Pavel Černoch

Pavel Černoch studied music management at the Janáček Academy of Music in his native Brno and took private singing lessons. In 1994, during master classes in Osimo, Italy, he was encouraged by Franco Corelli and Mario Melani to pursue a career of an opera singer. Then he studied with Paolo di Napoli in Florence.

Pavel Černoch made his first stage appearance in 1998 as Monostatos (Die Zauberflöte). It was followed by performances in Brno, in Teatro Lirico Cagliari and Teatro della Maestranza in Seville. Since 2004 he has made regular appearances in the National Theatre in Prague, performing the parts of Alfredo (La traviata), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Ernesto (Don Pasquale), Michelis (Bohuslav Martinů: The Greek Passion) and Vítek (Bedřich Smetana: The Secret). In 2005 he made his debut in the Latvian National Opera in Riga as Števa (Leoš Janáček: Jenůfa), followed by the part of Alfredo (La traviata) and Prince in the new production of Dvořák’s Rusalka. In the season 2007/2008 he guest appeared in Vienna Volksoper as Alfredo (La traviata), Lionel (Martha), Alfred (The Bat) and Camille de Rosillon (The Merry Widow). In 2008 he performed the part of Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor) in the Graz Opera and the part of Alfredo (La traviata) at the St. Margarethen Opera Festival. Among the highlights of his career so far are, apart from others, Rodolfo (La bohème) with the City of Birmingham Orchestra under the baton of Andris Nelsons, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Helsinki Philharmonic and again Nelsons, Števa (Jenůfa) at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich under Kirill Petrenko, new productions of Rusalka at the Greek National Opera in Athens (Prince), Don Giovanni in Riga (Don Ottavio), and La bohème at the Vienna Volksoper. In 2009/10 Pavel Černoch made his debut in Glyndebourne (Števa in Jenůfa) and at the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki (the title part in Gounod’s Faust). He has also had his first appearance as Jeník (Bedřich Smetana: The Bartered Bride) in the Prague National Theatre and sang Boris (Leoš Janáček: Katya Kabanova) in Stuttgart.

The 2010/11 season’s commitments take him to the Opera Bastille, Paris (Jeník, The Bartered Bride), the Hamburg State Opera (Alfredo, La traviata and Rodolfo, La bohème), the German Opera in Berlin (Alfredo), Glyndebourne Festival Opera (Prince, Rusalka) and the Latvian National Opera in Riga (Lensky, Eugene Onegin).

Pavel Černoch has cooperated with such well-known conductors like Ascher Fisch, Andris Nelsons, Kirill Petrenko, Tomáš Netopil, Jiří Bělohlávek, Oliver Dohnányi, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Caspar Richter, Jaroslav Kyzlink, Alfred Eschwé a.o., as well as stage directors like Luca Ronconi, Pier Lugi Pizzi, Yuri Alexandrov, Pavel Fiber, Jiří Nekvasil, and others.