Tomáš Král

Since 2005 baritone Tomáš Král has appeared with many of the best-known European ensembles, including Collegium Vocale Gent, La Venexiana, Vox Luminis, Holland Baroque, B’Rock Orchestra, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra, Collegium 1704, Collegium Marianum, and Musica Florea. He has performed at the Prague Spring Festival, the Dresdner and Salzburger Festspiele, the festivals of La Chaise-Dieu, Ambronay, and Sablé, and the Early Music Festivals in Bruges and Utrecht, while other venues have included the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Wigmore Hall, and BOZAR in Brussels.

Tomáš Král’s wide-ranging opera roles include Guglielmo (Mozart’s Così fan tutte), Ottokar (Weber’s Der Freischütz), Uberto (Pergolesi’s La serva padrona), Giove (Cavalli’s La Calisto), Ernesto (Haydn’s Il mondo della luna), Apollo (Monteverdi’s Orfeo, Handel’s Apollo e Dafne), and the title-role in Suppe’s Boccaccio. He notably took part in the extraordinary staging of Bach’s St John Passion directed by Pierre Audi for Dutch National Opera, and of Mozart’s Requiem at the Kunstfestspiele Herrenhausen and Theater Giessen, where he also took the title-role in a rare production of Telemann’s version of Handel’s Riccardo Primo. The baritone’s last seasons were defined by Baroque opera roles like Erode in Stradella’s San Giovanni Battista, and Pimpinone in Albinoni’s Vespetta e Pimpinone.

Tomáš Král’s many recordings include such rarities as the Missa votiva and the Lamentationes Jeremiae Profetae by the great Bohemian master Jan Dismas Zelenka, a CD of rarities by the early baroque Polish composer Marcin Mielczewski, Bach’s Mass in B minor with Collegium 1704, and Leoš Janacek’s Moravian Folk Songs. In 2022, Tomáš Král released Kings in the North, his first solo album (Aparté) recorded with Wrocław Baroque Orchestra conducted by Jarosław Thiel.