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Tenor Petr Nekoranec is one of the most outstanding talents of the young Czech singing generation. In the 2023/24 season, he assumes the roles of Nemorino in the new production of L’elisir d’amore, and Vít in the new production of Smetana’s The Secret, both at the National Theatre in Prague. In December 2023, he will assume the part of Ramiro in the concert version of Rossini's La cenerentola in Prague's Smetana Hall. Abroad he will guest as Arbace (Idomeneo) at the Opéra nationale du Capitol in Toulouse, and David (David et Jonathas) at the Théâtre de Caen, Nancy, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg and Teatro Real Madrid.
In the 2018–2020, Petr was a soloist of the Stuttgart State Opera, where he assumed the roles of Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Ramiro (La cenerentola) and Ernesto (Don Pasquale). Since the 2021/22 season, he has been a soloist at the National Theatre Opera in Prague, where he can be heard as Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Romeo (Roméo et Juliette), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Peppe (Pagliacci) and Singer (Der Rosenkavalier).
Petr's recent opera engagements have included the roles of Asprando (N.A. Porpora: Carlo Il Calvo) at the Margrave Theatre in Bayreuth, Yuródivïy (Boris Godunov) at the Stuttgart State Opera, Almaviva at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, Oronte (Händel: Alcina) in Florence alongside Cecilia Bartoli in the title role, and Pylades (Gluck: Iphigenie na Tauride) at the Opéra national de Lorraine in Nancy. He regularly cooperates with front orchestras (Czech Philharmonic, PKF – Prague Philharmonia, Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra São Paulo, Warsaw Philharmonic), and conductors (†Jiří Bělohlávek, †James Levine, Keath Lockhart, Alexander Liebreich, Petr Popelka, Gianluca Cappuano, Robert Jindra, Giacomo Sagripanti, Petr Altrichter, Tomáš Netopil, Oxana Lyniv, Emanuel Villaume, etc.). He passionately devotes himself to contemporary music, he collaborates with the British composer Iain Bell.
In 2016, Petr Nekoranec was selected for the Lindemann Program at the Metropolitan Opera for 2 years as the first Czech to be accepted into this important project. In 2014–2016 he was a member of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and its opera studio, where he created a number of roles including the title roles in the operas Le Comte Ory and Albert Herring. For Albert Herring, he was awarded the Bavarian Arts Prize in Munich on 28th November 2016. In January 2018, he received another prestigious award: the Classic Prague Awards for the 2017 Talent of the Year. In autumn 2019, his profile album French Arias (Supraphon; Czech Philharmonic, conductor Christopher Franklin) was released.
Petr is a laureate of a number of prestigious European competitions. In October 2021, he won the 2nd prize in the Vincerò World Singing Competition in Naples, in January 2017 he became the absolute winner of the Francesco Viñas International Competition, held at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, where he also received the Plácido Domingo Award. Petr Nekoranec studied singing at the Pardubice Conservatoire with Jarmila Chaloupková and collaborates with the Italian operatic tenor and tutor Antonio Carangelo.
2023/2024 Season
The artist is represented by Alena Kunertová, Nachtigall Artists,
tel: +420 602 219 611, e-mail: a.kunertova@nachtigallartists.cz.
