Miloš Horák

Miloš Horák, basso, was born in Mladá Boleslav. He studied singing privately with Professor René Tučka and Professor Katarína Bachmannová. Between 1998–2000 he was a member of the Prague State Opera Choir; after that he was engaged with the opera company of the Municipal Theatre in Ústí nad Labem, where he performed e.g. in operas Madame Butterfly (uncle Bonzo), La traviata (Marquis d’Aubigny) and The Tales of Hoffmann (Hermann). He collaborated with the Vienna Chamber Opera on the project Orpheus and Eurydice and he participated in the Gioacchino Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy. Since 2001 he collaborates with a Swiss concert agency which arranged for him a comic opera tour of Scandinavia, Germany and Switzerland. At present he is a member of the Prague State Opera Choir where he is also assigned solo parts such as e.g. Marquis d’Aubigny (La traviata), Count Ceprano (Rigoletto), Narumov (The Queen of Spades), Sciarrone (Tosca), the Mandarin (Turandot) a Vaudemonte (The Sicilian Vespers). In the South-Bohemian Theatre in České Budějovice he interpreted the part of Basilio in The Barber of Seville by Rossini. He also takes part in concerts; he sings basso e.g. in Magnificat by Bach, Messiah by Händel, Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Requiem.