Adam Plachetka, Welcome

New CD Evening Songs

Renowned bass-baritone Adam Plachetka celebrates the Year of Czech Music with an anthology of Czech evening songs by Antonín Dvořák, Bedřich Smetana, Zdeněk Fibich and Josef Suk. All based on love poems for Vítězslav Hálek’s Večerní písně (Evening Songs), these songs provide a panorama of great Czech music, also zooming in on lesser-known repertoire. Plachetka performs them together with pianist David Švec.

Bass-baritone Adam Plachetka frequents the world’s most prestigious opera houses, and is a MET regular, equally at home in dramatic and comic repertoire. He returns to PENTATONE after having released Molieri, combining opera arias by Mozart and Salieri, in 2022.

Matrimonial Duets

What is sure to be a truly special recording, Adam will release ‘Každý jen tu svou’, an album of Dvořák & Smetana operatic arias and duets with wife Kateřina Kněžíková in September of this year. The album, which will be released on the Radioservis label, will feature the Czech Radio Symphony Orchresra under the baton of Ondrej Lenárd. More details on this release and how to purchase the CD will be released soon!

Photo: Marek Olbrzymek

New Season`s Highlights

Adam`s operatic engagements in the 2018/19 season include his eagerly-awaited debut at the Opéra de Paris as Alidoro (La Cenerentola), a return to the Metropolitan Opera as Leporello (Don Giovanni), multiple returns to the Wiener Staatsoper in roles including Figaro, Leporello, Dulcamara and Chorébe in a new production of Les Troyens. 

In concert Adam will appear at Salzburg`s Mozartwoche in Mozart’s Requiem, in Istanbul with the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra in Bruckner’s Te Deum and Brahms` Ein deutsches Requiem and return multiple times to the Czech Republic with pieces such as Fauré`s Requiem, Dvořák`s The Spectre Bride and in recital.

Photo: Marek Olbrzymek