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Vojtěch Šafařík Baritone

Recipient of INDEPENDENT OPERA Postgraduate Voice Fellowship (Royal College of Music)

Born in the Czech Republic, Vojtěch Šafařík graduated from Prague State Music Conservatory before continuing on to the Benjamin Britten International Opera School at the Royal College of Music, where he studied with Timothy Evans-Jones.

His operatic roles include Médécin (Pelléas et Mélisande) for INDEPENDENT OPERA at Sadler's Wells in 2008, Leporello (Don Giovanni) under Kirill Petrenko at the International Opera Studio, Komische Oper Berlin, Badger/Parson (The Cunning Little Vixen) at Woodhouse, Father (The Jewel Box) for Bampton Classical Opera, Marte (La Contesa dei Numi) for International Music Festival Český Krumlov, and Mozart’s Masetto and Vítězslav Novák’s Vrchní in Lucerna, Czech Republic. For the BBIOS, operatic roles have included Forester (The Cunning Little Vixen), Mozart’s Count Almaviva, Ottone (L’incoronazione di Poppea) and Mercurio (Atalanta).

Vojtěch appears frequently as a concert soloist. Recent engagements include Samuel Barber’s Dover Beach at Cadogan Hall for the RCM 2008 Rising Stars Series, Brahms’s Requiem under Leif Segerstam, Mozart’s Mass in C minor under Sir Charles Mackerras, Purcell’s The Fairy Queen with Camerata Salzburg under Sir Roger Norrington, the title role in Handel’s Saul under Paul Spicer, Polyphemus (Acis and Galatea), Faurè’s Requiem and Bach’s St.John’s Passion with the London Mozart Players, Czech Christmas Mass in Cadogan Hall with the Southbank Sinfonia and Simon Over and in 2008 Purcell’s The Fairy Queen at the Festival Aix-en-Provence under William Christie.

Vojtěch is a Samling Foundation Scholar and the second prize winner of the Clonter Opera Prize 2008.