Josef Kovačič

Josef Kovačič comes from Liberec, with which his singing beginnings in Severáček and Cum decore gymnasium are connected. He started singing opera at the age of sixteen at the ZUŠ in Liberec, and also privately, especially with Svatava Šubrtová. He continued his studies at the Prague Conservatory under the direction of Jiří Kubík and at the Music Academy of Performing Arts in Prague under the direction of Martin Bárta. In the summer of 2015, he debuted on the professional stage in the role of Hermann (Hoffmann's Tales) at the prestigious music festival Bregenz. In the following years, he performed, for example, as Hades and Pluto in a historically informed staging of Monteverdi's Orfeo on the Pilsen stage, or as Beneš in Smetana's Dalibor in České Budějovice. He is the laureate of a number of domestic prizes and is engaged in concert activities in the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy and Spain and collaborates with ensembles such as the North Bohemian Philharmonic in Teplice and the Krkonoše Symphony Orchestra. Since 2019, he has been a regular soloist at the F. X. Šalda Theatre, currently performing there in Janáček's Příhoda lišky Vistrouška as the Badger and the Parson, as Masetto in Mozart's *Don Giovanni* and the priest Nourabad in Bizet's Pearl Hunters< /em>.