During the 2026/27 season, Plachetka returns to the Wiener Staatsoper in the title role of Il barbiere di Siviglia and to the Metropolitan Opera as Marcello in La boheme. He also appears in two new productions for the National Theatre, Prague, debuting the title role of Sweeney Todd and as Vok Vítkovic in The Devil’s Wall. His many concert appearances include Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne (Renaud Capuçon) and Berlioz’s La damnation de Faust with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland (Anthony Hermus). Last season Plachetka debuted the role of Escamillo in Carmen for the Metropolitan Opera and sang his first Wotan in Das Rheingold for the National Theatre, Prague.
Plachetka made his debut for the Wiener Staatsoper as Schaunard in La bohéme and has since performed Figaro and Il conte in Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte, Publio in La clemenza di Tito, Dulcamara in L`elisir d`amore, Riccardo Forth in I Puritanti, Dottor Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Alidoro in La Cenerentola, Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Mustafa in Italiana in Algeri, Paolo Albiani in Simon Boccanegra, Alfio in Cavalleria Rusticana and Tonio in Pagliacci. For the Metropolitan Opera he has sung Leporello, Guglielmo, Masetto in Don Giovanni, Figaro and Il conte in Le nozze di Figaro, Garibaldo in Rodelinda, Belcore in L'elisir d'amore and Balstrode in Peter Grimes. Previous roles in Prague have included Mícha in Smetana's The Bartered Bride, Don Giovanni, Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Figaro, Papageno, Nardo in La finta giardiniera, Argante in Rinaldo and Guglielmo.
Highlights elsewhere include: Il conte and Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro with the Houston Grand Opera; Alidoro at the Paris Opera; Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia and Papageno in Die Zauberflöte at the Lyric Opera of Chicago; Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro for Palm Beach Opera; Forrester in The Cunning Little Vixen for the National Theatre Brno; Jaroslav Prus in The Makropulos Affair for the Deutsche Staatsoper, Berlin; and appearances at the Salzburg Festival in productions of Benvenuto Cellini, Rusalka, Le nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberflöte and Don Giovanni.
In concert, Plachetka has worked with many eminent conductors including Valery Gergiev, Daniel Harding, Louis Langrée, Marc Minkowski, John Nelson, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Robin Ticciati and Franz Welser-Möst. He sang Mozart’s Requiem for the Bayerische Rundfunk (Mariss Jansons), Teatro all Scala Milan (Thomas Guggeis) and Salzburg Mozartwoche, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic (Michael Tilson Thomas), Mahler’s Symphony No.8 with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and Czech Philharmonic (Semyon Bychkov), Bach’s Mass in B minor with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Riccardo Muti), Advent concerts with the Wiener Symphoniker (Petr Popelka), Spectre’s Bride at the Wiener Konzerthaus and Dvořák’s Te Deum at the Edinburgh Festival (Jakub Hrůša). In Baroque repertoire he has performed Theodora, L'Allegro and Saul with Arcangelo (Jonathan Cohen) and appeared with the Camerata Antique Seoul, Collegium Marianum, Ensemble Baroque and Solamente Naturali. He has made many recital appearances in Vienna, Prague, Graz and London.
Plachetka’s discography includes Handel’s Oratorio Arias with the Czech Ensemble Baroque, Antonin Dvořák Songs with Gary Matthewman, Adam Plachetka LIVE with the Filharmonie Bohuslava Martinů and Robert Jindra, and two live recordings on the Deutsche Grammophon label: La Clemenza di Tito and Cosi fan tutte with Yannick Nézét-Séguin for the Baden-Baden Festival.
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