Opera
Il barbiere di Siviglia
Count Almaviva
The National Theatre
Biography
Tenor Petr Nekoranec has been a soloist of the National Theatre Opera in Prague since the 2021/22 season. In 2018–2020, he was a soloist of the State Opera Stuttgart, where he performed as Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Ramiro (La Cenerentola) and Ernesto (Don Pasquale). In 2016–2018, he attended the Lindemann Program for Young Artist at the Metropolitan Opera, as the first Czech who has been accepted into this program. In 2014–2016, he was a member of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, and its Opera Studio, where he portrayed several roles, including the title roles of Le comte Ory and Albert Herring. The latter role earned him the 2016 Bavarian Art Award. In January 2018, he was granted the Classic Prague Award in the category Talent of the Year 2017 and in the autumn of 2019, Supraphon released his profile album French Arias (the Czech Philharmonic, Christopher Franklin conducted). Petr successfully guest appeared at the festival in Florence (October 2022, in Handel's Alcina alongside Cecilia Bartoli), at the Markgräfliches Opernhaus in Bayreuth, at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, etc. He is a laureate of many singing competitions including 2017 International Competition of Francesco Viñas in Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona (the first place). He studied at the Pardubice Conservatoire in the class of Jarmila Chaloupková and collaborates with the Italian tutor Antonio Carangelo.
Photo: Lukáš Kimlička
