Another guest Ivan Dlaska in the show From the archive of personalities is Martin Bárta.

Artistic distraction Martin Bárty includes a role performed across many Czech theaters. He has portrayed the role in the past Prince in the opera The Engagement in a Dream by Hans Krása, Scarpia in Puccini’s Tosca, Nabucco in Verdi’s opera of the same name. He also created this role on the stage of the Moravian Theater in Olomouc together with Beethoven Don Pizarro in Fidelio. With the roles of Don Pizarro and Scarpia, they presented themselves on live television during the covid period of closed theaters. In the spring, she created a role on the stage of the theater FX Šalda in Liberec Jaga in Verdi’s opera Otello, for which he won an award Thalia in the male opera category. In a role Nabucco later he also performed at the opera festival in Bergen, Norway. In June 2022, he performed the role of Verdi’s Macbeth in a large open air performance in Lochotín near Pilsen.

Martin Bárta opened this year’s new production of Smetana’s opera Dalibor in Pilsen, where he played his favorite role King Vladislav. This role awaits him at the end of the season also in Ostrava. He studied a demanding role at the Prague State Opera Faninala in Richard Strauss’s opera The Pink Cavalier, which premiered on November 24 under the direction of the famous director of the Zurich Opera, Andreas Homoki. In January, he enters the Prague production of Dvořák’s Jakobín as Oh God and also participates in a concert performance of Stravinsky’s oratorio Oedipus Rex at the National Theater as Creon conducted by John Fiore. He is set to debut in the role in May Bohumír Dvořák’s opera Armida at the National Theater in Prague under the baton of Robert Jindra. In addition to these activities, attention is given pedagogical activities – is also the head of the Department of Singing and Opera Direction at Prague’s HAMU.

Martin Bárta since 1997 he has been a regular guest on the stages of the National Theater in Prague, Brno, SND in Bratislava, NDM in Ostrava, FX Šalda Theater in Liberec and DJKT in Pilsen in the most demanding roles of the baritone repertoire (Macbeth, Nabucco, Rigoletto, Iago, Scarpia, Revírník, Count Capulet, Don Giovanni, Almaviva, Fotis, Kalina, Přemysl, Prus, Devil, Robert Cecil, Ruprecht, Cardillac, Absalon, Boris Izmajlov, Telramund, Renato). She has a lot behind her hosting abroad: in 1999 he performed in Palermo as Harašta and at the Festival in Verbier as Schaunard. In 2007, he sang in Vienna, Amsterdam and Aix-en-Provence in Janáček’s opera From the Dead House directed by Patrice Chéreau and conducted by Pierre Boulez. At the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg, he performed under the direction of Robert Carsen in 2011 and 2015 as Baron Prus, in 2013 and 2016 as Harašta and Šiškov. In 2009 he sang Amonasr in Salzburg, in 2013 Baron Prus at Teatro La Fenice in Venice. In 2017 he made his debut at the Opéra Bastille in Paris in Janáček’s opera From the Dead House and in 2018 he performed as Klingsor in Chemnitz, two years later as Telramund . In autumn 2018, he created the role of Baron Prussia with the ensemble of the Flemish Opera Antwerp.

He will reveal more Martin Bárta in a show that premieres in Thursday, December 1 at 7:00 p.m. Listen to the replays on Sunday 4.12. at 10:00 a.m. or on Tuesday 6.12. at 10:00 p.m.

Photo: Petra Hajská