Jiří Sulženko

Jiří Sulženko began his musical career as a double -bass player of the National Theater Orchestra in Prague. He graduated as his second field at the Prague Conservatory. After the artistic beginnings in Olomouc and Brno, he was a soloist of the Prague National Theater in 1991–2000. Since the 2012/13 season he has again been a soloist of the National Theater Opera, since 2008 he has been a soloist of Saarlandisches Staatstheater Saarbrücken. His most prominent roles include Leporello, Papageno, Figaro, Kecal, the district, Zachariáš, Scarpia, Bartolo, etc. With a number of roles he performed on foreign stages. He has performed in many European countries, the US, Japan, Brazil and Australia, where he cooperated with domestic and foreign ensembles and conductors. The most significant successes include performances at the Festivals Prague Spring, Smetana's Litomyšl, Brucknerfest in Linz, Ravenna Festival , at the Festival in Edinburg, Le Mans, in Perth with Stuttgart orchestra with Yomuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra. He has worked with a number of important conductors (Sir Charles Mackerras, Zoltán Pesco, Zdeněk Košler, Bohumil Gregor, Václav Neumann, Zdeněk Mácal, Ondrej Lenárd, Aldo Cecccato, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Leopold Hager, Jiří Bělohlávek