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Martin Šrejma

Tenor

Soloist of the Prague National Theatre.
Tenor Martin Šrejma graduated from the Prague Conservatory in the class of Professor J. Kotouč. He became a laureate of the International Singing Competition of Antonín Dvořák in Karlovy Vary in 2002 and 2004, where he also won the Prague National Theatre Award. In 2004 he studied with L. Bizzi and E. Furlotti at the Arrigo Boito Conservatoire Parma, Italy, and took part in master classes of M. Freni in Italy (2009) and T. Krause (2011).

Upcomig engagements include Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni at the ND Brno and a reprisal of Aristée/ Pluton in Orphée aux enfers at the National Theatre Prague.

In the season of 2016/17 his roles at Prague National Theatre included Aristée/Pluton in Orphée aux enfers, Guglielmo Antolstoinoloff (Le convenienze ed inonvenienze teatrali), Roméo (Roméo et Juliette) Die Knusperhexe (Hänsel und Gretel) Macduff (Macbeth), Alfredo Germont (La Traviata), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Don Basillio (Le Nozze di Figaro), Ovčák Jirka (Čert a Káča) and Don Ramiro (La Cenerentola).

Ismaele (Nabucco) at the State Opera, Prague, Il Conte d’Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Laërte(Hamlet) and Fernando (Der Sturm) at the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre, Su-Čong (Das Land des Lächelns) at the South Bohemian Theatre, Števa-Buryja (Jenůfa) and Michelis (Martinu: The Greek Passion) at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo and Don Ottavio at the ND Brno.

He has frequently toured Japan: with the Prague State Opera as Alfredo (2007, 2015) and Spoletta(2011), and with the National Theatre Opera as Tamino (2009, 2014) and Basilio (2013).

In 2005, he became a soloist of the Prague State Opera and in 2012 of the National Theatre Opera in Prague. In Prague opera houses he has created Mozart’s Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) and Basilio (Le nozze di Figaro), Rossini’s Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia) and Don Ramiro (La Cenerentola), Verdi’s the Duke (Rigoletto), Dr. Cajus (Falstaff),  Cassio (Otello), Macduff (Macbeth), Ismael (Nabucco) and Alfredo (La traviata), Wagner’s Steuermann (Der fliegende Holländer) and Walther von der Vogelweide (Wagner: Tannhäuser), Puccini’s Edmondo (Manon Lescaut) and Pong (Turandot), Edgardo (Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor), Jeník (Smetana: The Bartered Bride), Jirka (Dvořák: The Devil and Kate), Lord Essex (Britten: Gloriana), Witch (Humperdick: Hänsel und Gretel), Romeo (Gounod: Romeo et Juliette), Jaroměr (Fibich: Fall of Arkun) and Sou Chong (Lehár: Das Land des Lächelns).

He has guest appeared at the National Theatre Brno, the Moravian-Silesian Theatre in Ostrava (Lindoro in Rossini’s L’italiana in Algeri, Conte d´Albafiorita (Martinů: Mirandolina), Laertes (Thomas: Hamlet), Fernando (Fibich: The Storm) and other roles, at the F. X. Šalda Theatre in Liberec (Nemorino in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore), at the J. K. Tyl Theatre in Plzeň and on the revolving open-air stage at Český Krumlov (the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto)

He also appeared at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo as Michelis (Martinů: The Greek Passion) 2011 and in 2016. In the same year he was singing Dvořák’s Stabat Mater in Auditorium di Milano with Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi.

He also regularly appears as soloist for oratorios, masses and cantatas (Händel: Samson and The Messiah; Bononcini: Astarto; Mysliveček: Ezio; Mozart: Requiem, Davide penitente; Haydn: Die Schöpfung, Bach: Weihnachts-Oratorium, Mendelssohn: Lobgesang – at the Prague Spring Festival 2012, etc.).

