Petr Nekoranec
About this Artist
Tenor Petr Nekoranec (Tempo) is one of the most outstanding talents of the young Czech singing generation. He started the 2024/25 season with his debut at the Polish National Opera in Warsaw in the role of Stefan in Moniuszko’s The Haunted Manor. He performs for the first time at Teatro Real Madrid, Opéra de Lille, and in Lyon, as David in Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s David et Jonathas. He also sings his first Rodolfo (La bohème) at the National Theatre Opera in Prague, where he has been a soloist since the 2021/22 season and has assumed many roles. This season on his home stage, he performs Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Roméo (Roméo et Juliette), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Peppe (I Pagliacci), The Singer (Der Rosenkavalier), Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore), and Vít (The Secret). In December 2024, he was Ernesto in a concert performance of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale with the Prague Philharmonia under the baton of Marco Armiliato in Prague’s Smetana Hall.
In the 2023/24 season, Nekoranec appeared as Ramiro in Rossini’s La cenerentola at Smetana Hall, Arbace (Idomeneo) at the Opéra national du Capitole in Toulouse, and David (David et Jonathas) at the Théâtre de Caen, Opéra national de Lorraine in Nancy, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, and Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg. In July 2024, he made his debut at the Aix-en-Provence Festival as Pisandro (Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria).
Between 2018 and 2020, Nekoranec was a soloist at Stuttgart State Opera, where he performed Almaviva, Ramiro, and Ernesto; Asprando (Porpora’s Carlo Il Calvo) at the Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth; Almaviva in Toulouse; Oronte (Handel’s Alcina) in Florence alongside Cecilia Bartoli; and Pylade (Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride) at the Opéra national de Lorraine. He has regularly collaborated with the Czech Philharmonic, Prague Philharmonia, Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, Prague Symphony Orchestra, São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, and Warsaw Philharmonic, as well as conductors Jiří Bělohlávek, James Levine, Keith Lockhart, Alexander Liebreich, Petr Popelka, Gianluca Capuano, Robert Jindra, Giacomo Sagripanti, Petr Altrichter, Tomáš Netopil, Oksana Lyniv, Emmanuel Villaume, and others. He is passionate about contemporary music and collaborates with the British composer Iain Bell.
In 2016, Petr Nekoranec was the first Czech to be selected for the prestigious Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at New York’s Metropolitan Opera. From 2014 to 2016, he was a member of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.
Nekoranec is a laureate of several prestigious European competitions. In October 2021, he won second prize in the Vincerò World Singing Competition in Naples. In January 2017 he won the Francesco Viñas International Competition, held at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, where he also received the Plácido Domingo Award. He studied singing at the Pardubice Conservatory with Jarmila Chaloupková and collaborates with the Italian opera tenor and tutor Antonio Carangelo.