Born in Prague, Adam Plachetka graduated from the Prague Conservatory, where he studied under Professor Luděk Löbl, and from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (HAMU). In 2005, he made his debut at the National Theatre in Prague, where he has since performed roles such as Don Giovanni, Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro, The Barber of Seville), Nardo (La finta giardiniera), Argante (Rinaldo), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Přemysl (Libuše), Vladislav (Dalibor), and Kalina (The Secret).
He performs regularly at the Metropolitan Opera in New York (Don Giovanni, L’elisir d’amore, La nozze di Figaro, Così fan tutte, Rodelinda, Peter Grimes), at the Vienna State Opera (La Bohème, Alcina, L’elisir d’amore, La clemenza di Tito, L’Italiana in Algeri, La Cenerentola, Don Pasquale, I Puritani), and at the Salzburg Festival(Benvenuto Cellini, Rusalka, Don Giovanni, La nozze di Figaro, The Magic Flute).
His other operatic engagements include the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London (Don Giovanni, L’elisir d’amore), the Baden-Baden Festival (Così fan tutte, La clemenza di Tito), Glyndebourne (La nozze di Figaro), Carnegie Hall in New York (Salome), Deutsche Oper and Deutsche Staatsoper in Berlin (Don Giovanni, La nozze di Figaro), Teatro alla Scala (Così fan tutte, L’Italiana in Algeri), Lyric Opera of Chicago (La nozze di Figaro, The Magic Flute), Houston Grand Opera (La nozze di Figaro), and the Opéra de Paris (La Cenerentola).
On the concert stage, he has appeared at the Musikverein in Vienna and Graz, Wigmore Hall in London, Usher Hall in Edinburgh, Herkulessaal in Munich, the Vienna Konzerthaus, Konserthuset in Stockholm, and Prague’s Municipal House and Rudolfinum.
He has collaborated with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Radio Symphony Orchestras of France, Bavaria, Austria, and the Czech Republic, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, and the Budapest Festival Orchestra.
Adam Plachetka has made recordings for Arte, Arthaus Musik, Capriccio, Clasart Classics, Czech Television, Czech Radio, Deutsche Grammophon, Mezzo, Naxos, Nibiru, Orfeo, ORF, Radioservis, Servus TV, Supraphon, and Unitel Classica.
He has performed under the batons of conductors such as Marco Armiliato, Daniel Barenboim, Mariss Jansons, Fabio Luisi, Riccardo Muti, Andris Nelsons, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Christian Thielemann, and Franz Welser-Möst.
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