Martin Bárta
Martin Bárta studied singing at the Pardubice Conservatory with prof. Svatava Šubrtová, at the AMU in Prague with prof. René Tuček and privately with Jack Strauch.
He worked as a soloist of AUS Prague (1990–1991) and in the years 1991–1995 he devoted himself to teaching in the fields of singing, piano and music theory at the University of Pedagogy and ZUŠ in Hradec Králové. He was also the voice teacher of the boys' choir Boni Pueri. Martin Bárta has been teaching solo singing at the AMU in Prague since 2006.
In 1994, he began a three-year engagement at the F. X. Šalda Theater in Liberec, and since the beginning of 1997 he has been a soloist at the Prague State Opera, where he made his debut as the Herald in Richard Wagner's Lohengrin. He created a number of roles from his core repertoire here (Onegin, Valentin, Germont, Papageno, Escamillo, Guglielmo, Don Giovanni, Marcello, Amonasro, Nabucco, Rigoletto, Macbeth, Scarpia, Shujsky, etc.). He is a regular guest in the national theaters in Prague, Brno, Ostrava (La traviata, Nabucco, Ohnivý anděl, etc.) and SND in Bratislava. In 2005, he was awarded LIBUŠKA - the prize of the Czech theater critics for the best performance in the role of the Miller in Novák's Lantern.
Foreign tours took him to Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France, the Netherlands, England, South Korea, Japan and the USA. In 2007, he performed in a successful production of Janáček's opera From the Dead House as part of the Wiener Festwochen, the Holland Festival in Amsterdam and the festival in Aix-en-Provence, directed by Patrice Chéreau and conducted by Pierre Boulez. In 2009 he performed at the Salzburg Festival as Amonasro (Aida); in 2011 he performed as Baron Prus (The Makropulos Affair) and in 2013 as Harašta (The Adventures of the Little Fox) and Šiškov (From the Dead House) at the National Opera du Rhin in Strasbourg directed by Robert Carsen.
In 2012-2013 he performed at the International Opera Festival in Miskolc, at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, at the Summer Opera Festival in the Turkish Aspend and the International Festival in Regensburg (Regensburg). In 2014 he guested as Marcello (Bohemian) at the Budapest State Opera under the baton of Paolo Carignani