Vojtěch Pelka countertenor

Countertenor Vojtěch Pelka graduated from the Jan Deyl Conservatory in Prague in the singing class of Prof. Barbara Klozová Velehradská. Since the beginning of his studies in classical singing he has successfully participated in many international singing competitions. At the 2019 Czech Republic Conservatory Competition he won 2nd place and a special prize for his interpretation of aria by W. A. Mozart.
 
Vojtěch Pelka is devoted to opera and baroque music. He has collaborated with the Guiyang Symphony Orchestra, with whom he has toured China, as well as with the Pilsen Philharmonic, the State Chamber Orchestra, Musica Florea, Ensemble Damian, MDO Orchestra, RUN OPERUN, and the Viaggio musicale ensemble. He has performed at festivals such as Opera Schrattenbach, Theatrum Kuks, Musica Bayreuth, Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik, and many others.
 
In the 2019/2020 season he made his debut at the Silesian Theatre Opava in the role of Cherubino in W. A. Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro. Shortly afterwards, he played the title role of Emperor Nero in Monteverdi's opera The Coronation of Poppea at the Josef Kajetán Tyl Theatre in Pilsen. In 2023 he was a guest in the Margräfliches Opernhaus at the Musica Bayreuth Festival.
 
In the 2022/2023 season, he performed the title role of Sextus in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito for the Moravian Theatre Olomouc. At the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik he performed the title role of Morast in Vivaldi's opera La fida ninfa. This year he appeared in the role of Jupiter in the premiere of Sebastian Durón's baroque Spanish opera La guerra de los gigantes, which he staged with the ensemble Musica Florea.
 
Vojtěch Pekla has recorded several CDs, including the dramaturgically unique Alessandro nell'India with arias from the operas of the same name by Ignaz Holzbauer and Jan Antonín Koželuh, accompanied by Ensemble 18+ and Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim.