Jiří Brückler

Biography

Baritone Jiří Brückler made his Prague State Opera debut in 2005 as the Hunter in Rusalka and in 2012 at the historic building of the National Theatre as Henry Cuffe in Gloriana. In the 2011/2012 season he accepted an engagement at the State Opera Prague, and since 2012 he has been a soloist at the National Theatre Opera and the State Opera. He studied singing at the Prague Conservatoire under Jiří Kotouč, and continued his studies at the Academy of Music in Prague under Roman Janál. At the National Theatre he has performed Rodrigo in Don Carlo, Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Dandini in La Cenerentola, Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Silvio in Pagliacci, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, Ping in Turandot, Adolf in The Jacobin, Mercurio in Roméo et Juliette, Maestro Biscrom Strappaviscer in Viva la mamma, Harašta in The Cunning Little Vixen, Chekunov in From the House of the Dead, Albert in Werther, Pantalon in The Love for Three Oranges, Budivoj in Dalibor, the title role in Don Giovanni, among others. He is a regular guest at the J. K. Tyl Theatre in Plzeň, where he has created the title role in Eugene Onegin, Frank in Edgar and Pseudolus in B. Martinů's The Soldier and the Dancer. He has also been a guest artist at the National Theatre in Brno and other Czech theatres. For the role of Silvio in Pagliacci in the production of the F. X. Šalda Theatre in Liberec, he was included in the wider nomination for the Thalia Award in 2009, and for the role of Rodrigo (Don Carlo, National Theatre) he was nominated for the Thalia Award in 2013. He is the winner of the International Antonín Dvořák Singing Competition in Karlovy Vary in the Junior category in 2008.