Opera

Černoch has appeared in a number of operas by his compatriot Leoš Janáček - as Boris Grigorjevic in Káťa Kabanová at the Berlin and Stuttgart State Operas; as Steva and Laca Clemen in Jenůfa in Munich, Riga, Stuttgart and Zurich and as Albert Gregor in Věc Makropulos, again in Munich. From the Czech repertoire also come the roles of Michelis in Martinů's The Greek Passion, the Prince in Antonín Dvořák's Rusalka, which he has performed in Brussels, Zurich, Glyndebourne, Naples, Paris and Riga, and the Jenik in Bedřich Smetana's The Bartered Bride, which he sang at the Opéra National de Paris. From the Russian repertoire, Černoch sings Vladimir in Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin's Prince Igor, Lykov in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride and two Tchaikovsky roles - Lensky in Eugene Onegin and Vaudémont in Iolanta. He made his debut with the latter role in January 2012 at the Teatro Real in Madrid, directed by Peter Sellars and conducted by Teodor Currentzis.

Černoch defines his repertoire in the middle of the triangle lyric tenor, Jugendlicher Heldentenor and tenorespinto - with a clear focus on the Italian and French operatic oeuvre of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He sings Alfredo in La traviata by Verdi, Gabriele Adorno in Simon Boccanegra as well as the title role of Don Carlos by Verdi, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly and Rodolfo in La Bohème, Don José in Bizet's Carmen, Roméo in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, and the title roles in two French "Faust. A Tragedy" settings : Gounod's Faust and Berlioz La damnation de Faust. However, the singer cancelled his planned 2016 debut in the title role of Jacques Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann at the Staatstheater Stuttgart.^[1] The singer's excursions into the German genre are limited to Lyonel in Friedrich von Flotow's Martha. He sang Don Ottavio in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Alfred in Johann Strauss II's Die Fledermaus and Simon in Carl Millöcker's Der Bettelstudent.

His stage partners include Anja Harteros, Karita Mattila, Anna Netrebko, Angela Denoke, Eva-Maria Westbroek and Kristīne Opolais.

Since his debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich in 2009, the tenor has appeared at the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater, the Hamburg State Opera and the Staatstheater Stuttgart, the Cologne Opera and the Opernhaus Zürich, the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, the Opéra National de Paris as well as the Opéra de Nice and the Opéra de Lyon and several times at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, furthermore at the Finnish National Opera and Ballet in Helsinki, at the Royal Opera House Muscat in the Sultanate of Oman and at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow as well as at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and at La Scala in Milan.^[2]

In 2016, he took on the title role in a new production of Amleto by Arrigo Boito (libretto) and Franco Faccio (composition) at the Bregenz Festival. This was the Austrian premiere and at the same time the first European performance of the forgotten work in 145 years. Černoch was able to achieve great personal success, both as a performer and as a singer. Audiences cheered him, critics praised his portrayal of the sad Prince of Denmark.^[3][4][5] In 2016, he also sang his first Don Carlos at the Hamburg State Opera. In 2017, followed among others Vladimir in Prince Igo in Amsterdam, Lenski and Don Carlos at the Opéra Bastille Paris^[6] as well as in La damnation de Faust in Rome. In 2018, he made his role debut as Cavaradossi in Athens as well as his debut at the Vienna State Opera, again as Lenski in Eugene Onegin.^[7]

From 2019, debuts at the Royal Opera London and Metropolitan Opera New York are announced.^[8]

Concert

Černoch also sings regularly in the concert hall, having been invited by the BBC Proms, the Bergen Festival, the Verbier Festival, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Boston Symphony Orchestra. In Antwerp, Ghent and Stuttgart he sang the tenor solo in Verdi's Requiem, in London and Zurich thee Glagolitic Mass by Leoš Janáček, in Boston the choral symphony Kolokola op. 35 by Sergei Rachmaninoff. He works with conductors Daniel Barenboim, Jiří Bělohlávek, Charles Dutoit, John Eliot Gardiner, Daniele Gatti, Tomáš Hanus, Jakub Hrůša, Andris Nelsons, Kirill Petrenko, Simon Rattle, Gennady Rozhdestvensky and Vassily Sinaisky.^[9]