Pavel Černoch

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As Amleto
at the Bregenz Festival 2016

Pavel Černoch (born May 2, 1974 in Brno ) is a Czech opera singer with a tenor voice .

life and work

Pavel Černoch sang in the Cantilena Chamber Choir as a child and later studied at the Janáček Academy for Music and Performing Arts in his hometown. He continued his vocal training with Paolo de Napoli in Florence and attended master classes in Italy. Paolo de Napoli continues to support Černoch with voice training.

The singer made his debut at the Janáček Theater in Brno in Mozart's Magic Flute and was engaged in Prague, Riga, Cagliari, Athens, the Graz Opera and the Vienna Volksoper .

Opera

Černoch has appeared in a number of operas by his compatriot Leoš Janáček - as Boris Grigorjevic in Káťa Kabanová at the Berlin and Stuttgart State Operas ; as Steva and Laca Clemen in Jenůfa in Munich, Riga, Stuttgart and Zurich and as Albert Gregor in Věc Makropulos , again in Munich. The roles of Michelis in Martinů's The Greek Passion , the prince in Dvořák's Rusalka , which he has played in Brussels, Zurich, Glyndebourne, Naples, Paris and Riga, and Jenik in Smetana's Bartered Bride , which he has also come from the Czech repertoire the Opéra National de Paris sang. From Russian music, Černoch sings Vladimir in Borodin's Prince Igor , Lykov in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride and two Tchaikovsky roles - Lenski in Eugene Onegin and Vaudémont in Jolanthe . He made his debut with the latter role in January 2012 at the Teatro Real in Madrid, directed by Peter Sellars and conducted by Teodor Currentzis .

Černoch defines his repertoire in the middle of the triangle of lyrical tenor , teenage hero tenor and tenor spinto - with a clear focus on the Italian and French operatic oeuvre of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: he sings Alfredo in La traviata , Gabriele by Verdi Adorno in Simone Boccanegra and the title role of Don Carlos , from Puccini Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly and Rodolfo in La Bohème , as well as Don José in Bizet's Carmen , Roméo in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette , and the title roles in two French Faust settings - Gounod's Faust and Berlioz ' La damnation de Faust . However , the singer has canceled the debut in the title role of Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann at the Württemberg State Opera planned for 2016 . The singer's excursions into German are limited to the Lyonel in Flotow's Martha . From Mozart he sang Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni , as well as Alfred in der Fledermaus by Johann Strauss and Simon in the begging student by Carl Millöcker .

His stage partners include Anja Harteros , Karita Mattila , Anna Netrebko , Angela Denoke , Eva-Maria Westbroek and Kristīne Opolais .

Since his debut at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich in 2009, the tenor has performed at the State Operas of Berlin , Hamburg and Stuttgart , the Cologne Opera and Zurich Opera House , the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, the Opéra National de Paris and the Opéra de Nice and the Opéra de Lyon and several times at the Glyndebourne Festival , also at the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki, at the Royal Opera House Muscat in the Sultanate of Oman and at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow as well as at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and at the Scala in Milan on.

In 2016 he took over the title role in a new production of Amleto by Arrigo Boito (libretto) and Franco Faccio (composition) at the Bregenz Festival . It was the Austrian premiere and at the same time the first European performance of the forgotten work in 145 years. Pavel Černoch was able to achieve great personal success both as an actor and as a singer. The audience cheered him, and critics praised his portrayal of the sad Prince of Denmark. In 2016 he also sang his first Don Carlos at the Hamburg State Opera. In 2017, Wladimir in Fürst Igor in Amsterdam, Lenski and Don Carlos at the Opéra Bastille Paris and in La damnation de Faust in Rome followed. In 2018 he made his role debut as Cavaradossi in Athens and his debut at the Vienna State Opera, again as Lenski in Eugene Onegin .

Debuts at the Royal Opera London and Metropolitan Opera New York are announced from 2019.

concert

Černoch also sings regularly in the concert hall, he has been invited by the BBC Proms , the Bergen Festival , the Verbier Festival , the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra . In Antwerp, Ghent and Stuttgart he sang the tenor solo in the Verdi Requiem , in London and Zurich the Glagolitic Mass by Leoš Janáček , in Boston the choral symphony Kolokola op. 35 by Sergei Rachmaninoff . He works with the conductors Daniel Barenboim , Jiří Bělohlávek , Charles Dutoit , John Eliot Gardiner , Daniele Gatti , Tomáš Hanus , Jakub Hrůša , Andris Nelsons , Kirill Petrenko , Simon Rattle , Gennady Rozhdestvensky and Vassily Sinaisky .

Sound recordings (selection)

Web links

Commons : Pavel Černoch  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eßlinger Zeitung : Reshuffle in "Hoffmanns Erzählungen" ( Memento of the original from August 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.esslinger-zeitung.de archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , January 8, 2016, accessed July 21, 2016.
  2. ↑ Austria Press Agency : Cheers for "Hamlet" new discovery at the start in Bregenz , quoted here from Salzburger Nachrichten , July 21, 2016.
  3. ↑ Vorarlberg Online : Cheers for “Hamlet” new discovery at the start in Bregenz ( Memento of the original from August 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vol.at archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , July 21, 2016.
  4. ↑ Daniel Ender: "Hamlet": No rescue of honor, but a coup , in: Der Standard (Vienna), July 21, 2016.
  5. ^ Pyotr (Peter) Ilyich Tchaikovsky. In: Andreas Ommer: Directory of all opera complete recordings. Zeno.org , volume 20.
personal data
SURNAME Černoch, Pavel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech opera singer with a tenor voice
DATE OF BIRTH May 2nd 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno