Tomáš Černý

Guest of the Prague State Opera

At present, one of the most outstanding Czech tenors Tomáš Černý performs as a permanent guest soloist at both the National Theatre Opera in Prague and the Prague State Opera. He made a highly successful debut at Staatsoper Stuttgart in Jully 2008 as Laca Klemen of Janacek’s Jenufa under the baton of Marc Piollet. In December 2009 Tomáš Černý gave a Tchaikovski concert at the Komische Oper Berlin under the chief conductor Carl St. Clair. Tomáš Černý is specialized in Dvorak’s concert repertoire and is internationally acclaimed for singing tenor parts in Stabat Mater, Requiem and The Spectre’s Bride. Tomáš Černý was awarded the Czech prestigious Thalia 2000 prize for the interpretation of Prince Sou-Chong in Lehar’s Land of Smiles. Furthermore he was awarded within the Festival Opera 2005 for the best interpretation of the title role – Edgardo from Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor and he was the Thalia 2005 nominee for the role of Laca from Janacek’s Jenufa and the Thalia 2008 nominee for the role of Jenik from Smetana’s The Bartered Bride. After the Masterclass in 2006 with Prof. Margreet Honig he has been improving his voice performance with her. He also has co-operated with the soprano Christina Vasileva lately. Since 1997 he had studied with Prof. Jiri Kotouc and since 2002 with Prof. Svatava Subrtova.

On opera stages, he has created a number of important roles of the Czech as well as world tenor repertoire such as Alfredo (Verdi – La traviata), Duke of Mantua (Verdi – Rigoletto), Edgardo (Donizetti – Lucia di Lammermoor), Rodolfo (Puccini – La Boheme), Pinkerton (Puccini – Madama Butterfly), Don Ottavio (Mozart – Don Giovanni), Tamino (Mozart – Die Zauberflöte), Erik (Wagner – The Flying Dutchman), The Prince (Dvorak – Rusalka), Jenik (Smetana – The Bartered Bride), Lukas (Smetana – The Kiss), Laca (Janacek – Jenufa) and Manolios (The Greek Passion). He takes successfully part in international festivals, e.g. Rheingau Musik Festival, ION – Musica Sacra in Nürnberg, Herrenchiemsee Festspiele, Murten Classics, Milano Musica, Smetana’s Litomysl, The Prague Spring, The Prague Autumn, International Festival of Contemporary Music Warsaw Autumn and he also performed at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava, etc.

He has co-operated with orchestras such as Czech Philharmonic (Dvorak’s Requiem), Tonhalle Orchester Zürich (Dvorak’s The Spectre’s Bride), Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig (Verdi’s Requiem), Bremer Philharmoniker (Dvorak’s Stabat Mater), The Brabants Philharmonic Orchestra (Dvorak’s Stabat), Odensee Symfony Orchestra (Dvorak’s Requiem), Orquesta Nacional de España (Martinu’s Gilgames), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic (Dvorak’s Stabat Mater) and National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, RAI Torino Orchester etc. Mr Cerny has worked with the conductors such as Petr Altrichter, Serge Baudo, Jiri Belohlavek, Alan Buribayev, Aldo Ceccato, Gabriel Chmura, Oliver Dohnanyi, Olari Elts, Leopold Hager, Eliahu Inbal, Ken-iciro Kobayashi, Jiri Kout, Ondrej Lenard, Christoph Poppen, Helmuth Rilling, Leos Svarovsky, Martin Turnovsky, Maximiano Valdés, Caspar Zehnder and others. During his career, Tomáš Černý has performed in concerts all across the world; the places of his appearances stretch from Tokyo Oji Hall cross most of the European countries (e.g. Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, and Switzerland) to the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. His extensive concert and oratorio repertoire includes in addition to the common concert repertoire like from A. Dvorak, G. Verdi, A. Bruckner, H. Berlioz, L. Janacek, B. Martinu etc. also baroque and classicist top works by J. S. Bach, G. F. Händel, W. A. Mozart, L. van Beethoven and G. Rossini.

Future projects 2010/2011 include his debut in the role of Cavarodossi in Puccini’s Tosca in the Prague State Opera, and debut in the role of Don José in Bizet’s Carmen, from concerts e.g. the final concert Massenet’s Marie-Magdaleine at the Rheingau Musik Festival and concert with The Czech Philharmonic and conductor Ondrej Lenard.

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