Jozef Kundlák
Jozef Kundlak was born in 1956 in the Slovakian city of Bratislava. He studied at the local conservatory under Professor Ida Černecka.
He began his career at the Slovak National Theatre in 1983, but has also worked in Germany, Spain, Switzerland and Russia. He has performed in major concert halls and opera houses, including at the bicentenary of Mozart’s death when he performed the Requiem with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Riccardo Muti at Carnegie Hall and the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. Other masses and oratorios were also part of his programme. Kundlak has repeatedly performed at the National Theatre in Prague, where he took on the role of Montezuma in the world premiere of Lorenzo Ferrero’s opera La Conquista in 2005, for example. His large repertoire includes Werther in Jules Massenet’s opera of the same name, Belmonte in Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Alfredo in Verdi’s La traviata.
He has performed at the Bolshoi Theatre, La Scala in Milan, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Vienna State Opera, and many other opera houses in Europe and North America. He has worked with renowned conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Peter Schreier, Fabio Luisi and Christian Thielemann.
