the Italian Singer (Der Rosenkavalier), Malcolm (Macbeth), Beppe (Pagliacci), Nemorino (L'elisir d'amore), Edmondo (Manon Lescaut), Tybalt (Romeo et Juliette), Mustafa Bey (Ball at the Savoy), and Chevalier de la Force (Dialogues des Carmélites). He regularly performs on Czech opera stages, including the National Theatre Brno, the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in Ostrava, the Moravian Theatre Olomouc, the J. K. Tyl Theatre in Plzeň, the F. X. Šalda Theatre in Liberec, the South Bohemian Theatre in České Budějovice, and the North Bohemian Theatre in Ústí nad Labem. His portrayal of Nadir (Les Pêcheurs de perles) at the Olomouc Opera earned him a longlist nomination for the 2019 Thalia Award. At the National Theatre Brno, he guest-starred in productions of Falstaff (directed by Ondřej Havelka) and The Excursions of Mr. Brouček (directed by Robert Carsen), which also garnered attention on the OperaVision platform. Abroad, he has performed in Magdeburg as Tamino, at the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava (Maria Stuarda, Nuit Persane), and at the National Theatre Košice (Die Zauberflöte). In the 2025/26 season, he made his debut at the Royal Opera House in London in the first-ever run of Janáček's The Makropulos Case conducted by Jakub Hrůša and directed by Katie Mitchell. He participated in the iSING festival in China and has performed at major festivals such as Smetana’s Litomyšl, the Český Krumlov International Music Festival, the Janáček Brno Festival, and the Wiesbaden Festival, among others. In 2026, he collaborated with the Bamberg Symphony at the Musikverein in Vienna and performed Verdi's Requiem with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Ondrej Lenárd. In 2022, he appeared in the feature film The Crow (directed by Rupert Sanders). In September 2024, the label Radioservis released his debut album of Italian and Neapolitan songs, which he arranged himself for symphony orchestra, entitled O sole mio, recorded with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Jan Kučera. He has participated in masterclasses led by Eva Randová and Antonio Carangelo; his teachers have also included Jan Vacík and Jarmila Chaloupková, and he currently works with Kateřina Kněžíková and Adam Plachetka.

Photo: Hana Görlichová