Miloš Horák

Bass Miloš Horák was born in Mladá Boleslav, central Bohemia, in 1976. He studied voice privately with Prof. René Tuček and Prof. Katarína Bachmannová, the latter of whom has continued to work with him to this day. His further training included master classes with Prof. Nikolaus Hillebrand. In 2000 he was engaged by the Ústí nad Labem Municipal Theatre opera company on whose stage he appeared in its productions of, among others, Madama Butterfly (the Bonze), La traviata (Marchese d’Obigny), or Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Hermann). In 2004 he became a member of the Prague State Opera ensemble. Here, he has built up a gallery of solo roles, including Narumov (The Queen of Spades), Count Ceprano (Rigoletto), Fiorello (Il barbiere di Siviglia), the Imperial Commissioner (Madama Butterfly), the Mandarin (Turandot), and others. In 2008 he reached the final round of the Antonín Dvořák International Singing Competition in Karlovy Vary. Since 2009 a soloist of the Prague State Opera, he has been cast in its productions of, among others, Die Zauberflöte (Papageno), Otello (Lodovico), or Aida (Ramphis, the part in which he appeared during the Prague State Opera’s guest appearances at Salzburg, and on its Japanese tour). He has to his credit guest appearances at the National Theatre in Prague, as Canadian forward and Japanese assistant in the revived run of Martin Smolka’s opera Nagano. As a permaneng guest of the J. K. Tyl Theatre in Plzeň and of the Southern Bohemia Theatre in České Budějovice, he has contributed to his repertoire e.g. the roles of Collin (La bohème), Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia), and Leporello (Don Giovanni). On the concert platform, his repertoire comprises bass parts in Bach’s Magnificat, Handel’s The Messiah, Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and Dvořák’s Te Deum. Earlier in 2010, he appeared in the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra’s rendition of Novák’s cantata, The Tempest.