Roman Hoza Polyphemus

The baritone Roman Hoza studied in Brno and Vienna. He is a graduate of the prestigious Young Singers Project of the Salzburger Festspiele and the opera studios of the Opéra National de Lyon and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf.
 
In 2015, he made his debut at the National Theatre in Prague as Figaro in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, and he has been one of its regular guests ever since. He joined the ensemble of soloists at the National Theatre in Brno in September 2016, and since then has sung a number of key baritone parts there (for example, Belcore in Gaetano Donizetti’s opera L’Elisir d’Amore and Escamillo in Georges Bizet’s Carmen). He has performed as a guest for opera audiences in Vienna, Lyon, Salzburg, Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Cologne, Kaiserslautern, and other cities. Mozart and Rossini roles are a key part of his repertoire. In the 2019/1920 season, Roman Hoza returned to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein – first as a guest and a year later as a member of the permanent ensemble. In the 2023/2024 season, he will appear there as Taddeo in Gioacchino Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri, in Jerry Bock’s musical Fiddler on the Roof, and in the world premiere of Manfred Trojahn’s opera Septembersonate.
 
Roman Hoza is in great demand as a performer of the concert repertoire. In October 2023, he sang in Rome in Dvořák’s cantata The Spectre’s Bride, under the baton of Jakub Hrůša with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. During his collaboration with Václav Luks (Collegium 1704) and other ensembles focusing on early music (Collegium Marianum, Ensemble Inégal, Musica Florea, Czech Ensemble Baroque), he has appeared many times as a soloist, for example in Georg Frideric Handel’s oratorio The Messiah or Johann Sebastian Bach’s St John Passion.
 
Songs occupy a special place in his singing career. He is a winner of the song category of the International Antonín Dvořák Singing Competition in Karlovy Vary. Roman Hoza performed Robert Schumann’s cycle Dichterliebe at the Rudolfinum and in 2022 he sang Gustav Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer under the baton of Robert Kružík with the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra. In the summer of 2023, he presented song cycles by French composers (Maurice Ravel, Jaques Ibert, Francis Poulenc) in Düsseldorf.