Pavol Kubáň

Biography

Slovak baritone Pavol Kubáň has been a soloist of the National Theatre Opera since the 2021/2022 season. He made his debut at the State Opera as Marcello (La bohème), at the Estates Theatre as Don Giovanni and at the historic building as Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia). He graduated from the Conservatoire and the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. He was a guest artist at the Semper Opera in Dresden in the 2012/2013 season. In March 2017 he made his debut at the National Theatre Brno as Jaufré Rudel (Saariaho: L'Amour de loin). At the F. X. Šalda Theatre in Liberec, he sang the double role of Malatesta and Baron in Rachmaninov's Francesca da Rimini and The Greedy Knight and also Zurga in Les pêcheurs de perles. At the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in Ostrava he created the Prince in Hans Krása's Verlobung im Traum and Lescaut in Manon. His repertoire at the National Theatre in Prague also includes Mozart's Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Giorgio Germont (Verdi: La traviata) and Belcore (Donizetti: L’elisir d‘amore). He repeatedly appeared at the Valle d'Itria Festival in the Italian town of Martina Franca, e.g. as Barone di Kelbar (Verdi: Un giorno di regno). He sang the title role of Weinberger's Schwanda the Bagpiper in the Teatro Massimo di Palermo. He has also guest appeared at the Teatro Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence and at opera houses in Bologna, Zurich and Halle. Pavol Kubáň is a laureate of numerous international competitions and a finalist in the Hans Gabor Belvedere Competition in Vienna.