Boris Prýgl
Boris Prýgl
Bass-baritone Boris Prýgl ranks among the most talented Czech young singers. He successfully went thru Young Artists program of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, where he has assumed the roles of Morales in Carmen, Ping in Turandot, the prince Ottokar in Der Freischütz, the Hunter in Rusalka, etc. His artistic commitments in the 2021/22 season include the roles of Guglielmo in Così fan tutte at the National Theatre in Prague and Don Giovanni at the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava, a concert with Pretty Yende at the Smetana Hall in Prague, Dvořák's Rusalka (role: Gamekeeper) with the Czech Philharmonic under the baton of Semyon Bychkov, an advent recital in Prague, and others.
Boris Prýgl is a laureate of several singing competition and the absolute winner of the 2015 Antonín Dvořák Singing Competition in Karlovy Vary where he also received several special awards including Prague National Theatre Award and Prague Spring IMC Award. He took 2nd place at the Ferruccio Tagliavini Competition in Austria, along with an award for the best interpretation of W. A. Mozart. In July 2017, he was a finalist of two prestigious competitions: Belvedere and Plácido Domingo’s Operalia. In September 2019, he was granted the award of the Director of the Vienna State Opera Dominique Meyer at the Stella Maris Vocal Competition.
Boris Prýgl studied with Zlatica Livorová and graduated from the Academy of Music in Bratislava, Slovakia in the class of Peter Mikuláš. He gained his first stage experience at the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava. On this stage, he introduced himself as Leporello (Don Giovanni), Don Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Don Fernando (Fidelio), Pietro (Simon Boccanegra), Brander (La damnation de Faust), and the title role in Paisiello’s opera Il re Teodoro in Venezia. In May 2017, he performed a solo recital within the Prague Spring IMF, and he assumed the role of the Governor in the Czech premiere of Rossini’s Le comte Ory at the National Theatre Brno. In 2017–2019, he was a member of the opera studio of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.