Martin performes under the baton of conductors such as Oliver Dohnanyi, Enrico Dovico, Peter Feranec, Gabriele Ferro, Heiko Mathias Förster, John Fiore, Asher Fish, Claus Peter Flor, Marco Guidarini, Christopher Hogwood, Robert Jindra, Jaroslav Kyzlink, Marcello Rota, Kerry Stratton, Gulliaume Tourniaire, Juraj Valčuha, Marco Zambelli and others.

Repertoire
Bizet
Carmen – Remendado – Don José
Boito
Mefistofele – Wagner – Nereo
Britten
Gloriana – Robert Devereux
Donizetti
Lucia di Lammermoor – Sir Edgar of Ravenswood
Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali – Guglielmo Antolstoinoloff
Dvorak
Armida – Sven
Čert a Káča – Ovčák Jirka
Jakobín – Jiří
Rusalka – Der Prinz – Der Förster
Mass in D Major, op. 86 – Tenor
Fibich
Pad Arkuna – Jaroměr
Der Sturm – Fernando
Gounod
Roméo et Juliette – Tybalt – Roméo Montaigu
Haas, P.
Sedm písní v lidovém tónu op. 18 – Voice
Sarlatàn – Deserteur
Hanzlík
Lacrimae Alexandri Magni – Polystratus
Humperdinck
Hänsel und Gretel – The Gingerbread Witch
Janáček
The Excursions of Mr Broucek – Skladatel – Mazal – Leoš Janáček – Harfoboj – Miroslav Zlatník
Jenůfa – Steva Buryja
Z mrtvého domu – Der große Häftling
Osud – Živný
Kát’a Kabanová – Vania Kudrjas
Los celos hacen estrellas – Voice
Věc Makropulos – Albert Gregor
Kraasa
Verlobung im Traum – Paul
Kritschka, J.
The Gentleman in White, or it’s tough scaring ghosts today – Tenor
Lehár
Das Land des Lächelns – Prince Sou-Chong
Die lustige Witwe – Camille of Rosillon
Liszt
Christus – Tenor
Martinů
Mirandolina – Hrabě d’Albafiorita
The Greek Passion – Michelis
Massenet
Werther – Schmidt
Don Quichotte – Rodriguez
Meyerbeer
Robert le diable – Raimbaut
Mozart
Die Zauberflöte – Tamino
Don Giovanni – Don Ottavio
Le nozze di Figaro – Basilio
Così fan tutte – Ferrando
Offenbach
Orphée aux enfers – Aristaeus / Pluto
Orff
Carmina Burana – Tenor
Prokofjew
Lyubov k tryom apelsinam – Der Prinz
Puccini
La fanciulla del West – Harry
Manon Lescaut – Edmond
Turandot – Pong
Tosca – Spoletta- Mario Cavaradossi
Gianni Schicchi – Gherardo
Rossini
L’italiana in Algeri – Lindoro
La Cenerentola – Don Ramiro
Il barbiere di Siviglia – Der Graf Almaviva
Rota
Il cappello di paglia di Firenze – Fadinard
Smetana
Prodaná nevěsta – Hans – Springer
The Two Widows – Tomik – Ladislaus
Dalibor – Vitek
The Kiss – Lukáš
Tajemství – Skřivánek
Čertova stěna – Jarek
Libuse – 4. žnec
První písně – Voice
Жаворонок – Soloist
Braniboři v Čechách – Junos
Strauss II
Eine Nacht in Venedig – Caramello
Die Fledermaus – Alfred
Thomas
Hamlet – Laërte
Tschaikowski, P. I.
Yevgeny Onegin – Lenski
Ullmann
Der Sturz des Antichrist – Der Ausrufer
Verdi
Falstaff – Doktor Cajus
Otello – Cassio
Don Carlo (Italian version) – Der Graf von Lerma – Ein königlicher Herold
Nabucco – Ismaele
Macbeth – Macduff
La Traviata – Alfredo Germont
Rigoletto – Der Herzog von Mantua
Wagner, Richard
Der fliegende Holländer – Daland’s Steersman
Tannhäuser – Walther of the Vogelweide
Tristan und Isolde – A shepherd
Weinberger
Svanda Dudák – Babinsky