The Czech baritone Tomáš Král is one of the most sought-after young singers of his voice type. Since 2025 he has worked with European ensembles such as Collegium Vocale Gent, Vox Luminis, the B’Rock Orchestra, the Wrocław Baroque Orchestra, Le Poème Harmonique, Capella Cracoviensis and Collegium 1704. He has performed at renowned concert venues such as the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Wigmore Hall, the Philharmonie de Paris and Bozar in Brussels, and festivals such as La Chaise-Dieu, the festivals of Ambronay, Sablé, Aldeburgh and Edinburgh, MA Brugge, the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, the Prague Spring International Music Festival, the Dresden Music Festival, the Styriarte Festival and the Salzburg Festival.
Highlights of the 2025/26 season have included Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with L’Arpeggiata under Christina Pluhar at Müpa Budapest, Rameau’s Les Boréades under Reinoud Van Mechelen in Toulouse and Versailles, Handel’s Radamisto at the International Handel Festival in Halle and a concert tour with Raphaël Pichon and Pygmalion. He now returns to Salzburg with Jordi Savall.
Earlier highlights included Pierre Audi’s staged production of Bach’s St John Passion at the Dutch National Opera, Mozart’s Requiem at the KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen and Keiser’s Octavia with lautten compagney Berlin.
His wide-ranging operatic repertory also includes the title role of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, Apollo in Handel’s Apollo e Dafne, Cavalli’s La Calisto, Vivaldi’s Griselda, Rameau’s Dardanus, Pergolesi’s La serva padrona, Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Ottokar (Der Freischütz), Stárek (Jenůfa) and the title role of Suppé’s Boccaccio.
On the concert platform he has sung in Bach’s oratorios and Passions, Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine, Handel’s Israel in Egypt, Telemann’s Der Tag des Gerichts and Jacob Schuback’s oratorio Die Jünger zu Emaus.
His discography includes rarities such as Jan Dismas Zelenka’s Missa votiva and Lamentationes Ieremiae prophetae, Marcin Mielczewski’s Vesperae Dominicales, Janáček’s Moravian Folk Songs and Bach’s Mass in B minor. In 2022 he released his solo album Kings in the North with Aparté.
Tomáš Král received his musical training at the Janáček Academy in his home city of Brno, supplemented by vocal mentoring from Ivan Kusjner.
