Adam Plachetka

Born: 1985-01-01

Bass baritone Adam Plachetka was born in 1985 and completed his studies at the Conservatory of his hometown Prague. Apart from a number of national competitions, he won the International Antonin Dvorak singing competition. In 2005 he made his debut at the Prague National Theatre, where he for example performed as Don Giovanni, Publio (La clemenza di Tito), Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Nardo (La finta giardiniera), Argante (Rinaldo) and Guglielmo (Cosi fan tutte). He performed Papageno (Die Zauberflöte) at the Prague State Opera as well as Don Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia). Engagements led Adam Plachetka to the Salzburg Festival, to the Bayerische Staatsoper, to Glyndebourne, to the Royal Opera House Covent Garden London, to La Scala Milan and to the Berlin Staatsoper. Since 2010/2011 he is member of ensemble of the Wiener Staatsoper and has for example sung Schaunard, Basilio, Melisso (Alcina), Masetto and Don Giovanni, Haly (L’italiana in Algeri), Graf Dominik, Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Gugliemo, Publio, Dulcamara, Hercule (Alceste), Alidoro here. http://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/Content.Node/home/kuenstler/saengerinnen/Plachetka.en.php


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Richard Strauss - Ariadne Auf Naxos

as uncredited
Released: 2014-10-05

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The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni

as Leporello
Released: 2016-10-22

Simon Keenlyside smolders dangerously in the title role of Mozart’s version of the legend of Don...

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Benvenuto Cellini

as Pompeo
Released: 2007-08-31

Live performance from Salzburg Festival Opera, August 2007. The story tells of Cellini's love...

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Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro (Salzburg Festival)

as Figaro
Released: 2015-07-20

The Salzburg Festival presents one of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's masterpieces: the opera Le Nozze...

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Mozart: Così fan tutte

as Guglielmo
Released: 2018-03-31

Two men enter a bet with intriguer Alfonso that their women will stay true, but disguise...

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Rossini: La Cenerentola

as Alidoro
Released: 2018-11-28

Divested of its traditional attributes – glass slipper and pumpkin carriage – and dominated by a...

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Dalibor

as Vladislav
Released: 2022-02-21

Dalibor is based on events that took place in the 15th century: having led a peasant revolt, the...

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The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni

as Leporello
Released: 2023-05-20

Tony Award–winning director Ivo van Hove makes a major Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s...

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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte

as Papageno
Released: 2019-04-28

Magic opera, Singspiel, a comedy with spectacular stage effects, Masonic ritual with Egyptian...

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Alcina

as Melisso
Released: 2011-01-01

The setting of the opera is the enchantress Alcina's island: here by her magic powers she has...

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Met Opera 2022/23: Don Giovanni

as uncredited
Released: 2023-05-20

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Le Nozze di Figaro - Wiener Staatsoper

as Figaro
Released: 2014-11-25

Producation of Mozart's Opera.

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We love Czechia

as self
First aired: 2013-04-07

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Doupě Mekyho Žbirky

as Self
First aired: 2019-04-26

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