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Ján Korecký, by Promoter, Štefan Kocán Kapos agency in Bratislava

After a year of great concert events, the Kapos agency is looking to maintain the same high level next year. The next featured star will be the famous Slovak bass, Štefan Kocán.

Štefan Kocán has performed at in Macbeth (Verdi), and Kecal in The Grand Inquisitor and Filippo in the world’s leading houses the Bartered Bride (Smetana). Don Carlos (Verdi). and sung productions for the MET live in HD series, but initially Štefan’s basso profondo voice Since making his debut at the he was not so well-known in and artistry impressed Ioan MET, Kocán has established Slovakia. This started to change Holender, the Director of the himself as an electric performer after his first concert organized State Opera and he both vocally and physically. Since by two agencies – Kapos and engaged him as a guest artist. his debut, he has returned to the House of Music. The Slovak public Štefan made his debut there MET every season performing became aware of the great as Il Commendatore with Edita Sparafucile in the Otto Schenk voice of Štefan Kocán and he Gruberová as Donna Anna in production of (Verdi), began to be a regular on the (Mozart) and from Ferrando in Il Trovatore (Verdi), Il Slovak concert circuit. The next 2004 until 2010 he performed Commendatore (Don Giovanni, As Masetto in Don Giovanni (Mozart) big step in Štefan Kocán’s career the roles of The Grand Inquisitor Mozart), Ramfis in Aida, at the Teatro a in © will be his concert on February 11, and Filippo in Don Carlos (Verdi), Sparafucile a second time in a archive SK 2015 in the Concert Hall of Slovak Sarastro in new production, Gremin in Eugen Philharmonic in Bratislava. (Mozart), Padre Guardiano in La Onegin (Tchaikovsky), and Khan Forza del Destino (Verdi), Banco Konchak in Prince Igor (Borodin). Štefan Kocán was born into a in Macbeth (Verdi) and Rai- Kocán’s performances at the MET music-loving family in Trnava, mondo in Lucia di Lammermoor have been met with great critical Slovakia. He studied classical (Verdi) with . acclaim. voice at the University of Music in Bratislava and later at the Then came Kocán’s American Štefan Kocán’s concert on Conservatory of the City of debut at the February 11, 2015 will include the Vienna under the legendary as Il Re in Aida (Verdi) in the most famous bass operatic arias Russian bass, Yevgeny 2009/10 season and also other and is sure to be one of the big Nesterenko. After finishing his engagements at the Lyric Opera highlights of the 2014/15 season. studies at the conservatory, of Chicago and the Los Angeles he sang at the Landestheater Philharmonic. In the 2011/12 in Linz, , where he season, Štefan Kocán was invited Upcoming concerts sang leading bass roles such to make his debut at La Scala as 11.2.2015 as Sarastro in The Magic Masetto in the season-opening Great Slovak Voices Flute (Mozart), Filippo in Don production of Don Giovanni, Štefan Kocán Carlos (Verdi), Osmin in The featuring Anna Netrebko, Bryn Abduction from the Seraglio Terfel and Peter Mattei. In the 16.6.2015 (Mozart), Mephisto in Faust 2012/13 season, he returned to World Opera Stars (Gounod), Raimondo in Lucia di sing Banco in Macbeth and then Joseph Calleja Lammermoor (Donizetti), Banco in the 2013/14 season he sang

In the role of Sparafucile (Verdi, Rigoletto) at the Metropolitan opera in New York

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