The Slovak Gustáv Beláček graduated at the Bratislava Academy of Music, the Mozart Academy in Prague and the International Bach Academy in Stuttgart. He was a prize-winner at several international competitions.
In the Slovak National Opera Theatre, he has been heard amongst others as Dulcamara (“L’ Elisir d’Amore“), Figaro (“Le Nozze di Figaro“), Leporello (“Don Giovanni“), Bartolo “(Il Barbiere”), Bluebeard (“Bluebeard’s Castle”), Vodnik (“Rusalka“), Thibaut (The Maid of Orleans”), Gremin (“Eugene Onegin“) and Pimen (“Boris Godunow“).
Further engagements led him to the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Théâtre de la Monnaie, the Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg, the Copenhagen Royal Opera, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, the Staatstheater Karlsruhe, the Staatstheater in Nurnberg, the Semper Oper Dresden, the Opernhaus in Graz, the Prague National Theatre, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the Arena di Verona, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Firenze, the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto as well as to USA, Brazil, Israel and Japan, performing roles such as Osmin (“Entführung aus dem Serail”), Raimondo (“Lucia di Lammermoor“), Mustafa („L’Italiana in Algeri“), Don Profondo (“Il Viaggio a Reims”), Ramfis and Il Re (“Aida”), Nourabad (“Les Pecheurs de Perles”), Walter (“Luisa Miller“), Zaccaria (“Nabucco”), Dr. Kolenaty (“The Makropulos Affair”), Gremin (“Eugen Onegin”), Harasta (“The Cunning Little Vixen”), Vodnik (“Rusalka”) and “Bluebeard’s Castle”.
Gustáv Beláček is a regular soloist with the Slovak and Czech Philharmonic Orchestras and has performed at some of the most prestigious concert venues and music festivals, with renowned conductors such as Marin Alsop, Serge Baudo, Alberto Zedda, Jiri Belohlavek, Charles Dutoit, Mariss Jansons, Zdenek Macal, Sir Charles Mackerras, Kurt Masur, Seiji Ozawa, Libor Pesek, Dennis Russell Davies, Frédéric Chaslin, Daniel Oren, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Yuri Termikanov, Juraj Valcuha, Tomas Hanus, Tomas Netopil, Jakub Hrusa.
Mr. Belacek records with Opus, Supraphon, Slovart, Mezzo Mezzo, ARTHaus, Delos, Harmonia Mundi, Mirabilia, RadioServis, Diskant, BR Klassik, BBC recording, BrilliantClassics and Naxos.
The past season, he performed Ramfis (“Aida“) in Prague, Klagenfurt and Bratislava, Il Re(“AIDA”) at the Arena di Verona, Zaccaria in Kosice, Villach and Brno, Dr. Kolenaty in Nurnberg (staging Robert Carsen), Berlin and Munich (Dir. Tomas Hanus), Tom (“Ballo di Maschera”) in the Theater Basel, Vodník (“Rusalka“) at the Dresden Semperoper (Dir:Tomas Netopil, staging Stefan Herheim) as well as in Graz, Basel, Ljubljana and Micha in “The Bartered Bride” with the BBC (Dir: Jiří Bělohlávek) at the Barbican Center in London (CD release).
Current and future performances include Zaccaria, Leporello, Scarpia and Vodnik in Janacek Oper in Brno, Bartolo in the Il Barbiere di Seviglia, Gianni Schicchi and Dr. Kolenaty in Bratislava (Peter Konwitschny) as well as in Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Munich and with the BBC at Proms in ROH (Dir.Jiri Belohlavek).
