Born in the Czech Republic in 1990, baritone Roman Hoza studied in Brno and Vienna and took part in various masterclasses. He was a participant of the Young Singers Project by the Salzburger Festspiele and the Opera Studio of the Opéra National de Lyon in 2014. In 2015/16 he was a member of the Opera Studio of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and could be heard there as Moralès, Marullo or Silvano. In 2015 Roman made his debut in Prague National Theatre as Mozart’s Figaro and remained a regular guest there (Dandini, Mamma Agata, Don Giovanni, Harlekin).
Since 2016 he has been a permanent ensemble member at the National Theatre Brno where he appeared in many key baritone repertoire roles (Don Giovanni, Guglielmo, Rossini’s Figaro and Rimbaud, Belcore, Escamillo, Hamlet, Marcello, Count Danilo, Jaufré Rudel (Saariaho’s Amour de loin). Guest engagements have taken him to Lyon, Gothenburg, Cologne, Kaiserslautern or Nürnberg.
In 2019 Roman returned to Deutsche Oper am Rhein. First as a guest (Dandini) and since 2020/21 as a permanent ensemble member (Belcore, Conte Almaviva and Papageno, Taddeo, among others). In the 2024/25 season he can be heard there in the new production of Maxwell Davies’The Lighthouse as Blazes in title role of Don Giovanni.
Roman’s rich concert repertoire includes pieces like Carmina Burana, Dvořák’s Te Deum or Haydn’s Schöpfung and Jahreszeiten. In 2023 he performed Dvořák’s Spectre’s Bride in Rome with Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under the baton of Jakub Hrůša.
He is also sought-after interpreter of baroque music and songs (mainly Schumann, Mahler, Ibert, Ravel). Roman cooperates regularly with Václav Luks and Collegium 1704 (Jesus in Johannespassion, Messiah, Melisso in Alcina…).
You could have seen and heard Roman on some Opera Vision streams. In Janáček’s pieces as Harašta in Cunning little Vixen and Gorjančikov in From the House of the Dead or as Bohuš in Dvořák’s Jakobín. He also appears in currently filmed staged version of Händel’s Messiah from Český Krumlov.
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