Pelléas et Mélisande
Médécin
Vojtěch Šafařík
Born in the Czech Republic, Vojtěch graduated from Prague State Music Conservatory before attending the Benjamin Britten International Opera School, where he studied with Timothy Evans-Jones. BBIOS operatic roles included Forester (The Cunning Little Vixen), Ottone (L’incoronazione di Poppea) and Mercurio (Atalanta); other roles include Leporello (Don Giovanni) at the International Opera Studio, Komische Oper Berlin; Badger/Parson (The Cunning Little Vixen) at Woodhouse; Father (The Jewel Box) for Bampton Classical Opera and Masetto (Don Giovanni) in the Czech Republic. Recent concert engagements include The Fairy Queen at the Festival Aix-en-Provence under William Christie, Brahms’s Requiem, the title role in Handel’s Saul, Polyphemus (Acis and Galatea) and Bach’s St John’s Passion. Plans include Guglielmo (Così fan tutte) for the National Theatre, Prague. Vojtěch is a recipient of an INDEPENDENT OPERA Postgraduate Voice Fellowship (RCM), a Samling Foundation Scholar and the second prize winner of the Clonter Opera Prize 2008.
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