Repertoire
Opera
Bartók
Bluebeard’s Castle – Count Bluebeard (Hungarian)
Baumgartner
Maria Theresia- Gyula Batthyany
Bellini
La Sonnambula – Count Rodolfo
Bizet
Le Pecheurs de Perles – Nourabad
Carmen- Escamillo
Britten
Peter Grimes – Svallow
Donizetti
Caterina Cornaro – Mocenigo
Don Pasquale – Don Pasquale
L’Elisir d’Amore – Dulcamara
Lucia di Lammermoor – Raimondo
Dvořák
Rusalka – Water Gnome
Jakobin – Count Vilem
The Stubborn Lovers – Řeřicha
Giordano
Andrea Chernier – Roucher
Gluck
La rencontre imprevue – Le calender
Gounod
Faust – Mephistopheles
Romeo et Juliette – Duca di Verona
Handel
Alcina – Melisso
Ibert
Persée et Andromede – Monstre Cathos
Janáček
The Cunning Little Vixen – Forester, Harašta
Katya Kabanova – Dikoj
The Makropulos Affair- Dr. Kolenatý
Krajci
Embassy words
Kusser
Erindo – Erindo
Martinu
The plays of Mary- The Devil
Mascagni
Cavaleria rusticana- Alfio
Mozart
Zaide – Osmin
Bastien und Bastienne – Colas
Die Entfuhrung aud dem Serail – Osmin
Le Nozze di Figaro – Figaro
Don Giovanni – Don Giovanni, Leporello, Masetto, Commendatore
Cosi fan Tutte – Don Alfonso
Die Zauberflote – Sarastro
Mussorgsky
Boris Godunov – Pimen
Nicolai
Lustige Weiber von Windsor – Falstaff
Puccini
La Boheme – Colline
Turandot – Timur
Tosca- Scarpia
Manon Lescaut – Géront du Ravoir
Gianni Schicchi- Gianni Schicchi
Ravel
A Spanish Hour-Don Inigo Gomez
Rossini
La Cenerentola – Alidoro
Il Barbiere di Siviglia – Bartolo
Il viaggio a Reims – Don Profondo
L’Italiana in Algeri – Mustafa
Shostakovitch
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk – Boris
Smetana
The Bartered Bride – Kecal, Micha
Strauss
Ariadne – Truffaldin
Elektra – Orestes
Stravinsky
Oidipus Rex – Tiresias, Creon, The Messenger
Les Noces
Tchaikovsky
Eugene Onegin – Prince Gremin
Iolanta – Bertrand, King Rene
The Maid of Orleans – Thibaut
Thomas
Hamlet- Horatio
Verdi
Rigoletto – Sparafucille
La Traviata – Doctor
Nabucco – Zaccaria, Il Gran Sacerdote
Luisa Miller – Walter
Aida – Il Re, Ramfis
I vespri Siciliani – Procida
Macbeth – Banquo
Wagner
Tannhauser – Minstrel Biterolf
Weber
Der Freischutz – Caspar
Weill
Seven Deadly Sins – Mother
Zeljenka
Elisabeth Bathory – Paraska
Concert
J.S.Bach
Anonymous Cantata BWV 142
Cantatas no 56, 61, 97, 82, 88
Mass in B minor BWV 232
St. John’s Passion BWV 245
Christmas Oratorio BWV 248
Báchorek
Lidice
Bartók
Cantata profana
Beethoven
Missa in C major op.86
Missa Solemnis op.123
Symphony no.9, op.125
Italian Songs
Bella
Mass in E flat
Missa Brevis
Berlioz
The Childhood of Christ op.25
Romeo and Juliet Op. 17
Bottesini
Messa da Requiem
Brahms
Requiem
Cimarosa
Requiem
Cikker
Five folk songs
Dvořák
Requiem Op 89.
Stabat mater Op 58.
The Spectre’s Bride Op 69.
St Ludmila Op 71.
Te Deum Op 103.
Biblical Songs Op 99.
Three latin spiritual songs
Fauré
Requiem
Glinka
Romances
Gounod
Messe solenelle de Saint Caecilie
Haydn, J.
The Seven Last Words Hob: XX 2
The Creation Hob: XXI 2
The Seasons Hob: XXII 3
Nelsonmesse in D minor Hob: XXII 11
Theresienmesse in B major Hob: XXII 12
Schopfungmesse in B major Hob: XXII 13
Haydn, Michael
Missa Sti. Cyrilli et Methodii
Händel
Messiah HWV 56.
Händel/Mozart
Messiah (german)
Te Deum Laudamus
Hatrík
The lost Children
Ibert
Don Quichotte Songs
Iršai
Proglas
Janáček
Glagolitic Mass
Kafenda
Songs
Liszt
St. Elisabeth
Via Crucis
Mahler
Lieder aus eine Fahrendes Gesellen
Martinu
The Epic of Gilgamesh(Bariton, Bass)
Le Jazz
The Opening Of The Wells
Spalicek
Slovak Songs
Two Songs
Massenet
Marie-Magdeleine (Judas)
Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Paulus op.36
Eliah op.70
Mozart
Brevis Mass in D major K.194
Mass in C major “Coronation” K.317
Mass in C major K.337
Mass in D minor K.626
Great Mass in C minor
6 Concert Arias for Bass
Songs
Mussorgsky
Songs and Dances of Death
Part
Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi
Pascha/Zrunek
Missa pro festis Natalitiis
Puccini
Messa di Gloria
Rossini
Petite Messe Solennelle
Stabat Mater
Serate Musicali
Ryba
Czech Christmas Mass
Schubert
Mass in G major D.167
Stabat Mater D.383
Mass in A flat major D.678
Mass in E flat major D.950
Winterreise D.911
Schwanengesang D.957
Schubert/Brahms
6 Schubert Songs with Orchestra
Schumann
Requiem op.148
Schutz
Deutsche Begrabnis Messe
Stravinsky
Oedipus Rex – Creon / The Messenger, Tiresias
Suchoň
Three songs
Sheperd´s songs
Szymanowski
Stabat Mater op.53
Shostakovich
Symphony no.13 “Babiy yar” op.113
Symphony no.14 op.135
Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Op. 145
Tchaikovsky
Romances
Urbanec
Blahoslavlen mir
Verdi
Requiem
Zeljenka
Aztek´s songs
Psalmus